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November 11, 2024
Question

Is there an easier way to clean up passwords

  • November 11, 2024
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I do a search, see the dups, delete one of them, it pops up a message that it will be saved for 30 days, I have to click on that message EVERY TIME I delete a password.

Is there a way to pull up a spreadsheet like view to quickly clean up my passwords?

Any other suggestions on how to quickly clean up passwords and get rid of dups and older passwords?


1Password Version: 8.10.50
Extension Version: Not Provided
OS Version: MacOS 15.1
Browser: Safari

4 replies

November 12, 2024

Hello, try using the Security Audit section in 1Password — it lets you quickly spot duplicates or outdated passwords. Unfortunately, there’s no spreadsheet view, but you can export to CSV, clean it up in a spreadsheet, then re-import. It’s not perfect, but it might help!

1P_Dave
1Password Employee
November 12, 2024

Hello @SteveU75! 👋

Thank you for reaching out! If the duplicate items are exactly the same and in the same vault then you can also use 1Password's Watchtower tool to clean them up:

  1. Open and unlock 1Password for Mac.
  2. Click on Watchtower in the sidebar.
  3. Click on Show Items under Items with duplicates.

You can read more about using Watchtower to find passwords that you need to change here. Let me know if that doesn't fit your needs. 🙂

-Dave

SteveU75Author
November 29, 2024

Awesome tip however it does not explain how it is deciding which duplicate to keep and if they have to be exact duplicates. I might have five duplicate entries for google.com that are not exact duplicates, how do I find them.

Is there any way to see date created?

1P_Dave
1Password Employee
December 2, 2024

@SteveU75

The duplicate finder in Watchtower will only find exact duplicates, if the items are even a little bit different then they won't be detected as duplicates.

If you have items that are similar, but not exact duplicates, then you'll need to find those manually by using the search tool, move all relevant information to the item that you wish to keep, and then delete the other items: Search in the 1Password app to find what you need

Is there any way to see date created?

You can view when an item was created by clicking on that item and then scrolling to the bottom of the item's details and expanding the section there:

-Dave