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]

spinoza
Dedicated Contributor
2 years ago
I followed the instructions in 1P_Ben's March 31 post, and again asked support for help. Again, the response was No.

No, 1Password cannot remove duplicates, and no 1Password can't prevent duplicates when merging vaults, or merging a password file from another browser. And no, support cannot help, sorry.

Can anyone explain why 1PW won't allow a deduplication tool?

(Member here since 2009.)
spinoza
Dedicated Contributor
2 years ago
1P_Ben, there are many people with this problem. Support has never been able to help. The deduplication tool briefly available in 1PW7 was a good start. I still don't get why a similar tool can't be released for 1PW8. Ideally, a more flexible one. Could you please explain it to me?

Also, it seems we've lost the ability to create and specify the location of encrypted backups of 1PW file. Why? If I need to recover a previous version of my PW file, I need to contact support? Why?

Thank you.
Former Member
2 years ago
+1 from me
1P_Tommy
Moderator
2 years ago
@mayone

That might be the case depending on how your ticket was routed. Please reply back and indicate that you continue to have questions.
Former Member
2 years ago
+1 i just started my free trial and after importing chrome and keychain, have many duplicates
Former Member
2 years ago
I want to +1 this particular need as well. I am migrating my family from another password manager and because of multiple devices over a prolonged time period we ended up doing multiple imports which led to 100's of duplications. I really don't want to have to go back through all of our password to manually identify the pure duplicates, so even something quick and dirty (but trustworthy) to find exact matches would save me likely hours of work.
Former Member
2 years ago
1P_Tommy I wrote but a BOT answered me.
1P_Tommy
Moderator
2 years ago
@mayone

We do not have access to account details here in the community. Please discuss this with the team when you talk with them.
DeppHeard
Frequent Contributor
2 years ago

To best explore this option I'd like to get you in touch with our migration team.

Whaaat.. there's whole Migration team you have there? Are they aware of this bug that is bleeding for more than two years now? Do they read the forum where there's multiple threads about this migration issue?
Former Member
2 years ago
Dear 1P_Ben
I confirm that I had a single standalone wallet synced in 1Password 7. I will write the email as indicated. In the meantime, I would like to know how to be reimbursed with respect to the subscription that I do not intend to carry out as a result of this inconceivable error in the non-repressible update. In the meantime, I proceed with installing Bitwarrden.

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