Double click attachment should copy it before it's opened

asbjornu

I have a couple of Software License entries in my 1Password vault that has zip archive attachments. When I double click these, they open in The Unarchiver, which then extracts the archive's content alongside the zip file and then deletes the zip file. Since 1Password does not copy (to ~/Downloads or a temporary folder) the double clicked file before opening it, The Unarchiver ends up removing the zip file from 1Password's vault. For other types of attachments, like PDF files, this is not a problem, but for archives it is.

I hope you can figure out a solution to this. For me, copying the file to ~/Downloads before opening it, would be a good solution. That's how it works for most e-mail clients, for instance, which I find analogous to 1Password's attachments.

Stephen_C

You can drag and drop attachments (to the Desktop or Downloads, for example) from 1P. Does that help?

Stephen

asbjornu

That both works and helps and is an ok workaround. But I only found out that I needed to perform that workaround after discovering that I had deleted the attachment from 1Password, which for many people doing the same thing and being less technical than me, might be too late. Attachments within the 1Password vault should in practice be read-only. Double-clicking an attachment should do the least surprising and most intuitive thing, which in my opinion would be to copy the attachment before opening it in an application that potentially may destroy it.

Jasper

Hi @asbjornu,

I'm not running into the issue you described when unzipping an attachment. When I double click a ZIP file stored as an attachment in 1Password, it is unzipped and displayed in Finder. The original attachment in 1Password remains there.

When you double-click an attachment, 1Password will decrypt it and store a temporary copy of it on disk.

[Deleted User]

I've tested it too and I'm running into the same problem. Could it be that the permissions are somehow overridden?

littlebobbytables

Hi @Eitot‌

What can't do any harm is to open Disk Utility /Applications/Utilities and try a Verify Disk Permissions on your main drive. If it finds something you can run Repair Disk Permissions. Those options should be visible if you select your main drive in the sidebar and are in the First Aid tab.

Let us know if it makes any difference.