With dropbox sync, it seems to create a lot of churn when I log in on a new mac

mnadig

I just came over from another product and have been using 1Password successfully on my Mac (10.11) and iPhone 5s syncing with dropbox. Today, I installed 1Password on my macbook air and noticed that it created a lot of churn in dropbox. This was surprising that a lot of files seemed to get touched just by logging into the vault for the first time on the new mac. Is this expected?
Thank you.

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1Password Version: 5.4
Extension Version: 4.4.3.90 on chrome
OS Version: OSX 10.11
Sync Type: Dropbox
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Drew_AG

Hi @mnadig,

I'm happy to hear you've switched to 1Password! :)

Today, I installed 1Password on my macbook air and noticed that it created a lot of churn in dropbox.

Can you please elaborate on this? What sort of "churn" did you notice? I'm not sure if I understand exactly what you mean, so if you can give us some more details about that, we should have a better idea about what happened.

Also, was Dropbox already installed on that Mac, or had you just installed it? Did you choose to sync your vault from Dropbox during the initial setup of 1Password, or did you create a new, empty vault and then set that up to sync with your vault Dropbox?

Thanks in advance!

mnadig

Thanks for the reply Drew. I'll try to elaborate:
First Mac already had 1Password on it, already to set to sync w/ Dropbox. I also have 1P on my iPhone syncd via dropbox as well.

On my second Mac I installed dropbox, signed in. I then installed 1Password and during the initial setup told it to sync from Dropbox, not create a new vault.

The churn I noticed was on my first Mac, the dropbox app was giving me notifications that a lot of files were updated. From memory, I believe these were all 1Password files.

Note: When I installed 1P on the new mac it was version 5.4. I noticed that the version I had on my first Mac was slightly older, so I upgraded it. Is it possible the version mismatch caused all of the passwords to get touched? Other theory is that first launch of 1Password with the existing vault triggered a backup and I was seeing the backup files in the 'churn'.

I've got a 3rd Mac I'm going to try this on and will report back what I see.

thank you.

littlebobbytables

Greetings @mnadig,

I've seen what you've reported happen each time I set up a new iOS device as the API we use there does seem to touch each and every file but I didn't think we were doing the same on the Mac. I just tested it and it didn't do it so I'll be curious to see what you find happens on the third Mac. It's puzzling for sure.

mnadig

I finally got around to getting 1Pass on the other Mac, and sync'd to dropbox - no churn. So, probably user error the first time. Thanks for all the help.

AGAlumB

No worries! It really can depend on a number of system and network factors, after all. But I'm glad to hear that it's working better for you now. We're here if you need us! :)