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m021478
August 21, 2026
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Best practices cleaning up 1Password and improving Watchtower score

  • August 21, 2026
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I've been using 1Password for over 15 years now and I currently have 2881 saved logins from over the years. I haven't spent a whole lot of time keeping my 1Password database polished and tidy, and according to watchtower, I have over 1000 ‘Reused Passwords’… and hundreds more that are marked as Compromised or Weak.

The reused passwords will be relatively easy to clean up. For the most part, usually it’s just multiple saved variations of the same login information for the same website, and I just have to pick one that works to keep and then discard the others.

But for the compromise a week passwords, many of these passwords on the list are over a decade old, and I haven't used the site/service in many many years, and have no intention on using it again.

What's considered best practice when deleting old saved entries that won't be needed again? Should I just go ahead and delete (or archive?) the entry in 1Password and call it a day? Or is it advisable to visit each and every website, login if possible, and then request that my account be deleted... prior to deleting the entry in 1Password? The latter sounds extremely tedious and time-consuming, although I'm sure that's probably the ‘cleanest’ way of going about things.

Any tips or advice you guys can give for cleaning up old 1Password entries that won't be needed again in the future? And any other advice you can share for improving my Watchtower score and cleaning/organizing an enormous cluttered database would also be greatly appreciated!

Best answer by AJCxZ0

Start with your most important Login items. Fill out the item with all the relevant fields, test Open and fill to ensure that the first website is the login page. Take this opportunity to update your details on each web site, including using an unique email address (e.g. with a plus or private address), and configure one-time passwords and/or passkeys. This won’t take long and will be most valuable - reflected in your Watchtower score.

Over the next few weeks, visit the less important sites which you still use and update those Login items. Take care of a few at a time.

By this time, most of what you have left can be safely archived if you are concerned that you’ll need it one day, else deleted. Note that the deleted items will be recoverable for a time, so no need to panic the moment you think you deleted something you shouldn’t.

Deleting old accounts on sites you no longer use has some value, but comes at a cost. You’ll probably have to use some kind of recovery mechanism, which will be tedious.

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August 29, 2026

Start with your most important Login items. Fill out the item with all the relevant fields, test Open and fill to ensure that the first website is the login page. Take this opportunity to update your details on each web site, including using an unique email address (e.g. with a plus or private address), and configure one-time passwords and/or passkeys. This won’t take long and will be most valuable - reflected in your Watchtower score.

Over the next few weeks, visit the less important sites which you still use and update those Login items. Take care of a few at a time.

By this time, most of what you have left can be safely archived if you are concerned that you’ll need it one day, else deleted. Note that the deleted items will be recoverable for a time, so no need to panic the moment you think you deleted something you shouldn’t.

Deleting old accounts on sites you no longer use has some value, but comes at a cost. You’ll probably have to use some kind of recovery mechanism, which will be tedious.

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