Feature Request: Ability to Empty Individual Items From Trash

Hi @fssbob! That's an interesting suggestion. I can definitely see how this would be useful for cleaning routines such as the one you mentioned. There have been a few requests for such a feature in the past as well. I've forwarded your feedback along to our development team for consideration. I really like the idea to automatically empty the Trash after a specific amount of days has passed. It's similar to how Mail works in OS X, permanently erasing messages once they are a month old. That also makes more sense in your specific use case than individual deletion because there's no need to think about it. Thanks so much for posting it. :)

ref: OPM-1418

Correct, @fssbob!

We took your meaning from your original wording, "empty items after X days in trash." I agree with you and penderworth, it sounds like a good idea! We'll leave it to the devs to see if/when it might be possible to implement such an option.

Thanks again! :) Have a great weekend.

Hi @MikeV99,

I noticed you also posted about this in another thread, so I've moved those comments to this discussion so we don't duplicate efforts or cause confusion between here and there. I hope you don't mind!

I have 261 items in trash. I just want to clear them selectively or by age. Trash keeps growing, but to clear it I have to permanently delete the last two items in trash that are a week old at the same time I remove the ones several years old. Gotta be a better way!

That seems like a lot of items to have in the Trash, but if you haven't emptied the Trash in 1Password for multiple years, I can see how that would add up. However, is there a reason why you haven't emptied the Trash in several years? Is it because you've been hoping we would add the ability to selectively delete items from the Trash? I noticed you've asked us about this in the past, but we can't make any promises about if or when we'll add the ability to do that.

If I understand, it sounds like you have 2 items in the Trash which you do not want to delete - is that correct? If so, a simple workaround would be to restore those 2 items (so they are moved from the Trash to their original item categories), empty the Trash, then move the 2 items back to the Trash (if you still want to keep them there).

Aside from that, I'm curious about how you use the Trash and why you keep items in there which you don't want to delete. The Trash is basically meant for items that you want to get rid of, but gives you a chance to restore them in case you moved them there by accident. So it sounds like you're using the Trash a bit differently than intended. If you can tell us more about your particular use case, we'll be happy to add your comments to our internal tracker for this feature request.

ref: OPM-1418

Share - Move Vault 2. Item is in Vault 2, but it goes back to Trash in Vault 1 (item count back up). Now what?

Currently, that's correct behavior: When you use the 'Move' option, it technically creates a copy of the original item in the new vault. Instead of instantly deleting the original item from the original vault, it's moved to the Trash of that vault (the fact that you previously had that item in the Trash is a coincidence). We know this isn't really ideal behavior though, and our developers are hoping to improve that. I'm sorry for the inconvenience!

ref: OPM-3172

Hi @MikeV99 ,

That's an excellent point about the date changing. Moving and copying makes a new instance of the item so the dates change. I'll add that note about to the feature request.

Cheers,
Kevin

ref: OPM-1418

You took the words right out of my mouth, @hawkmoth! :lol:

@MikeV99, I think an 'Archive' vault might be a good fit for your use case. You could move items there if you think you no longer need them, and then you can move them to the Trash (and empty the Trash) once enough time has passed and you're certain you don't need them anymore. The problem of course is that the date would be changed for each item you move there, although you would at least be able to see how long each item has been in the Archive vault. If you absolutely need to know the original creation date of an item, you could copy that into the 'notes' field of the item before moving it to an Archive vault. That would take an extra step or two, but I thought I'd mention it as a potential workaround in case it helps.

I'm glad to hear a separate vault for those items will be a suitable workaround for you!

The Trash in 1Password was designed to work very much like the Trash on OS X (or at least the way it worked before the 'Delete Immediately' option which was added in El Capitan). If selectively deleting items from the Trash in 1Password is something that would be helpful for a lot of customers, I'm sure our developers will consider it. But for now, at least using a secondary vault will help you manage those items.

Thanks again for your feedback & suggestions! We're here for you if you need anything else. :)

I hadn't realized items in the Recycle Bin could be individually deleted on Windows, so you taught me something new too, @dszp! Thanks! :sunglasses:

Hello @MikeV99,

Search doesn't include the Trash I'm afraid, it only searches the vault for items that haven't been marked for deletion. Search happens at a global level and so ignores whatever may be selected in the Sidebar. As a result having the search contain deleted items would likely only cause mass confusion to the majority of users and I'd probably include myself in that too. If we were to add select searching of categories then we could potentially add searching of the Trash but I couldn't comment on when or if such a feature might happen.