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November 27, 2021
Question

Tool for detecting and removing duplicates? [Available in 8.10.18]

  • November 27, 2021
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https://1password.community/discussion/comment/697252/#Comment_697252

I have several logins that somehow have been duplicated in 1Password 8. This may have happened in different times when I've attempted to migrate my 1Password 7 data to my 1Password.com account.

In any case, I have a load of duplicates in 1Password 8 and it would be very helpful if there were an efficient tool or feature to help me merge/dedupe these entries (and ideally test them to make sure that I'm preserving the correct credentials).

Any thoughts/ideas for how to handle this situation?


1Password Version: 1Password for Mac 8.5.0 80500017, on BETA channel
Extension Version: 2.1.4
OS Version: macOS 12.0.1 (21A559)

https://1password.community/discussion/comment/662923/#Comment_662923

179 replies

DeppHeard
April 1, 2023

To best explore this option I'd like to get you in touch with our migration team.

Whaaat.. there's whole Migration team you have there? Are they aware of this bug that is bleeding for more than two years now? Do they read the forum where there's multiple threads about this migration issue?

1P_Tommy
1Password Employee
April 1, 2023

@mayone

We do not have access to account details here in the community. Please discuss this with the team when you talk with them.

April 2, 2023

@1P_Tommy I wrote but a BOT answered me.

April 2, 2023

I want to +1 this particular need as well. I am migrating my family from another password manager and because of multiple devices over a prolonged time period we ended up doing multiple imports which led to 100's of duplications. I really don't want to have to go back through all of our password to manually identify the pure duplicates, so even something quick and dirty (but trustworthy) to find exact matches would save me likely hours of work.

April 3, 2023

+1 i just started my free trial and after importing chrome and keychain, have many duplicates

1P_Tommy
1Password Employee
April 4, 2023

@mayone

That might be the case depending on how your ticket was routed. Please reply back and indicate that you continue to have questions.

April 23, 2023

+1 from me

spinoza
April 24, 2023

@1P_Ben, there are many people with this problem. Support has never been able to help. The deduplication tool briefly available in 1PW7 was a good start. I still don't get why a similar tool can't be released for 1PW8. Ideally, a more flexible one. Could you please explain it to me?

Also, it seems we've lost the ability to create and specify the location of encrypted backups of 1PW file. Why? If I need to recover a previous version of my PW file, I need to contact support? Why?

Thank you.

spinoza
April 27, 2023

I followed the instructions in @1P_Ben's March 31 post, and again asked support for help. Again, the response was No.

No, 1Password cannot remove duplicates, and no 1Password can't prevent duplicates when merging vaults, or merging a password file from another browser. And no, support cannot help, sorry.

Can anyone explain why 1PW won't allow a deduplication tool?

(Member here since 2009.)

May 3, 2023

Same issue here. All of the items have a duplicated version now. All the archived version of items now become standalone duplicate items.