[HN Gopher] Tell HN: 1Password 8.10.8 update corrupted data
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       Tell HN: 1Password 8.10.8 update corrupted data
        
       Saw there was an update for 1Password on Mac, and accepted the
       update. After it restarted, and I logged in, a banner said:  "Some
       changes could not be synced with your other devices. View Offline
       Items"  Clicking on View Offline Items crashed the app a few times,
       but eventually after some tries now shows Offline Items.  I have no
       other devices and there are now a number of (old) items in the
       Offline Items section. That section did not exist (for me) before.
       These are logins created months ago, so I wonder if they were never
       synced, or what is broken now. In any case, it seems its gotten
       itself into a bad state and cannot sync properly any more.
        
       Author : clumsysmurf
       Score  : 34 points
       Date   : 2023-06-29 21:50 UTC (1 hours ago)
        
       | dzek69 wrote:
       | Another reason why good old KeePass file, synced via Google Cloud
       | & backuped twice a day is better approach to passwords.
       | 
       | I appreciate many online services, but I don't like them being
       | the only owner of my data and/or abstracting away the fact that
       | my data are files in the end.
        
       | genmud wrote:
       | Can I just say how disappointing it has been watching 1Password
       | progressively get worse as the years go by? I have been a
       | customer for over a decade and have contemplated moving on.
       | 
       | They used to be the app I would point to for awesome design
       | principals for iOS and Mac. The V8 release has made the UI more
       | cumbersome and it feels like a half baked release.
       | 
       | The one bright spot is they have improved their windows version
       | quite a bit and I admit the team based manager is useful, if
       | expensive.
        
         | bredren wrote:
         | I agree.
         | 
         | I think the turning point was when someone leaked the corporate
         | license and acquisition deal talks with Apple was underway.
         | 
         | 1password shouldn't have raised money. $622M+ now?
         | 
         | It would be great if Apple simply built out keychain access to
         | support more data types and family sharing.
         | 
         | https://finance.yahoo.com/news/exclusive-apple-deploy-1passw...
        
         | tiltowait wrote:
         | I still use version 7 for this reason. V8 had some improvements
         | but was overall a regression, and their response to feedback
         | wasn't inspiring.
         | 
         | Sad thing is, I still haven't found anything better. As far as
         | 1Password has fallen, it's still better than the competition
         | I've tried (including Bitwarden) by a country mile.
        
           | [deleted]
        
         | CodeWriter23 wrote:
         | Totally piling on here. Removing the password generator with
         | copy/paste functionality is a stunning example of HIPPO Human
         | Factors egotistical maniacs attempting to engineer reality.
         | There are many websites that simply don't work with their
         | "generate & fill" workflow. My bank, for example.
         | 
         | It's frustrating enough for me, but for my wife whom I'm trying
         | desperately to onboard into the world of password management,
         | this is an impossibly impassible scenario. She basically has to
         | reset her bank password all the time to log in. Which makes
         | standard human interactions like "did you receive that deposit
         | yet" excruciating.
         | 
         | And then on the 1Password forums, all the employees are these
         | self-righteous pricks that summarily dismiss their users as
         | being uncooperative, when the reality is, they removed working
         | functionality and replaced it with garbage that just doesn't
         | work.
        
           | crooked-v wrote:
           | If you weren't aware, you can open the edit view for any
           | particular entry to just change the password there.
        
       | conjuredbytes wrote:
       | There's also a bug atm where it'll reject your password on iOS if
       | you have a hardware key attached to your account. Won't tell you
       | that's the issue, it'll just make you think you're typing in your
       | credentials wrong. Spent the better part of an afternoon on that
       | with support.
        
       | halostatue wrote:
       | This is not corrupted data. It is data already existing that has
       | been unsynced for some reason for a while, and recent updates
       | have exposed it without proper tooling to resolve it in the UI
       | (this is the mistake, IMO).
       | 
       | See https://1password.community/discussion/140860/offline-
       | sync-i... and
       | https://1password.community/discussion/140774/offline-change....
       | 
       | After reading the second discussion, I submitted a support
       | request and received instructions that more or less matched the
       | first discussion. I didn't care about the items (they are all
       | items that I had explicitly deleted in the last four months) so I
       | found some time when I could log out of both vaults and then
       | logged back in (fortunately, I only needed the master passwords
       | because). All of the items were gone.
       | 
       | IF YOU NEED THESE ITEMS, open a support request and DO NOT do
       | what I did. Include a link to one of the discussions I showed
       | above. You should get a response relatively quickly, and they'll
       | tell you what I just said -- and if you need them, you will get
       | additional instructions that should recover the items entirely.
        
       | xxdesmus wrote:
       | 1) Thanks for the heads up 2) Is this the beta channel? or
       | official builds? 3) You've already notified 1Password of this
       | possible bug/risk?
        
         | clumsysmurf wrote:
         | This is the official channel. I just posted it here ASAP so
         | others may decide to hold off a little.
        
       | jen729w wrote:
       | Have you logged in at [not including link for security, go figure
       | it out] 1Password? They have a full online experience, it's
       | basically the app.
       | 
       | See what's there first. Might assuage your fears.
       | 
       | You'll need your 'Secret Key' which you can find in the account
       | settings in the app. The menu item is something like 'set up
       | another device', I'm not on my Mac just now.
       | 
       | Good luck. Scary. I backed our vaults up a while ago and put them
       | on an encrypted USB drive. Need to refresh them.
       | 
       | Hmm it's probably worth the two minutes a month it'll take to log
       | in online and check that your latest items are there. I'll set up
       | a recurring reminder.
        
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