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Anonymous
October 24, 2023
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Please make changes to preserve item history when moving an item to another vault

  • October 24, 2023
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Hello all,

I found that moving an item to another vault would lose its item history. I tried to access a historical note of an item that I moved to another vault, and I cannot find the option "View Item History" from the web app for the moved item in the new vault. Moving back the item does not restore the historical changes. I could reproduce this issue by creating a new item, changing something, and moving to another vault.

I do find a workaround - I found the moved item also in my original vault's "Recently Deleted", and I can restore that item to my original vault and access its history. However, this makes me agitated since I must remember to do this whenever I move an item to preserve its history.

I suggest the developers could make either of these two changes -

  1. Preserve the item history of the moving item
  2. Rather than deleting the item, archive the item, since the deleted item will be permanently purged after 30 days.

By doing this, I believe we could prevent accidentally losing item history when moving an item between vaults.

1Password Version: 8.10.18
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Anonymous
October 25, 2023

This thread caught my eye as I've been gradually updating all my passwords from a particular vault. Whenever I log in to a website from that vault I update the password and then move the item to a new vault. Been doing this for about a year. I just spot checked items in that new vault and all of them had their full password history. I don't have any changed notes, though.

1P_Dave
1P_Dave
1Password Employee
October 25, 2023

Hello @chenhang91! 👋

Thank you for the feedback! Currently, item history is indeed removed from items when they are moved between vaults. This is done so that you don't accidentally share information that you weren't intending to share with someone else by moving an item (that you specifically edited to only contain information that you wanted to share) into a shared vault and forgetting that certain private information, or a private file, could be retrieved from an item's previous version.

That being said, our developers are looking into how we can improve this behaviour and I've added your comments there.

@jonpw

Password history is different from item history. The item history that @chenhang91 is referring to is accessed from 1Password.com: View and restore previous versions of items

-Dave

ref: dev/core/core#23297

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Anonymous
October 25, 2023

Hello Dave and @jonpw, thank you very much for your reply and comment! The tradeoff behind this design does make sense to me, and it's great to know that the developers are improving it. Okay sounds good! I will wait for an update that both prevents accidentally sharing historical changes and preserving the historical changes at the same time 😊👍

1P_Dave
1P_Dave
1Password Employee
October 26, 2023

Thank you again for the feedback. 🙂

-Dave

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szeestraten-nina
March 12, 2026

Hi, the current behaviour of deleting item history when moving items is neither expected nor acceptable in an enterprise use case. Here is why:

  1. The items password field history is still preserved when moving vaults so the argument "don't accidentally share information that you weren't intending" does not hold.
  2. It silently deletes item history which breaks auditability and hinders the ability to restore previous version.
  3. It cannot be undone or reverted.
  4. 1Password does not warn about data loss when moving items.
  5. It conflicts with 1Passwords officially recommended enterprise workflow to create and move items to multiple vaults as items currently cannot be stored in multiple vaults.
  6. It is not documented anywhere in the 1Password support pages as far as we can tell:
    https://support.1password.com/item-history/?windows
    https://support.1password.com/move-copy-items/?windows
    https://support.1password.com/item-history-teams/?windows


This issue has a real impact on our 1Password usage and we would like to know if there is any commitment for it to be fixed or improved since this issue was created 2023.

1P_Dave
1P_Dave
1Password Employee
March 17, 2026

@szeestraten-nina 

Thank you for the feedback! I see that my colleague has replied to the support ticket that you opened to discuss this further. Please continue the conversation there. 

-Dave

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