1Password, Dropbox and symbolic links
If you have a Mac and don’t use 1Password, you’re missing a lot. If you have a computer and don’t use Dropbox — see previous sentence. If you think you have a mobile and it’s not an iPhone…
Anyway, for some time now 1Password was touting new feature — Dropbox sync. All should be working in an Apple-way — just turn it on and voilà. Unfortunately 1Password has problems if it’s password repository is located in a directory that in not directly under Dropbox folder. For example in a directory that is sym-linked to Dropbox folder.
For example my Dropbox folder looks like this:
Kuba$ ls -la Dropbox
total 736
drwxr-xr-x@ 11 Kuba staff 374 20 wrz 23:03 .
drwxr-xr-x+ 51 Kuba staff 1734 20 wrz 22:44 ..
-rw-r--r--@ 1 Kuba staff 15364 20 wrz 22:57 .DS_Store
lrwxr-xr-x 1 Kuba staff 13 6 wrz 2009 Documents -> ../Documents/
-rw-r--r--@ 1 Kuba staff 0 19 wrz 11:14 Icon?
lrwxr-xr-x 1 Kuba staff 12 6 wrz 2009 Projects -> ../Projects/
drwxr-xr-x@ 3 Kuba staff 102 19 wrz 11:14 Public
And inside Dropbox/Documents you can find 1Password.agilekeychain. In such a setting iPhone will never locate your file. But fear not, all you need is a small text file .ws.agile.1Password.settings located inside your Dropbox main folder. This file should have path to agilekeychain.
Kuba$ ls -la Dropbox/
total 736
drwxr-xr-x@ 11 Kuba staff 374 20 wrz 23:03 .
drwxr-xr-x+ 51 Kuba staff 1734 20 wrz 22:44 ..
-rw-r--r--@ 1 Kuba staff 15364 20 wrz 22:57 .DS_Store
-rw-r--r--@ 1 Kuba staff 33 20 wrz 22:58 .ws.agile.1Password.settings
drwxr-xr-x 2 Kuba staff 68 20 wrz 22:59 Document
lrwxr-xr-x 1 Kuba staff 13 6 wrz 2009 Documents -> ../Documents/
-rw-r--r--@ 1 Kuba staff 0 19 wrz 11:14 Icon?
lrwxr-xr-x 1 Kuba staff 12 6 wrz 2009 Projects -> ../Projects/
drwxr-xr-x@ 3 Kuba staff 102 19 wrz 11:14 Public
And what’s inside the file:
Kuba$ cat Dropbox/.ws.agile.1Password.settings
Documents/1Password.agilekeychainKuba$
Notice lack of newline at the end of the file. Now all should be working.
