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Hi @bearfan, my pleasure! And it's great to hear that you're enjoying 1Password - thanks for sharing that feedback with us. 😄

OK, to your question - and I apologize if this goes a bit long, I'd like to make sure we're addressing your concerns!

What application, if any, may I use to open the 1PUX file into a readable format?? Does that exist?

Great question. 1PUX is useful for transferring to other password managers, should you decide to make that move at some point (our philosophy is that your data is yours, and we have no interest in "locking in" customers by making it hard to leave). To get a little tech-y for a moment: this .1PUX format, while not as familiar as, say, a .EXE file, is structured as a JSON file, which means it will be familiar to developers at other app makers. They know how to create an import feature in their apps that can support this, because JSON is a common format for structuring data.

my old school thought process still wants to store it in a physical safe - in a readable format.

I do get that. The closest solution I can think of would be to export to .CSV, and then print that as you would any normal text file. Depending on what you're storing in 1Password, that could well be sufficient, especially if you're storing mostly password and login items.

However, .CSV doesn't contain all your 1Password data, because it's now possible to store data in 1Password that goes beyond the limits of that format. So here are a couple extra suggestions for how we might address this, and I'll hope to explain a bit about where your data lives and considerations for accessing it.

How to Ensure Access to your 1Password Data (in most situations)

Let's call this Scenario 1: in which you might want to ensure emergency access to your data, which is synced through 1Password.com, or to provide access to someone else in an emergency.

In this case, as @"ali.hazime" mentioned, we recommend printing out a copy of your Emergency Kit, writing your account password on it, and then storing it in that safe you mentioned.

Why would that make sense, in this scenario? Because the Emergency Kit gives you the ability to access your data from any new device. 👍 It essentially "sets you up" on that new device, and you can access your data from there as you would from whatever device you normally use. You or your chosen person can use it to regain access to all your data, independent of the device you're using at the time.

But what if there's a more dire situation?

How to Ensure Access to Your 1Password Data (If the Internet Explodes)

I'm joking about the internet exploding. But there is a real concern here, among us old-school types, which we recognize and respect: what if internet access is out for a period of time? What if our servers go offline, or some other unforseen thing happens? What if you are just personally in a situation in which you need to access your 1Password data, but you don't have wifi?

This is why your devices act as a kind of backup-in-place, and provide a source of redundancy for your data. Here's what I mean.

When you sign into the 1Password app for the first time on a device, a "local database" is created on that device (it's just a text database file, basically, that we encrypt with some formidable math). And importantly, that database file is what you unlock when you sign into the app. This has a couple implications:

1. You have a distinct copy of your data on every device where you've signed into the app
2. You access these databases by unlocking your app as normal, and you don't need to be connected to the internet to do it

For this reason, using 1Password on a couple different devices can provide a safeguard against data loss (and we do recommend it, as a general practice). So in the case of "what if the internet explodes?", what you should have to do is: nothing, because your data already lives safely on your devices. And when our servers do come back online, your app will sync to them and your data will be newly synced across devices. But you never lose access to your data in the meantime.

I hope this provides some helpful context, and we're always happy to work with you to make sure that you can safeguard and access your data. I'll look forward to your reply! 😃