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Location of Local Encrypted Vault File on Mac for Offline Access
Hi All - was looking through old posts but couldn't find anything since 2020 on this (and nothing specifically in the help on it) - can someone confirm where the local copy of the encrypted vault fil...
You would have to recreate the key derivation and decryption functions of 1Password, and the ability to parse the SQL to be able to interact with the items, by which point you would've basically rewritten a good chunk of 1Password's underlying structure. Is there a particular use case you're thinking of here?
No I didn't have a specific scenario - was more thinking about recovery such as should you be offline and/or be in a position the 1Password App can't or won't run... So all you could do is recover that file from your Mac or Windows machine and you don't have access to 1Password going forward indefinitely (for whatever reason) or long enough to need to get to data in your vault urgently - could you access it somehow? Not looking to circumvent any security...
