Tool for detecting and removing duplicates? [Available in 8.10.18]

I did that a few days ago, still waiting for response. Why was the duplicate tool removed anyway?

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1Password 8 was a re write from the ground up. It's more of a not there, vs. removed situation. As Peter noted you have all been included in this request. I might add that I am in the request as well. Apologies for the delay. We are running full steam ahead trying to answer everyone as quickly as possible.

Answering isnt really helping. launching a usable product would, seriously. for v8 the only step forward is to downgrade to v7 and perhaps wait for v9

This is so disappointing…

Do I have to write an email with my official 1password email account or with the 1password Community email account?

@kOoLiNuS

We always recommend contacting us with your accounts email address.

I recently updated to 1Password for Mac 8, and also have a "duplicates" issue. But they're not really duplicates. My Personal vault of 500-600 entries (I forget which) suddenly ballooned to over 1,000 entries, because most (not all) of the entries now show up as pairs. There is the current version, and then an entry which is some archived version that somehow made its way back into the vault. In many cases it's easy to tell which is which, but there are lots where it is almost impossible, without testing each entry to find out whether it's current or not, and then re-archiving the invalid entry. This will be, to put it mildly, a huge PITA -- and needless to say, a job I shouldn't have to be doing. Any suggestions for how to fix this problem? After a similar disaster I had with a recent updating of 1Password for Windows, where every entry went blank (thankfully, this was finally fixed), I don't have a lot of confidence that 1Password updates are fully tested before they are released.

I also miss the previous 'find duplicate' tool in V7. After finally upgrading after figuring out I had to first import my standalone vault syncing with dropbox (AB: you need to make this requirement MORE prominent on your website!), I had several dups, sometimes 3 copies for each item. Funny thing was, some of the dups did not have the attachments that were included in the item. I finally manually cleaned out dups (down to around 700 items), and in some cases had to reattach files that landed in the "Salvage" vault. I think I've got things under control, but the upgrade was not smooth. So back to the original point: Is the loss of finding dups due to the switch to Electron?

Hi @CFS, I'm sorry to hear of this experience. Our Mac specialist team would be happy to help with this - please send us a brief message at support@1Password.com, with a link to your post (so that we know it's you, and you don't have to tell the whole story again), and we'll get you some customized help.

@ronread, I'm sorry to learn you encountered that duplicate issue. If there's anything further we can do to help with your specific case, let me know and I'll be happy to do what I can.

Meanwhile, we do have a request for a Duplicate Detective 🕵️‍♂️ feature (I'm lobbying hard for that terminology, as a fan of alliteration), and are collecting customer votes for it to get a sense of the demand. I can really see why it'd be useful in your case and am happy to add a vote on your behalf.

To your question:

So back to the original point: Is the loss of finding dups due to the switch to Electron?

No, to my knowledge Electron didn't have anything to do with this. One of the big challenges of creating 1Password 8 is that it's an entirely new app - a true generational shift - and not an iteration built upon 1Password 7. So that meant "coding from the ground up", as it were.

There are a lot of great things about that (the memory security that Rust offers, much faster ability to roll out bug fixes consistently cross-platform, Universal Autofill, etc). But we do have some features that were in some versions of 1Password 7 (which wasn't nearly as consistent from OS to OS - Windows never had a duplicate removal feature) that aren't in the current release. This is certainly one I'd like you to be able to use, and I'll advocate for it on your behalf.

ref: IDEA-I-615

note: edited for atrocious grammar

Thanks! I look forward to it, though I've only ever had duplicate problems in this upgrade. A feature I'd prioritize over that is the ability to have "local vaults" (for security requirements of clients) made by the per-vault option to sync or not to sync.