1Password Experiment

So I had this plan on trying to make Password management a one-stop among all the clients I use, from MacMini, to office laptop, to iPad. So the software iPassword seems to make so much sense. It has a client for each of these platforms. It even support dropbox, so it should work smoothly, right? Well sort of.

My first hurdle was trying to figure out a way to make 1Password recognize the data file on a remote repository (on a Windows 7 machine filesharing lots of directory. I even went so far by installing Windows 7 on my file sharing machine: EeePC, and although the installation was successful, it took up quite a lot of my time today. But I still found out that I have problem navigate to a 1Password chain file on a shared folder in Windows 7 machine. Finally, I found out a simple solution: simply double click on the keychain file on Mac desktop, and 1Password recognized it.

And then another problem: iPassword on ipad did NOT recognize the keychain file I explicitly put in Windows Dropbox account. Eventually I had to switch the DropBox on my Mac to use the same DropBox I used on my Windows machines, and then I had to uninstall and reinstall 1Password on iPad in order to make the syncing working again.

Finally I found that 1Password on Windows is in beta stage, so maybe a month later it won't work anymore. But in the meantime, I'll just let it slide, because I have enough headache for 1 day already.