Make different vaults operate independently?
Is there a way to make various vaults lock and unlock independently? I find the "convenient" behavior of linking my secondary vaults to my primary vault extremely frustrating. Like another user who posted about this, my natural inclination was to make a couple special vaults for work-related and financial things which are "more secure" because I don't tend to unlock them for day to day things. Unfortunately, after organizing my passwords, I discovered that this means my "more secure" vaults actually are unlocked any time I use my primary vault. I don't really want any vault to unlock any other -- I want them to be independent.
"No problem," thought I, "I'll just make my day-to-day vault a secondary vault too, so the 'primary' vault goes largely unused and I have three secondary vaults (day-to-day, financial, and work)." Unfortunately, this causes another very frustrating behavior, which is that whenever I switch secondary vaults, the one I'm switching away from becomes locked.
Is there any way to simply have my vaults all behave completely independently?
1Password Version: 5.3.2
Extension Version: Not Provided
OS Version: OSX 10.10.4
Sync Type: folder
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It seems like due to this design, I'm also unable to create new vaults or copy items from one vault to another without unlocking the primary vault. Is it not possible to have more than one vault that's designated a "primary" vault?
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Hello @ntucker,
The primary vault goes all the way back to at least 1Password 3 if not maybe older. When we added secondary vault support it was very much with the idea of sharing subsets of data rather than as a logical or security divide. As all of our users were already accustomed to the idea of a single Master Password to unlock their data we expanded on this by having the primary vault store the secondary vaults' encryptions keys in the primary vault. The design is so deeply ingrained in 1Password for Mac and iOS that it would be no simple task to change. I'm not saying that means no but the more complex a task is does have a real impact on any decision around it for the obvious reasons.
So at the moment you can either unlock your primary vault which unlocks all vaults or you can unlock a single vault which as you've discovered locks if you switch away. I shall note your interest but sadly I can't promise that such a feature will make it. We try not to make any promises that might lead to disappointment later if we're unable to. I wish I could have brought a more positive response - sorry.
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