Too many backups

fccjr

I am using 1Password 5 Version 5.1.BETA-6 (510006) Agile Beta. OS 10.10.1.
I have over 3GB of backups on my little 120 GB SSD.

2.2 GB of them are in a subfolder in the library>application support folder called 1Password. It has 7 folders.

Over 800 MB are in a subfolder of 1Password4 also in the Application Support folder. It has 6 folders.

[There is a tiny third folder called 1Passwd with 4 folders, none of the for backups]

Both have backups dated today. The larger one has them going back to 2008. The smaller one is only this year. When I look at backups in preferences it sees the ones in the 1Password4 folder (I am pretty sure. It was created 5 minutes after the one in the 1Password folder.)

I use time machine. I also clone my drive and rotate the clones to an offsite safe deposit box. I assume I can delete the 1Password folder. Is that correct? Can I also delete about half of the backups in the 1Password4 folder? Since 2007 or 2008 I don't think I have needed a backup.

Thanks

littlebobbytables

Hi @fccjr‌

The 1Password folder belongs to 1Password 3 so if you don't use our older version any more then you're safe to remove it once we've confirmed that 1Password 5 is backing up to it's default location.

Go into 1Password's preferences and switch to the Backup tab. Click the Show Files button and it will open a Finder window where your backup files are. For you it should be somewhere in your ~/Library/Application Support/1Password 4/ folder. As long as that's the case you're fine.

I'm going to link you to the guide for uninstalling 1Password 3. I'm suspecting you still have some remnants in there. So as you've probably removed the program already you may way to make your way through the manual guide to pick out the bits left.

As for your 1Password 4 folder, that seems fairly big, how large is a single backup file? If you have a lot of entries and attachments in your vault(s) each one can be big which might explain it.