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How to export vault while offline?
As part of my disaster recovery testing, I attempted to bring up an old machine and export my passwords. It was last synced a month ago. I kept the machine offline to simulate 1Password being unavail...
1P_Dave
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ModeratorHello kogir! 👋
Thank you for reaching out. The 1Password app has to be online for an export to take place for two main reasons:
- Not all data may be available locally. Things such as attached files and Document items are fetched and cached locally "on demand" when you first view them on a particular device. When you export your account, the 1Password app will download every file and Document item so that it's included in the export even if you've never viewed certain files or Document items on that device before.
- For security and compliance reasons, export actions need to be auditable as part of the Activity Log feature available in 1Password Business. An offline export would allow someone to just disconnect their device and export data without this action ever being recorded, making the Activity Log inaccurate and incomplete.
That being said, I can see how an option to allow exporting of data even when offline would be useful for things like disaster recovery and I've passed your comments along to the team internally.
-Dave
ref: dev/core/core#33645
ref: PB-43707445
