Export to PDF Removed in Version 8?

Hi MikeA01730 ,

Perhaps I can help clarify some points.

First, the link you reference is incorrect in several ways. It gives a basic overview of 1PUX, but many details are incorrect or absent.

And for security-sake, I'll preface... Exporting to an unencrypted format is risky, and should be done as rarely as possible. Users significantly under-estimate or are unaware of the various risks.

• CSV exports, of course, do not include Attachments or Documents, so these are never "backups".

• The Print to PDF feature in earlier versions of 1Password of course was also not a backup - it too, like CSV, was quite lossy. And it was terribly space-inefficient (a document could be 100's of printed pages). To be pedantic, PDF is not an export format, but rather a rendering of each item using a 1Password-designed layout and "printed" using the OS' native PDF rendering engine. With really large or particular documents, this could also generate corrupted / unreadable PDFs.

• 1PIF exports will export Attachments into an attachments folder inside the .1pif folder, but does not export Documents. Any items in the export that have a Related Items link to a Document will lose that linkage, since Documents are not exported. Also the new Medical Record and API Credentials do not re-import into those categories, but rather as Secure Notes. So these are not "backups".

• 1PUX exports include Attachments, Documents, and custom icons, and an import will include these. However, when you export a 1PUX, all vaults in the account are included, and upon import all of those exported vaults are imported into new vaults with the identical names but prefixed by "Imported " (e.g. Personal -> Imported Personal). Also, all items will have their modified dates set to the time of import. The Attachments, Documents and custom icons are stored inside the 1PUX zip file in the files folder, and these items are referenced by the export.data file inside the 1PUX. It also appears that the vaults sharing and permissions are not the same as the originals (and this makes sense since these are new vaults with new items). You will also lose item change history (which is stored only on the 1Password servers). 1PUX is as close to a backup as you have, but it is not lossless. So I would not call it a "complete" backup, and as per my preface, it is probably not a good idea of getting into the habit of exporting / re-importing.

I'll step aside to allow the 1Password support folks address the other details.