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lessig
14 days agoNew Contributor
Feature request: Dealing with duplicates
Imagine a website, website.com, which has a log-in, username/password — so website/username/password — but there is more than one username/password combination in an account.
Is there any simple way to identify the more recent, and delete the others?
Ideally, there'd be a maintenance report that listed duplicate website/username/password combinations, indicating which is the more recent, and giving the user the ability to select one to delete.
Or does this exist and I don't see it? I know watchtower gives you actual duplicates — where the values for website, username, password are identical. But I've got way too many where the website and username are the same, but the passwords are different, and only the more recent works.
1Password Version: 8.10.58
Extension Version: Not Provided
OS Version: Mac 15.2
Browser: Chrome
- 1P_Dave
Moderator
Hello lessig! 👋
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:
- Open and unlock 1Password for Mac.
- Click on Watchtower in the sidebar.
- Click on Show Items under Items with duplicates.
I know watchtower gives you actual duplicates — where the values for website, username, password are identical. But I've got way too many where the website and username are the same, but the passwords are different, and only the more recent works.
Have you tried sorting your items by Title? That should allow you to see items for the same website grouped together so that you can then work to resolve any instances where you have multiple login items for the same website:
Let me know if that doesn't work for you.
-Dave
- lessigNew Contributor
The issue is not duplicates that are "exactly" the same. If every login has three elements — URL, username, password — the duplicates I'm keen to eliminate are when the URL and username are the same, because one password (the older one) is out dates.