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Yeshco
4 years agoNew Contributor
Importing local vault
I had a vault that I created locally that ends with .opvault I copied yesterday the vault to another laptop via airdrop, now it appears in the new laptop as a folder still ending in .opvault but I ca...
1P_Dave
Moderator
4 years ago@andrewleung
1Password 8 no longer supports older standalone vaults. Our founder Dave wrote a mini-essay where he talks about our decision regarding standalone vaults here: The future of local/standalone vaults — 1Password Support Community
Unlike older standalone vaults that are only protected using your password, your 1Password account data is protected and encrypted using a secret that is derived from both your account password and your Secret Key. Without both your account password and Secret Key it's impossible for someone to decrypt your 1Password account vaults.
You can read more about using 1Password to manage cryptocurrency on our blog: How to use 1Password to manage cryptocurrency
-Dave