1Password 5 - Family Share on Yosemite

@cammot‌ If what you want to do is how Apple envisage it should work then it usually works brilliantly. If however your approach doesn't fit in with Apple's vision you've got an uphill battle on your hands. Apple think families may like to share calendars and photos and stuff like that but haven't expanded that to sharing of general files or those synced using CloudKit by a specific app.

If you've got multiple iOS devices you want to sync to a single mac then WiFi would be fine as long as you're only dealing with a single primary vault.

If you want to sync secondary vaults or you're looking at multiple macs as well as multiple iOS devices then the path of least resistance is Dropbox. You could set it up where you're using Folder Sync for the Macs and WiFi sync for the iOS devices but Folder Sync can be tricky and doesn't like it if the sync location isn't always there i.e. a networked location that is only accessible when at home or simply from a flaky network. Both Dropbox and iCloud avoid that by having a local copy. You could use something like ChronoSync to sync a local Folder with another machine but I don't know what success has been had with such sync solutions.

Does that help?

@cammot‌ As long as you're careful of course you could jump between different sync solutions although I doubt it was designed with that in mind. When I say that I merely mean it was more likely they assumed people would set up a particular synchronisation method and then just leave it running. So you'd want to be careful about purging old data and possibly the order of switching. For example if there is a bunch of iOS devices and one mac I'd switch turn off syncing on all iOS devices, then on the mac turn it off and purge the previous data so that sync filesystem was clear for next time. Then I'd set up syncing on the mac, give it a moment to ensure it is synchronised and the set up each iOS device in turn.

I'm curious why you wouldn't consider just selecting Dropbox and leaving it. Each device can be logged in it's respective owner's iCloud account and make use of whatever features that brings to the various apps without interfering with 1Password using Dropbox, the two can play together on both iOS devices and macs.

What may assist in this occasion is if you can give a little more detail as to your setup and goal e.g. How many iOS and mac devices belonging to x individuals with what versions of iOS and 1Password. How many vaults and who needs access to which.

@cammot‌ Say you and your wife want to have a bunch of joint accounts for various sites but you also have your own personal stuff that you want to keep private - that's one use of secondary vaults. The idea is you'd each have your own personal, primary vault with a password only known to that person. You'd then have a secondary vault with its own unique password and in that one you'd store all your joint entries. You'd both have equal access to view and modify and any changes made by one would be synchronised to the others via Dropbox. Essentially it's sharing without giving up total access to your primary vault.

I use it simply to create a nice clean divide between by personal stuff and my work stuff. I keep a record of any customer related logins I need, a record of all software purchases made on their behalf etc. and by using a secondary vault my primary vault doesn't become a sea of entries all jumbled together.

At the moment though Dropbox (or I suppose folder sync technically) is the only way to synchronise secondary vaults as iCloud and WiFI sync cannot handle that for now.

I've heard of users keeping their kids vaults as secondary vaults so they can administer it and if a bunch of you at work use 1Password and want a communal vault then secondary vaults would probably seem quite handy then too. It's easy to imagine the MD or finance director wanting to keep a bunch of important details safe without handing over access to anybody else. Does that help?