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Former Member
2 years agoHas support for viewing documents offline been implemented yet for 1PW 8?
In https://1password.community/discussion/133135/see-downloaded-passport-and-travel-docs-into-the-document-section-offline thread from last year, it was stated that attached documents are not availab...
Former Member
2 years ago1Password 8 fetches attachments and documents when needed.
Well, 1Password 8 tries to fetch the attachments and documents when needed, but if you don't have a working internet connection or the 1PW server is not reachable, you simply can't access the documents. That is the whole point of this thread.
I get that 99% of the time, this is not an issue and people won't notice this limitation, but in the rare cases when they do run into this limitation, they can be in for a nasty surprise. In a worst case scenario, where Agile Bits is successfully hit by an APT group, a rogue employee, or any unknown event that we currently lack the imagination to anticipate, those documents could even be completely lost forever! Again, I know that this happening is not particularly likely, but I find "trust us, it will probably be fine" just really problematic in the context of secure document storage.
I can understand that for larger Teams who attach many documents, an option to opt-out of local document storage could be useful, but for the vast majority of users -- most of whom are currently blissfully unaware of this risk -- attached documents really should be stored/synced locally. This is even more true in light of the fact that the official https://support.1password.com/files/ for attached files does not even contain a small footnote about the fact that "so they’re always available when you need them" is actually not completely true. If you are worried about metered connections, you could simply do what apps such as podcast clients do and only download new and changed attachments when the device is connected to Wi-Fi.
Since (temporary) caching after viewing a document is already working, it seems like you have already done most of the work needed to re-implement reliable local document storage. I really, really hope it will be implemented by the time the "classic" 1PW browser extension stops working. It would not only give peace of mind to people such as myself, who value control over the safety of their data, it would also spare others from unfortunate surprises when they discover that they can't access a document because they are without a working internet connection.