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by mdaniel 1615 days ago
I don't have the old version installed anymore in order to check, but I thought that 1P only required that you authenticate to Dropbox (since the app just uses the Dropbox API for polling and to pull down changes), not that you turn on syncing. I mean, it's possible Dropbox is so sick they count a signin as a new device, but that would be a grave disappointment
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Legacy user here - It does not use the API, it just stores the vault in your Dropbox folder.
Interesting, because in the root of my Dropbox is ".ws.agile.1Password.settings" which is a plain text file containing the "Dropbox App" path of "Apps/1Password/1Password.opvault" and my understanding of that "Apps" folder in Dropbox is that integrations can write whatever they like to it, but not write outside of it

I have a similar Apps folder for "O'Reilly" from back when I connected their app to Dropbox, and one for Joplin. It's too bad I don't have 1P 7 on my machine anymore, because I no longer have Dropbox on my machine so it would be a good test to see if it still syncs without the Dropbox client present