Embarrassingly Slow on the PC

Hi @FuriousFan,

Thanks for writing in.

Are you using 1Password 4? If yes, that's unfortunately normal if you're using the OPVault format and the only option right now is to switch back to Agile Keychain, which 1Password 4 is more tuned for. It is the random I/O performance that matter the most, not the CPU or GPU as 1Password 4 doesn't use them to decrypt data. It's not 700 simple data items, it's 700 heavily-encrypted items that it needs to parse, fully decrypt and then loaded into the program's UI at once when you unlock initially. 700 is actually a large database, not a small one for 1Password 4.

The good news is that this has been rebuilt completely in 1Password 6 as we're using a modern and efficient database structure that will allow us to parallelize data and UI threads separately, not to mention run smarter data queries. It already can unlock 20K-item database faster than 1Password 4 can unlock 500-item database with the same hardware spec.

Unfortunately, we don't have a timeframe on when 1Password 6 will be available for local vault customers, it is already available for 1Password.com customers and has read-only support for local vaults but it is not fully complete yet. We will release more details as soon as we can.

If you want to try it, you can find 1Password 6 here: https://1Password.com/downloads/ Again, OPVault support is read-only at the moment and 1Password 6 has missing features you'd expect to see.

Hey @FuriousFan,

Thank you for elaborating. When switching views, 1Password 4 has to prepare the overviews and decrypt data, which creates the load you're seeing.
We are very sorry for the inconvenience this is causing you.

Cheers,

Alex