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Former Member
4 years agoTool for detecting and removing duplicates? [Available in 8.10.18]
I have several logins that somehow have been duplicated in 1Password 8. This may have happened in different times when I've attempted to migrate my 1Password 7 data to my 1Password.com account....
DeppHeard
3 years agoNew Contributor
I UNDERSTAND NOW! This is the punishment. The bug affects people who had perpetual license and upgraded to 8.0 with subscription. Those people were "freeloading" for a while using non-subscription bringing no money at all.
1Password decided deliberately not fix this bug to punish us. And maybe bug when migrating from license to subscription that creates duplicates without you knowing was deliberately ignore. I mean, how could you not catch that huge use case in testing?
To illustrate this, here's some of the features from 8.0-8.8 changelogs that were more important to spend time to develop:
- The unlock animation has been sped up.
- You can now search for untagged items using =untagged
- The title of the Settings window now updates when changing the language in the app.
- We’ve optimized and restored the menu animations to the app.
- If collapsed, vaults and tags in the sidebar will temporarily expand if you drag an item over them.
- You can now right-click items to permanently destroy them in the Recently Deleted list.
- We’ve added additional animations to the lock screen.
All nice features, yes. but saving seconds of time at most, while duplicates would steal hours of your time.
Duplicates could be developed many times over. Why not? If this is not question of priorities then it's a deliberate omission of this function.
Threads of people begging for this function:
- https://1password.community/discussion/123846/tool-remove-duplicates-gone
- https://1password.community/discussion/125284/finding-duplicate-entries-within-a-vault
- https://1password.community/discussion/123220/how-to-find-duplicate-entries
- https://1password.community/discussion/125331/tool-for-detecting-and-removing-duplicates
- https://1password.community/discussion/129815/feature-request-merge-items
Reddit threads:
- https://www.reddit.com/r/1Password/comments/xa41pe/duplicate_finder/
- https://www.reddit.com/r/1Password/comments/kf9u0d/is_there_an_easy_fix_to_duplicate_passwords/
- https://www.reddit.com/r/1Password/comments/va1vqs/almost_every_item_in_my_vault_is_a_duplicate/
- https://www.reddit.com/r/1Password/comments/q43mgf/merging_duplicates/
- https://www.reddit.com/r/1Password/comments/m669sg/cleaning_up_duplicate_accounts/
1Password developers, I will make it easier for you! No need to build any time consuming "diff" UI for this feature. Simply add search filter option, e.g. =duplicates
or =redundant
Performing this search will filter all items that are redundant and safe to remove by criteria e.g.:
* There is another item with same title and fields.
* Item has older modification date than other identical items
* Same or less number of fields as other identical items
Then simply,
- enter
=duplicates
in search input, - select all search results and
- delete/archive!
We can only dream.