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5 years ago

Updating Mac app does not retain customized app name

If you set a custom name for the 1Password app, once the app is updated, the custom name is ignored and you end up with 2 copies of the app. Reproduction Install an older version of the early...
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5 years ago

Hi @klanchman

Thanks for the report! I'm afraid renaming the app isn't supported. If your goal is to have both 1Password 7 and 1Password 8 available this is possible, with a couple caveats:

  • The two apps should not be running at the same time. To help facilitate this, I'd recommend disabling "Always keep 1Password Extension Helper running" in 1Password 7 under 1Password > Preferences > Browser.
  • Install 1Password 7 from our website, rather than from the App Store. This way the filename for 1Password 7 will be 1Password 7.app rather than 1Password.app (which as you've noted 1Password 8 uses).

That's what I've been doing on my system to keep both available with minimal conflict between them. I hope that helps!

Ben