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Anonymous
4 years ago

Duplicate copies confuses 1Password

On the Mac 1Password stops working with its help applications if there is a copy on another disk as can commonly occur with another backup. Agilebits helped me with this months ago and I fortunate...
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Jack_P_1P
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4 years ago

Hey @SteveLazarus:

Thanks for clarifying. Generally speaking, we'd recommend excluding the 1Password app itself from your backups. macOS has been known to start a copy of application from a different partition, and this can cause issues. Out of an abundance of caution, we recommend not backing up the 1Password app itself to Time Machine or similar. You can always download a replacement copy of 1Password from our website.

Jack