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May 23, 2022
Question

How to search password in archive in 1Password 8 on macOS?

  • May 23, 2022
  • 29 replies
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The search functionality seems can only search passwords outside Archive. Is there a way to search passwords in the archive in 1Password 8 on macOS?


1Password Version: 8.7.0
Extension Version: Not Provided
OS Version: Not Provided

29 replies

May 24, 2022

I need this too.

1P_Tommy
1Password Employee
1Password Employee
May 27, 2022

Thanks all. I've got you penciled in for being excited to see a feature such as this. Hopefully, the team can come through with it.

June 8, 2022

I'm not sure if this is a similar issue, but I from 1Pass 7 to 1Pass 8, we lost the ability to search for a password by a fragment of the Password title. For example if I the title of my entry is 1Password.com, I no longer see that entry when I type "Password" into the search field.

Jack_P_1P
1Password Employee
1Password Employee
June 15, 2022

Hi @mickeymouse1:

Thanks for your feedback on this! As it currently stands, search uses word boundaries like spaces, or capitalization to find words. In a situation like yours, using Edit > Find might be able to find what you're looking for. Let me know if that works for you!

Jack

June 18, 2022

@Jack_P_1P ,

I can confirm @mickeymouse1 's issue and my experience was that using the Edit > Find functionality didn't work the first time I tried it, but then did. A bit strange.

Regarding @gasses_bird 's original issue, I would like to put in a vote for this too. Before 1Password added the Archive function, there was a work-around where you could create a vault called Archive and hide the Archive vault from the All Vaults view. This would allow you to move any item to the Archive vault, then, when you're viewing a website none of the items in the archive would be suggested. But in the 1password interface, the Archive could be searched like any other Vault.

Now that 1password has added the Archive function, all of my archived items have been resurrected and show up when I visit the website that it applies to. There is no longer an option to hide a vault from "all vaults" so the only choice is to archive all of the items in the Archive vault, but then they are unsearchable. There is at least one other thread on this forum and a couple of reddit threads about this issue. Please fix.

Jack_P_1P
1Password Employee
1Password Employee
July 1, 2022

Hey @jlndavis:

Thanks for sharing your thoughts. I've added your feedback to an internal discussion we have tracking this.

Jack

ref: IDEA-I-929

July 29, 2022

I was looking for a way to search in Archive as well. This discussion gave me the answer: Edit > Find works when you're in Archive! I never used Edit > Find before: I always use Search. I think that I'll start using Edit > Find now: it's a useful way to filter a long list (for example, of tagged items, etc.). Can I make a couple of suggestions for developers? If I were you, I would:

  • Add some button in UI for it. (I'll have to remember the keyboard shortcut for now).
  • Rename it to Filter or Toggle Filter
1P_Tommy
1Password Employee
1Password Employee
August 2, 2022

Thanks DKroot. Hopefully, this is indeed something we can improve on.

August 3, 2022

I would also like to add my +1 for this. I don't really mind that "Archive Search" isn't part of the "Main Search", in fact I kind of like that separation, since I don't want my archived entries showing up every time I search for "password". But it would be nice if this was differentiation more intuitive in the interface.

andrew_l_1P
1Password Employee
1Password Employee
August 3, 2022

I agree, @1Jeff, I don't think I'd want my archived items showing in the default search but I can appreciate that that doesn't necessitate not being able to search the archive it all. I've added a vote on your behalf. 👍🏻

ref: IDEA-I-929