1PasswordAnywhere still gives misleading error message

1Password has added new features and has two core features that are essential for a secure password storage application.

First your passwords never leave your control and your encrypted store is handled very securely. They’ve struck a deft ballance in keeping your data secure yet shareable between your computing devices.

Second when you commit a lot of data to an encryped store, you need to know that you can get at it from a backup even if you loose the application that created it. 1Password embeds 1PasswordAnywhere, a local web based javascript application, it it’s data store that lets you get at your data with only your password and a web browser. Unfortunately this feature no longer
works without workarounds.

When you try it you get the very uninformative message: "A key data file could not be loaded and 1PasswordAnywhere cannot continue without it.” and a link to the help guide which has no useful
information when you search for 1PasswordAnywhere.

You can get this feature to work by enabling the develop menu in Safari. There choose Disable Local File Restrictions.
Next in the Finder navigate to where your 1Password.agilekeychain file is located. Select that file and choose “Show Package Contents” from the local menu (two finger/ right button click)
You will seea file called 1Password.html, drag that file into Safari and a web based version of 1Password will open up.

It would be straightforward to give a sensible error message and help when users try to use this feature, please don’t make it so hard to use.

if this feature ever stops working, then I will stop using 1Password, because without it, 1Password carries the possibility of eventually loosing access to all of my data. Yes you offer some web based options, but those all depend on the continued operation of AgileBits Inc. I wish you well, but I want to be sure that I can get MY data even if you are gone.

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