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

+1 please. I too have a boatload of duplicates since migrating from a local legacy 1P vault file to 1P online.

Hi @mikentosh,

Glad to hear you have a path forward, sorry it wasn't as seamless as we would've hoped though.

That's correct, 1Password 7 remains available as a legacy download on our website: 1Password Downloads

Some of the duplicate issues we saw were a result of lingering local vaults from previous versions that weren't deleted, so the same thing won't happen with future versions now that folks are using 1Password.com accounts. I do recommend deleting old local vaults if you still have them though, as to avoid any already-migrated data from being sent over to 1Password 8 again!

Thanks, Andrew.

I have contacted via the support email address and have received a couple of responses and guidance on how to delete items. I completely understood how to do that prior to reaching out. Even deleting multiple items at once. I suppose that will have to suffice for now.

I have migrated through multiple versions of 1Password over the years. I’ve been a fan since day one. I don’t recall having this much of an issue until Version 8. I think I might go back and check my V7 database and compare. I can still install that, correct?

Hi @mikentosh,

The hope is that we can lessen the instances where duplicates are created in the first place, but I can still understanding wanting the tool in the latest version of 1Password, I'll add your feedback to the tracker mentioned earlier in this thread.

If you haven't already, I recommend contacting us via email at support@1Password.com so we can investigate what caused your duplicate items. You can include a link to this thread and your forum username so we can connect the conversations. Any additional information like a recent migration from an earlier version or importing data will also help! The tool in 1Password 7 is very conservative so depending on the source of the duplicate items, it may not be a worthwhile course of action.

Let me know if you have any questions. 🙂

ref: IDEA-I-615

A tool to find and delete duplicates was in version 7 and is not in version 8? I would like to use this tool. I am tempted to go back to version 7, delete dupes, then import into version 8. Hmmmmmm......

Hi 1Password-Team,
was just importing all my passwords from chrome and safari and naturally have many duplicates now, so +1 on this feature.
I was going through them manually a bit and I found myself copying potential login URLs for sites from one item to the other.
So I think what would be good to have in this feature is a way to merge two items. Maybe see them both side-by-side and you can select what you want to take from which item?

I think you need to have a solution for those who have upgraded and those who will. This is a major issue. Whomever did the programing in the first place must have never run real world beta tests. This issue would have jumped right out and moved to the top of the "must get fixed" before releasing list.

We have a number of thoughts around migration and import that we're investigating to see if we can better prevent duplicates from being created in the first place. From what our product team is saying, it sounds like there will be improvements made in those areas. I'm not aware of any definite efforts on a dedicated tool for cleanup once they occur, but as outlined above there are a few ways 1Password can help you identify such items if they do get created.

Ben

After all the noise about this issue in the forum, month ago on November 2nd I was contacted by Max, 1Password product manager. I repeated the same concerns and it was strange because he replied that they want to know what users want to see! Like multiple threads in forum is not enough information. It sounded like threading water and just biting time. Maybe it's a way of keeping customer calm by making it look like something is happening..

Their last reply was:

... my team is specifically looking at feature improvements around this and due to the volume of requests around it I prioritised it as an area that I want to see resolved. We are currently looking at getting these improvements in the product by the end of Q1 next year.

For me the solution is around us removing as much manual process here as possible. I'm right there with you that asking people to manually do this themselves is a terrible approach.

So, Q1 next year. It's not couple of days to develop this, as someone wrote above. It's 4-6 months!
And in software development, as we all know, you have to multiply estimates by two. Mid 2023 would be one year anniversary, if not more.

I've already managed to clean up many of my duplications - but there's still more to go through.

Although only slightly on-topic, it would be nice to have a URL-checker built-in to find entries in 1Password for sites that no longer [seem to] exist - kind of like what watchtower does for identifying sites that have known password breaches. It would allow you to find, verify, and remove entries for old/dead sites and sites that no longer use accounts (I've come across several such sites where I used to have a login and where there no longer is a place to log in on them anymore). I'm spending a lot of time just trying to verify that these sites still exist to know how much effort to put into dealing with their duplications or weakness of passwords, etc.