Upgrade questions

ChadM

I was running version 3.8.22 (build 32010) Web build and have upgraded to the current App store build. I am currently using Dropbox for sync and have some iOS 8 devices that have current release installed. I tried this upgrade on one Mac and in the apps folder I have a 1Password application (old version) and a 1Password folder holding the new version. It works but looks messy. I am also wondering if I have the most current encryption on the PW data. Would it be better to export in the interchange format delete both versions and reinstall then import the data to resolve the install path issue and ensure the DB is encrypted in the best format? This DB originally had a PW that I now consider to be too simple and was created on a much earlier version than 3.3.22.

Drew_AG

Hi @ChadM,

If I understand your description, it sounds like you have two versions of 1Password installed on your Mac in the following locations:

/Applications/1Password.app (version 3, from our web store)

/Applications/1Password/1Password.app (version 5, from the Mac App Store)

Is that correct? If so, it's not a problem at all. The reason it happened is because the Mac App Store detected a different app with the same name in the Applications folder. The Mac App Store version does not replace the web store version during installation, so it created a new folder called 1Password and put version 5 in there.

As I said, that won't cause a problem for you. However, if all your data is now in 1Password 5, you can certainly delete the 1Password 3 app, then move the 1Password 5 app from Applications/1Password/ to Applications/.

The other issue you asked about is that you think your master password is too weak and you'd like to change it to a stronger one. You can change your master password at any time from Preferences > Security in the main 1Password app, but as you may already know, that won't actually re-encrypt the data in your vault.

It will take some extra steps to re-encrypt your 1Password vault data, and it sounds like you understand the general concept: export your data from 1Password 5 for Mac to a .1pif file, reset 1Password so you can start over with a brand new vault (which will generate brand new encryption keys), and import your data from the .1pif file to the new vault. If you use 1Password on more than one Mac, you'll also need to reset 1Password on the other Macs, then sync the re-encrypted data from the first Mac. On your iOS devices, you'll need to delete & reinstall 1Password and set it up to sync.

You can find a list of specific steps to do all that in this post.

If you're interested in reading some more technical information about all this, you can take a look at this post.

Hopefully it all makes sense, but if you have any questions about that, please let us know.

ChadM

Answered my question exactly. Thanks.

Jasper

On behalf of Drew, you're welcome. Please let us know if you have any other questions! :)