Delete duplicate logins

Hi @ponyboy3, thanks for the additional insight 😄 our team will be able to see this when reviewing your feedback.

Hi dkg, thanks for your question! The duplicate clean-up tool in 1Password 7 was only available on Mac, and was very conservative in what it considered to be a duplicate. This meant that in a lot of cases it wasn't particularly helpful. With the introduction of 1Password 8, we wanted to move away from developing separate apps with different feature sets, and instead use a common core, where any implemented features would work across all platforms. As my colleague Mike mentioned, our product team are investigating ways to prevent the creation of duplicates in the first place and simplify the de-duplication process, as well as looking into the potential for implementing a more robust duplicate identification and/or clean-up method across platforms.

If you have any other questions or suggestions, let us know!

So, Mike, - can you give Users a clue why this "Find Duplicates" Version 7 feature, limited as it was, failed to be included in Version 8. I became a 1Password Member specifically to help foster improvements to the application, but instead we are witnessing useful feature elimination. Certainly seems hard to understand.

IMO dedup effort needs to be a thing.... and not lazy like by 1 field, but from a human perspective.
It would also help to have vaults be excluded from all item results. this is the functionality that the archive vault broke. it should be excluded by default.

Hello dkg and @ponyboy3,

Thanks for your messages and sorry for the delay in response.

The last version that contained a "clean up duplicated items" function was 1Password 7 for Mac. This tool's ability was limited as it checks on a per vault basis for exact duplicates. The process for cleaning up duplicate items in 1Password 8 currently remains a manual process.

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 then right clicking one of the selected items > Delete (or archive). See this guide for more details: Archive and delete items

The Product team continues to look in to ways simplify the duplicate detection process or add a tool to help identify/clean-up duplicate items. I've passed your feedback along to the team.

If you have any other concerns or suggestions, please let us know!

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dkg - You also mentioned:

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 ?

In 1Password for iOS, you can swipe left on entries from the item list to Archive or Delete. After deleting an item it should remain deleted but is moved to the recently deleted folder where you can access these items and restore them for up to 30 days from within the apps.

The menu on items offers the same delete functionality. However, after viewing an item in the recently deleted folder, the menu offers the ability to destroy the item permanently - a separate process from deleting the item. Is this the second step you were referring to you were referring to?

Archive and delete items

I am looking for this as well, might downgrade to 7

A view on this forum regarding "Duplicates" reveals quite a number of entires going back through multiple versions. Solutions that worked in v6 and v7 no longer appear to apply to v8. Unfortunately, the Support responses do not appear to be at all comprehensive and instead focus on very individual fixes, including command-line solutions. Isn't it time for AgileBits to step up, find the cause of the odd duplication issues, and issue a real fix ?

I am also trying to deal with many Duplicate Items that have suddenly appeared in version 8 of 1Password. I have tried the above suggestions for locating a menu item to FIND Duplicates in all menus including Troubleshooting and the non-existent "Tools" with no luck. What am I missing?

1P v8.10.3 / MacOS 13.2

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
Extension Version: Not Provided
OS Version: MAC Ventura OS 13.2
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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 😄

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!