That's not to say we won't find a way to make it happen, but I thought you might be interested to know some of what makes it so hard to change. Those are just a couple examples, and there are other things which make this even more complicated than it might seem. Even if they're automatically renamed to be unique, how would someone know which sync file goes with which vault when re-configuring Dropbox sync on the other devices? Users could accidentally end up merging different vaults together, which would be a problem. There's also the problem of what to do if different sync files in different locations in Dropbox have the same file name.

You would need to re-configure Dropbox sync in 1Password on each device. If the 1Password app on your Mac were to automatically move sync files to a different location in Dropbox, the main problem would be that it would break Dropbox sync in 1Password on all your other devices.

The situation is actually more complicated than it seems, and in case you're curious, we go into a bit more detail about that here: Why does 1Password need access to all my Dropbox files and folders?

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