I love 1Password, but v8 has made me less productive

Hi Philip (@trauring),

Apologies this got missed when you originally posted it, thankfully the recent bumps have resurfaced it. Firstly, thanks for being a long time 1Password user and sharing your kind words and detailed feedback. I'll do my best to tackle these questions and concerns. 🙂

if my team account was shut down I would lose my private vault.

Since they're part of the same account in this case, you're correct. My recommendation here is to have an individual or family account of your own. You can use multiple 1Password accounts alongside each other in 1Password 8 and collections make it possible to view items from both simultaneously: Use collections to create custom groups of vaults

I also have no idea if my passwords are stored locally at all, or only in the cloud. Do I not have an encrypted copy on my computer?

To ensure you can still access your data while offline, there is a copy of it stored locally. While your data is stored both locally and in your 1Password account, the key to decrypt it never leaves your device. I'll link to some articles in case you're interested in reading more about our security model:

• Keep your secrets & passwords safe and secure
• About the 1Password security model

If I want a backup and generate a pux file, is that protected at all?

1PUX files are unencrypted and meant for export purposes. Our recommendation to "backup" your account is instead to safely store the credentials to access it using an Emergency Kit. Here's some additional information on both topics:

• About the 1Password Unencrypted Export format
• Get to know your Emergency Kit

when I create a password in a browser on my Mac (I use Brave, which uses the Chrome extension), it does not show up in 1Password on my Mac immediately.

Sorry to hear about this, it doesn't sound like expected behaviour and I'd be happy to do some additional troubleshooting with you to figure out what's going on. Let me know if you're still experiencing this and we'll dig deeper.

for some reason I'm asked on my Mac to enter my password at least every two weeks

Our original hope with this decision was that it would help avoid situations where folks forget their account passwords because they haven't used it in too long. I'm happy to share that this has been updated though and you now have more control over how frequently you need to enter your account password (while we're on this settings page, I'll also highlight where you can adjust your settings for Universal Clipboard):

If you'd still prefer to change your account password, you can do so on 1Password.com.

Perhaps the intention is that Quick Access is to be accessed via a keyboard combo, but even that doesn't help with quickly generating a password.

While Quick Access can be used with a mouse, I do personally find it faster to navigate with keyboard shortcuts and would recommend the same to others. We have several open feature requests that I think address your concerns here so I'll add votes on your behalf to them. In the meantime, you can generate a new password via the desktop app or browser extension.

In the desktop app, creating a new item with a password field will give you the option to generate a new password. After selecting one, you can then copy it to be used elsewhere:

In the 1Password browser extensions, you can access the password generator in the hamburger menu after clicking the 1Password icon in your browser's toolbar:

Editing your generating preferences from there, you'll also see an option to save those preferences as the default to be used for suggested passwords. These passwords will appear in line when registering new accounts and can be saved directly from there:

Let me know how that goes or if you have any questions along the way. Thanks again for your feedback!

@chinamax, I've added votes on your behalf to the same feature requests, thanks for letting me know you share these concerns. 👍🏻

shemphill, I've also added you to our internal tracker for the drag and drop feature. I can understand where this would be useful and appreciate you letting me know it's important to you.

ref: IDEA-I-298
ref: IDEA-I-1465
ref: IDEA-I-1967
ref: IDEA-I-464