sharing a license with my wife
I'm sure there's an easy answer... it's just not obvious. I bought 1password Mac 5 from the App Store. How do I share that license with my wife? I'm certain I can't just copy the app to her Mac, can I?
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I presume you mean the Mac App Store. You and your wife can share the application in one of two ways. If you both use the same Apple ID for your purchases, she should be able to download a copy to her computer by looking in the Purchases tab of the Mac App Store and downloading a copy. If you don't use the same Apple ID, you can use Family Sharing if you both are using OS X 10.10 (Yosemite). You would need to establish a family group and be sure you are both members of the group and both are using the same credit card for doing business with Apple.
Since you say you bought 1Password 5, that does mean you are using Yosemite and that Family Sharing is an option for you. That version only works on Yosemite
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Got it... thanks! Guess I need to upgrade her to Yosemite.
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Well, if perchance you share the same Apple ID for your purchases, you could look in the Puchases tab in the Mac App Store on her machine and likely be able to download version 4, if that's of interest.
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At the moment I'm using the latest trial version of 1Password5 (5.0.2) downloaded from your own website on my Mac Mini (running 10.10.1) and the free version of 1Password from the iOS app store (5.1.2) on my iPhone 5S (running 8.1.2). My wife has an older iMac (mid 2007 Intel Core 2 Duo 4Gb, 667MHz running 10.9.5). She also has a new iPhone 6Plus. My preference is to sync 1Password via iCloud, is that an option for us? And if so, what do we need to do (I'd like to install the correct versions of 1Password and OSX without taking a big performance hit). Thanks in advance.
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Correction - the iMac mentioned above is the aluminum one and the FSB runs at 800 MHz not 667.
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hawkmoth, I use a different Apple ID than she does, but I'm installing Yosemite on her Mac now so we can do Family Sharing.
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Hi @DrDan,
Unfortunately iCloud Sync won't be an option in that scenario. The 10.9.5 Mac would need to run 1Password 4, which cannot iCloud Sync with 1Password 5 as they both use different iCloud technologies (MobileDocuments vs CloudKit).
In your case the best and easiest option would be to sync via Dropbox. Dropbox syncing provides a lot of flexibility that can't be had with iCloud.
Even if the 10.9.5 Mac were upgraded to 10.10, it's likely that iCloud Sync would still not be an option. iCloud Sync requires that all devices be signed into the same Apple ID account. Since you're talking about multiple people, I assume you each have your own Apple ID, and in that case it doesn't work.
I hope this helps.
Rick
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