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

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.

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.

ctphoto it's totally fixable, it's more a question of whether they will, or where it is in their dev priority list.

It has been months, I am getting a feeling it is not fixable. Too bad, it is such good software.

+1 for me as well. Extremely frustrating.

ONe more vote for a duplicate detective.

@Spinoza you're absolutely right. This is a 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 ignored. I mean, how could you not catch that huge use case in testing?

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:

• 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,

1. enter =duplicates in search input,
2. select all search results and
3. delete/archive!

We can only dream.

We will all be pushing up daisies before 1Password/Agile fixes this issue.
It's not the fault of the support team members -- the CEO, @"Jeff Shiner" and @DavidT are uninterested/unwilling.

Inability to bulk-remove duplicates (which support will insist are near-duplicates, but are exact duplicates from the user's point of view) has been a fatal issue since 1Password moved from stand-alone to subscription. All of us who were early adopters were screwed. A blot on the company, the founders, and the subscription model. I've given up hope. For now I've gone back to 1Password7, which is somewhat better than the dumbed-down 8. But I'm looking for an off-ramp for myself, my family and my customers. DuckDuckGo, which is free, has recently added password management, and it imports 1Password files. I'm considering that, once I understand how it works better.
1P_Ben https://1password.com/company/

+1 on request for duplicate passwords remover

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,

1. enter =duplicates in search input,
2. select all search results and
3. delete/archive!

We can only dream.