Delete duplicate logins

Hello @MariaRho,

Thanks for your question about deleting duplicate entries.

Removing duplicate items is best accomplished in the 1Password for Windows desktop app, but will need to be done in a manual fashion.

Depending on the number of duplicates you have, these can be recognized when searching by title of the duplicate items, then using (Ctrl + Enter) to show all matching items. These duplicate items can then be removed manually by selecting the item (or Ctrl + Click for multiple items) and the right clicking one of the selected items > Delete (or archive). See this guide for more details: Archive and delete items

We're investigating ways to simplify this process and add a feature/tool to help identify and clean-up duplicate items. Please let me know if you're interested and I would be happy to pass a +1 along to the product team.

ref: IDEA-I-615

Thank you so much for getting back to me! (I was traveling and couldn't respond right away) I did what you said and it worked. There were over 500 duplicates. A mindnumbing exercise to get rid of them manually. I am curious to know how it happens that all of these dups get created to begin with. Thank you again!

Happy to help and glad this worked, @MariaRho!

I am curious to know how it happens that all of these dups get created to begin with.

The majority of the time, duplicate data can be caused when importing from standalone vaults, though this is normally one (or multiple) duplicate sets of data rather than just many duplicates of the same item.

I'm unsure what may have caused this in your case. You mentioned you changed the password on one accounts then the next day noticed all the duplicates. Could you let us know when you first noticed this? If it was within the past 14 days, we can review a diagnostics report to see if the logs help to explain things.

Sending Diagnostics Reports (Windows)

Attach the diagnostics to an email message addressed to support+forum@1password.com.

With your email please include:

• A link to this thread: https://1password.community/discussion/134680/delete-duplicate-logins
• Your forum username: MariaRho

You should receive an automated reply from our BitBot assistant with a Support ID number. Please post that number here. Thank you!

Welcome to the club. As far as this issue been raised there's no indication if we will ever get remove duplicates function. Check this main thread of pain: https://1password.community/discussion/125331/tool-for-detecting-and-removing-duplicates/p1

I also greatly desire the option to delete duplicates on the Windows OS.

Thanks for your feedback, @Kataklizmic! I've added a vote on your behalf to the issue we're tracking. 👍

ref: IDEA-I-615

I would also like to chime in. Long time 1Password user and advocate. Duplicates happen with some frequency when you do not pay attention what vault new entries added to (newest version of 8 allows the change of default vaults for new items thank goodness). However can I make a suggestion since "We're investigating ways to simplify this process and add a feature/tool to help identify and clean-up duplicate items. Please let me know if you're interested and I would be happy to pass a +1 along to the product team." Taking a page from another password manager....they used the command line, quite nicely, to do this with some parameters:

find-duplicate --title
find-duplicate --login --password
find-duplicate --login --password --url
find-duplicate --full

Oh yes, I made similar suggestion four months ago here: https://1password.community/discussion/comment/658757/#Comment_658757

Using the existing search function, no need to build any time consuming "diff" UI for this feature. Simply add search filter option, e.g. =duplicates
Performing this search will filter all items that are redundant and safe to remove by criteria e.g.:

1. There is another item with same title and fields.
2. Item has older modification date than other identical items
3. 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!

Hi @ScottC69! Thanks so much for taking the time to write in with your suggestion. I've passed these details along to our Product team to help with their investigation 😄

As noted by the user that first posted this topic, for some strange reason, many (but not all) of my passwords have been duplicated when I updated to v8. For an additional strange reason, rather than post the solution, 1P Support chose to close the thread - - so here it is again:

1) MULTIPLE log-ins have self-duplicated. Some show identical "modified" dates and some show different dates.

2) If there is a "FIND DUPLICATES" function in the program, including "Watchtower", I have been unable to locate it.

3) Using the iOS app, attempts to manually eliminate duplicates is inconsistent and frustrating. Some items can be left-swiped to reveal a "remove' panel but some cannot - why the difference. Even after an item is removed it may still show in list and cannot be swiped away, but the 3-dot menu offers "COMPLETELY DELETE". Why the inconsistency and why the two-step process to eliminate the unwanted entry ?

Thank you for any help with this issue.

1Password Version: 8.10.3
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