Sharing a vault - is OPVault possible or is .agilekeychain required?

StevenS_TheMantor

Hello,

I'm stumped. I'm running a test of a vault with two items in it to share with someone. I've followed the directions on the link below (#1) and when I get to step 4, it references the .agilekeychain format type. The format type that I am getting is .OPVault

1: https://support.1password.com/guides/mac/share-a-vault.html

I just found this information (#2) about the two types of data formats: OPVault and Agile Keychain. Clearly mine is defaulting to OPVault.

2: https://support.1password.com/switch-to-opvault/mac.html

Are the directions #1 specifying the .agilekeychain outdated? Or is this the only format type allowed for sharing a vault?

Or put another way, can I share a vault with the OPVault format? And if not, is it:

• less secure to use .agilekeychain?
• how do I convert from OPVault format to .agilekeychain (I think I saw a way to do this in #2)

Thank you,
Steven

rickfillion

Hi @StevenS_TheMantor,

Thanks for writing in. The documentation is out of date, and I'm going to file a bug to have that updated. Where you see references to agilekeychain, you should see opvault these days.

OPVault and AgileKeychain are both equivalent as far as what you can do with them goes. If you'd like a description of how the two differ, I'm happy to give you all of the nitty gritty details... but the reality is that as a user you should be able to treat the two as equivalent.

I hope this helps.

Rick

StevenS_TheMantor

Awesome. Thank you for the response. All good with the vault share now.

Ben

Thanks for the update @StevenS_TheMantor! Glad to hear you're up and running. If we can be of further assistance, please don't hesitate to contact us.

Ben

t2clej

my vaults are still agilekeychain. should I take the time to convert them to opvaults?
if I do, I should probably convert whole family as we have 1 or 2 shared vaults at this time, right?
Thank you.

chadseld

It's up to you. There is no pressing reason to update .agilekeychain vaults to .opvault, but there is no harm in updating either. The primary difference is the way URLs are handled as unencrypted vs encrypted metadata. You can read more here https://blog.agilebits.com/2015/10/19/when-a-leak-isnt-a-leak/

t2clej

Is there any issue having some vaults opvaults vs agilekeychain? I have 1password with 4 shared/secondary vaults. Does it matter if I convert 1 or 2 and not the others?

ag_kevin

Hi @t2clej ,

That will be fine. Each sync file, be it agilekeychain or opvault, is self contained so you can have a mix of both.

Cheers,
Kevin