Question

"You can't edit this vault" Why?

Forum|Forum|8 months ago
October 21, 2025
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I have three vaults: Private, my main vault and Shared.

Private is out of date and mostly has the same passwords as my main vault. I moved to the other vault because I can't edit the "Private" vault.

Now, passwords from both vaults show up in searches without any indication of which vault they are from. I would like to keep the passwords in case the copy paste operation wasn't fully completed and just make the Private vault inactive as far as search and autofill is considered.

Judging by previous threads, there is really nothing to be done about it, the Private vault will continue its zombie existence and all I can do is to delete all its content. I have checked the website and the only thing I can do is mark it "safe for travel". But the previous threads I found were always trying to solve a different problem and no one actually said whether the vault is just there forever unable to change or if there is a way to change it.

Am I correct in this assumption that it is immortal and does anyone know why that is? I'm fairly sure this vault was imported from an old local vault, is that it?

Second question: is excluding a vault from search possible?

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SamSamSamAuthor

Forgot to say I know I can turn off vaults in the browser extension, that helps a lot, but doesn't solve the search issue.

1P_Dave

1Password Employee

Hello @SamSamSam! 👋

Thanks for the question! Each family member in a 1Password Families membership has their own Private vault which contains items that only they can see. Unlike other vaults the name of the Private vault cannot be changed and the vault can't be deleted.

The Private vault is unique because it can't be shared with anyone else and your family organizer isn't able to manage this vault.

I have three vaults: Private, my main vault and Shared.

Is there a reason why you don't use the Private vault as your main vault? Why create an entirely new vault? Are you sharing your "main vault" with another family member? I'd like to better understand your use case and share it with the team internally.

If you would like to hide the "Private" vault from all of the 1Password apps then you can use Travel Mode to do so (as you mentioned): Use Travel Mode to remove vaults from your devices when you travel

-Dave

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SamSamSamAuthor

Turning off ”safe for travel” did not hide the Private vault from my apps. Incidentally, ”Safe for travel” would be a much better name for the feature than ”Travel mode”. It’s not even much longer, but clearly indicates what it does.

Why I don’t use the Private vault as my main vault?

The Private vault is unchangeable, so it can’t be customized at all – no icon to help identify it at a glance, no changing the ambiguous name to something more informative. It seems like a remnant that got left behind when new features were added, not something you should use as your default option. It’s like a social media profile that is forced to use the generic icon as the profile pic and be named ”user”.

If it’s supposed to be used as your main vault, allowing the name, icon and description to be changed would go a long way to show that it’s a fully functional part of the system.

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