How do I un-merge vaults?

meganjm

We share a primary vault and 4 x secondary vaults across our business, all synced via dropbox. At some point in the last week, something happened that now means all of our vaults seem to have merged into the Primary vault. We purposely want to keep the information separate, obviously, and need to get the information out of the primary vault as quickly and easily as possible. I'm hoping this won't be a manual process - is there anyway to revert to a previous state? I'm also mindful that we might lose anything that's been entered since then, so is there anyway to flag new entries too?

Thanks!

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1Password Version: 4.4.3
Extension Version: 4.4.3
OS Version: OS X Yosemite
Sync Type: Dropbox
Referrer: forum-search:vaults merged by mistake

rudy

Hi @meganjm,

Is it possible that you're now running 1Password 6? 1Password 6 has a faux vault called All Vaults that displays the contents of all the vaults that are loaded. If this isn't the case then you would need to identify which items in the primary vault are incorrectly there.

1. select that group of items
2. right or control click on them
3. locate the vault you want them to go to at the bottom of the contextual menu
4. choose move to in that vault's submenu

Let us know if you need any further help!

Rudy

meganjm

HI @rudy

No, we're definitely all using the same version of 1Password (it's shared across a team of 10) as we had trouble upgrading so stuck with what worked.

We've been using 1Password for years so we have a huge amount of data in here. I'm hoping to avoid a manual process (e.g. selecting all the incorrectly located items) unless that's absolutely the only way we can do it. I'm also keen to find out how this could have happened - like I said, we share these vaults across 10 different users so I'd like to be able to educate the team on how to use 1Password correctly so this doesn't happen again.

Megan

AGAlumB

@meganjm: Another option, depending on how extensively you use 1Password and make changes on a daily basis, is restoring from a backup from before you sync'd different vaults with each other.

In this case, be sure to make a fresh backup and disable sync first, just in case the results aren't what you expect. If you have a single computer which normally accesses all of the vaults in question, that would be a good test case. There may be a single backup that gets you roughly where you want to be, and if a single computer has access to all the affected vaults, a single restore may put you in a position to sync all of the data to the other devices the way you want it. Without more information t's hard to go into specifics, but hopefully that makes sense.

And going forward, you may want to consider 1Password Teams. Since it doesn't involve any sync setup, it's actually impossible to have a mishap of this sort. Granted, people can still put data in the wrong vault if they have access to more than one, but crossing two (or more) vaults completely without someone manually copying/moving everything from one into another.

Let me know if you have any questions about my scenario above. :)

meganjm

@brenty Thanks! 1Password Teams looks like exactly what we need - we'll move over to this to avoid these hijinks in the future :-)

khad

Please do let us know how it goes, @meganjm. We are always here to help.