How to setup 1Password on a second machine to use a shared Agile Keychain file in Dropbox

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This should be so straightforward but it's not working for me. I've followed Agile Bit's help guide for setting up a new Mac but it's not working.

I have 1Password installed on one machine. It's completely populated with passwords and a master password on the agile keychain as been set. The keychain is stored in ~/Dropbox. The Dropbox sync occurred and I can see the same keychain file on my other Mac. MD5 checksums match on the files.

When I go to setup 1Password on the new Mac I have two choices when I first run it:

  1. I am a new user
  2. I have already used 1Password

If I take choice 2 I get a file finder window. I navigate to ~/Dropbox and select my agile keychain file. 1Password flashes a loading dialog window and then…nothing. It doesn't show me the Master Login window. Command 0 doesn't bring up the window. I can go to 1Password -> Unlock... and it will give me a small dialog window asking for the Master Password, but the password I used for that agile keychain gets rejected. I just keep getting recycled back to enter password dialog box.

If I take choice 1 I get the option to find information from a previous install. Again, I navigated to that agile keychain in ~/Dropbox. Again, 1Password does some quick loading and then…nothing. Same story as above.

Both of those actions above could conform to what the Agile Bit's documentation says for setting up a new machine and using an existing, sync'ed agile keychain. Neither of them work.

I hesitate to fill out a new profile on the new machine because I don't want to over write my existing agile keychain file and all the passwords in it.

How exactly am I supposed to setup this second machine with the shared agile keychain?

Best Answer

I had this exact problem over and over, with some help from Agile I found the answer here: http://help.agile.ws/1Password3/configure_dropbox_on_mac.html

Here is the important part:

To configure 1Password on your other Macs, first setup Dropbox, then make sure you have the latest version of 1Password installed and running.

Locate your 1Password.agilekeychain file in your Dropbox folder. If it has a green check mark badge indicating that the sync is complete, double click it,

and 1Password will confirm that you want to use this new location. Important If it shows the blue syncing badge rather than the green check mark badge, wait until the badge is a green check mark before opening the file. Failure to do so could result in data corruption.

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