Re-merge vault that got split into iCloud and Dropbox?

iotashan
iotashan
Community Member
in iOS

I've always used Dropbox to keep my devices synced. It seems that with switching to 1Password 5 on iOS, it automatically, without asking me, switched my vault syncing to iCloud on said devices. Now, I've got the iCloud and the Dropbox vault. I've made changes in both, before I figured out what was really going on.

Now, how do I reconcile these? It sounds like I could use FileMerge or similar to compare vaults (I'm a programmer, I understand the risks), but how do I get access to the vault that's in iCloud? I checked ~/Library/Mobile Documents but I only see Numbers, Pages and TextEdit. I'm assuming all the iOS apps' storage areas in iCloud are sandboxed.

iOS 8 / 1Pass 5.4.1
OS X / 1Pass 5.3.1
Windows 10 / most recent version of 1Password 4

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  • littlebobbytables
    littlebobbytables
    1Password Alumni

    Hi @iotashan,

    I think the best way forward would be to create an up-to-date backup in both 1Password for Mac and 1Password for iOS, disable iCloud Sync and then enable Dropbox Sync. 1Password's vault merge should handle everything at this point but if not then you know you have your backups to revert to.

    If you've edited item A only in one location then the newer one should take president over the older one, no matter where the newer or older one came from. If you have items that have been edited in both locations then 1Password takes no chances and places one set of data in the appropriate fields and the other set in a custom section titled Conflicts. At this point you can then decide which is correct and manually edit the item.

    Gaining access to the sync data in iCloud isn't possible as far as I know and it will be an encrypted database anyway. So in this instance access probably wouldn't help much. The reason I suspect access isn't possible is CloudKit, the framework that powers the new iCloud Sync communicates in terms of records with Apple's servers so I don't know if anything is stored on disk on your Mac.

    Hopefully my suggestion will help but if it doesn't please do let us know :smile:

  • iotashan
    iotashan
    Community Member

    Sounds like a plan. I'll give it a try, see what happens.

  • Ben
    Ben

    Thanks! Please let us know how it turns out. :)

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