Slim your 1Password 3 Backups

Gimme!!!

Just to play devil's advocate, why bother to back up if you're syncing 1Password with Dropbox?

Congratulations on not reading the article: "Why worry about space with today's hard drive spaces? I have 1Password set to backup to my Dropbox account, which is limited to a total of 5GB. Plus this meant having to upload 20+MB every day versus

Wow, thanks for the tip! My backups were 10MB, went back down to 300K. Freed up 100 MB of space after I deleted the large backups and made a new one after following these steps.

You most likely are only syncing the main 1Password data file to Dropbox. Seeing this is a bundle instead of a single file, it'll only sync changed content.

Also you can limit the amount of backups 1Password keeps in Preferences --> Backup

Actually, you probably aren't uploading 21 megs of data. One of the awesome things about Dropbox is that it segments your files into tiny chunks, and only uploads the chunks it needs to. So if you make a tiny change to a 100 meg file, you usually only upload a little bit. This is also nifty if you stick a file on Dropbox that someone else has also put on their Dropbox. If, say, you put the 1Passwd dmg file on your Dropbox and then I did the same thing, it would immediately just be there; Dropbox just stores the file once, then keeps track of all the people who have it.

Neat, huh?

Thanks for the tip... I've got like 1gig of backups from 1P, this will save some space

thanks for the tip - I knew what caused the backup size to jump, but this post reminded me that I don't really need the icons/previews, especially that most of them don't look that good

my only problem is that after I deleted all the previews, my backup size went down from 24MB to 9MB. It's a great improvement, but before 1Pwd3, my backups were less than 512KB! Anyone knows what might have caused the backup size not to go back to its original value?

Yikes, they need to fix this on their end. A jump from 1MB to 20MB is pretty drastic.

WOW! thanks for sharing. I'd the same problem. But my thing is that I share the 1Password library over MobileMe, and sometimes it's really slow to sync. Now it's much better, I think so!!! Thanks.