History of changes for passwords and logins?
Hello all,
I have a password that I generated that has been used to secure PDF documents with sensitive data. The display for this password (it's saved as a login) indicates that it was created on March 12, 2012, and last modified on December 22, 2013. Is there anyway to find out if the password was actually modified or changed between those times? I've noticed that it's 24-characters long now (as opposed to 25), and I have reference PDFs I've been trying to open with no luck.
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Not sure if this is needed, but I sync to Dropbox, I'm running Version 5.1 from the Mac App Store, and I'm running 10.10.2 on my 2011 Macbook Air.
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There are really on two ways you're going to be able to find "old" passwords. I suspect from what you say you've already looked in the obvious place (show previously used passwords under the relevant item in the main app). The other (outside) possibility is that you might find something in your Passwords category—although I rather doubt that as it's really used only as a place to store generated passwords which are not linked specifically to a saved login item.
Stephen
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You know that's what I found puzzling. Despite a later date of modification, I did not see an option to show previously used passwords. Only to "show web form details" and that appears to have the same password information as the login itself.
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Hi @jameel,
As you've stored this password in a Login item then it should record any changes to a password (a feature unique to Login items). Now if there isn't a show previously used passwords button underneath the show web form details one then that's 1Password's way of saying the password hasn't changed since the item was created. It only shows that button if there is a password history.
I don't know if it makes a difference or not but the password history is only regarding the built-in password field of a Login item. If you have created a custom field and set it to the password type so it is normally concealed, editing that won't create a password history.
About the only thing I can suggest trying is a much older backup, see if that reveals anything useful.
Now obviously you don't want to lose anything in your current vault so the first thing you'd want to do is create a completely up-to-date backup of your vault as it stands now. To do this you would go into 1Password's preferences and switch to the Backup tab. In there you would click on the Backup Now button and that will create a snapshot of right now.
Still in the Backup tab, if you select a much older backup, one that you believe should hold the correct data you will find the Restore button is now enabled. You'll have to go through the steps of restoring the backup and please note that if you have changed your Master Password then it was the Master Password at the time of the backup, not your current one. With the backup restored you can check to see if the Login item differs at all.
With either the password located or your current password confirmed, you can go through the steps again to restore the newest backup, the one you created just moments ago.
One gotcha from restoring a backup to be aware of is that all syncing is disabled as a result. It's a safety feature and a sensible one as you may not want your old vault overwriting the sync data or the sync data overwriting the restored vault (in fact it's highly likely you don't want 1Password making that decision). So if you have syncing before then you would need to re-enable it.
If you have any questions regarding any of this please do ask before following the steps. Say you create the up-to-date backup but you have doubts - stop at that point and let us know what you're seeing and why you think something has gone wrong. Fingers crossed you find the 25th character of your password!
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