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Quick Access to unlock a secure usb?
Hi,
I have a USB drive that is encrypted by the Mac OS. When I try to enter my password, sometimes I can open Quick Access, but it has no access to fill in the password. I can copy and paste it into the window, but it's not an automatic entry. Sometimes the program TextExpander won't let 1Password's hot keys work to access Quick Access. If you have a workaround for that it would also help, but that's not as important.
Is there no way for automatic entry of the password? A photo is attached of the window.
Thanks!
1Password Version: 1Password for Mac 8.10.0
Extension Version: 2.7.0
OS Version: 10.15.7
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- 1P_Dave
Moderator
Hello danielrosehill​! 👋
Thanks for the suggestion! 1Password is designed to never fill your login credentials into any website/app but the website/app that matches the website address saved for that login item. It's an important phishing protection that you benefit from when you use 1Password to fill your login credentials.
While an automatic method to try to "guess" the correct website address for each login might be convenient, it also comes with the risk of the wrong website being set which could lead to you bring tricked into filling your login credentials into a malicious website or just sharing them with the wrong website.
That being said, I've passed your post along internally so that the team can consider these sorts of problems and how best to solve them in the future.
-Dave
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- clarinoFrequent Contributor
It's a nice idea but the scenario is rare enough that I question whether it's worth the effort because it is not trivial to implement. I can see so many challenging cases and the need for many behavior preferences. Plus there are so many other things that I'd give higher priority.
A variant that I would be more willing to support: You get to a website/app and 1P doesn't recognize the connection so you are forced to manually search 1P for the matching entry yourself. At that point, there should be a button "Explain why 1P couldn't match this entry." and options to accept a variety of reasons why 1P should match. Examples:
- Fix URL recognition
- Fix app recognition
- Fix entry field recognition
Even without the auto-fix idea, I'd love if 1P could at least explain to me why it is failing to match an entry that looks like an obvious match to me.