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"You can't edit this vault" Why?
I have three vaults: Private, my main vault and Shared. Private is out of date and mostly has the same passwords as my main vault. I moved to the other vault because I can't edit the "Private" vault...
1P_Dave
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ModeratorHello SamSamSam! 👋
Thanks for the question! Each family member in a 1Password Families membership has their own Private vault which contains items that only they can see. Unlike other vaults the name of the Private vault cannot be changed and the vault can't be deleted.
The Private vault is unique because it can't be shared with anyone else and your family organizer isn't able to manage this vault.
I have three vaults: Private, my main vault and Shared.
Is there a reason why you don't use the Private vault as your main vault? Why create an entirely new vault? Are you sharing your "main vault" with another family member? I'd like to better understand your use case and share it with the team internally.
If you would like to hide the "Private" vault from all of the 1Password apps then you can use Travel Mode to do so (as you mentioned): Use Travel Mode to remove vaults from your devices when you travel
-Dave
Turning off ”safe for travel” did not hide the Private vault from my apps. Incidentally, ”Safe for travel” would be a much better name for the feature than ”Travel mode”. It’s not even much longer, but clearly indicates what it does.
Why I don’t use the Private vault as my main vault?
The Private vault is unchangeable, so it can’t be customized at all – no icon to help identify it at a glance, no changing the ambiguous name to something more informative. It seems like a remnant that got left behind when new features were added, not something you should use as your default option. It’s like a social media profile that is forced to use the generic icon as the profile pic and be named ”user”.
If it’s supposed to be used as your main vault, allowing the name, icon and description to be changed would go a long way to show that it’s a fully functional part of the system.
