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. In any case, I have a load of duplicates in 1Password 8 and it would be very helpful if there were an efficient tool or feature to help me merge/dedupe these entries (and ideally test them to make sure that I'm preserving the correct credentials). Any thoughts/ideas for how to handle this situation? 1Password Version: 1Password for Mac 8.5.0 80500017, on BETA channel Extension Version: 2.1.4 OS Version: macOS 12.0.1 (21A559)

Hello everyone! 👋 With the release of the latest beta for Mac, Windows, and Linux you can now see a list of your duplicate items in the app. Choose “Items with duplicates” in your Watchtower dashboard to see or delete all of your duplicates. Make sure that you're running the latest beta to see the feature. As always, please let us know if you find the tool useful and if you have any suggestions for the team. 🙂 -Dave

My Duplicates occurred when I upgraded from V7 standalone on my least used machine to V8. I was already using V8 on two other Macs an iPhone and two iPads. That upgrade process was terrible. It wanted me to create a new 1Password membership (I already have a membership which there was no obvious way to connect to.). I ended up downloading V8 and installing it. It said I had to convert my V7 data to V8. It was not at all clear that I could have just skipped that step. Now I've got about 800 duplicates. The upgrade process needs to be more clear so duplicates are not created in the first place. We also need a duplicate finder/remover tool.

In an ideal world, nobody will duplicate data at import time, but actually it will happen. I will not discuss how it can happen or can be avoided, only that it will happen - proof is this thread and others. Duplicate items are not always user error. Switching to a decent password manager often means merging from multiple sources, then consolidating: import from previous password manager plus Chrome's plus Firefox's plus Safari's internal password managers. One does import once directly after account creation, then never again. You at Agilebits do it never again, so you don't see really any need for postprocessing aid. However, for a new user it's crucial, it's a barrier. With duplicate items I mean login items that contain the same userid+password combination. What I propose you can do about this: - give an overview how many items match above description, in a similar way Watchtower does this. Also create filters, so the user can see a list of only matching entries. - also give an overview how many items match with url+userid, but different password. These might represent current and obsolete entries of the same login. The category could be something like "unable to merge", "merge conflict" or "password mismatch". Also make a filter for these. - explain if duplicates are distributed over multiple vaults. If 2 vaults contain the same, because the user imported the same 2 times, the user should see this and the easy fix for the user is to just delete one of these vaults - make it clear over how many different vaults how many duplicated entries are distributed - add the opportunity to "merge" duplicate entries in one vault, in spirit similar to functions to merge different address entries in address books in other apps. Merge only items within the same vault. - this merging would be available from the context menu you get if you select multiple entries. Merging candidates are only taken from the entries the user selected. - This merging functionality could find login entries with same userid+password combination, then choose the oldest entry as "merged" entry. Then merge all URLs from the other entries to this entry, the same with any custom fields and sections with different values (don't add custom fields with same title+value multiple times). And merge the password history of course. Also skip merging for history entries with identical password+timestamp combinations. After merging, add the tag "merged " to the merged entry (so the user can find all processed entries and can check if all is ok). Then delete the items their content was merged into the merged item. It's an investment in getting new users. I bet the turnover rate from ex-Lastpass users would be higher if you had such a functionality. When I was new, I merged entries from Password Safe and Chrome. I almost gave up, because it was so tedious - after all, Chrome autofill wasn't that bad, and Password Safe for just a local vault also wasn't that bad for all non-browser login items. A month after the trial expired I gave it a second shot and decided to do the tedious work.

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

Former Member
3 years ago
+1 for me as well. Extremely frustrating.
ctphoto
New Contributor
3 years ago
It has been months, I am getting a feeling it is not fixable. Too bad, it is such good software.
Former Member
3 years ago
ctphoto it's totally fixable, it's more a question of whether they will, or where it is in their dev priority list.
DeppHeard
New Contributor
3 years ago
Between 1Password 2.3.7 in July 6 2002 and today's release 2.3.8 is 3 months.

In the new version that took 3 months there's only one change:

Fixed formatting in the expiration date Watchtower banner.

I guess they are laughing at us.
Former Member
3 years ago
Hey 1Password Team Mates, any update or developments on a duplicate removal/merge tool? I'm noticing lots of other commenters saying this has been a requested feature for a number of years with no action taken. Please add my vote (if that makes a difference). I took the plunge on a subscription a while back in a quest to finally clean up my chaotic mess of passwords. There are some 1Password features I really value, but... my vault is still a chaotic mess because there are so many duplicates and it never feels worth my time to spend hours hand-deleting them all. I'm probably going to move on to another service when my subscription comes up for renewal unless there's some sort of tool for handling duplicates. Thanks.
DeppHeard
New Contributor
3 years ago
We need Elon Musk to buy 1Password so he can force them to develop this feature.
DeppHeard
New Contributor
3 years ago
In today's news "Features that were more important to develop than Duplicate Removal" :

We’ve added a tooltip to the delete buttons in the item editor.
We’ve fixed an issue that caused the scrollbar to display in dialogues where it should be hidden.
We’ve fixed an issue that caused signing in to accounts to be slow.
...
Former Member
3 years ago
Dear 1Password team, please give this feature a higher priority. The chaos in my vault is unbearable. :-( In short: +1 from me.
1P_Ben
1Password Team
3 years ago

I wish I had more encouraging news to share, but at this time this is not something that is on our roadmap. I'll continue to advocate for it, but as it stands I don't think a duplicate cleanup tool is something we'll see in 1Password in the foreseeable future.

What I do think we'll make efforts toward is preventing as many duplicates from being created in the first place. These efforts will likely focus around the import process and the in-browser experience.

As for what is currently available to help clean up duplicates:

Watchtower's Reused Passwords checker

Sort options: sort by title to spot similarly named items (e.g. multiple "Google" items)

Creation and modification timestamps on item details

We'll continue to gather feedback on the situation. With that feedback if you can please include:

Any guesses as to how you ended up with duplicate items e.g. from import, migration, or saving multiple times from the browser extension

Any brainstorming you might have about how 1Password can help you find duplicates, beyond what I've mentioned above

What 1Password can do / help you do once a duplicate is identified

For your items that are "duplicates"... are they exact duplicates, or just similar items? In what ways are they different?

Having a better understanding of the answers to those questions may help with getting forward momentum here.

Ben
ctphoto
New Contributor
3 years ago
"but at this time this is not something that is on our roadmap." WTF? Do you folks have any idea how frustrating this is to your customers? LastPass is starting to look pretty good!

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