How to move items from a bespoke "Archive" vault to the official Archive/Trash

Tags would be useful because I want to move vaults, before I archive. I had hundreds of passwords in my "legacy vault" and moving them as-is would just mean they got jumbled with my active passwords. I ended up doing a manual move in batches of ~10, but unfortunately even that hasn't worked correctly and I now have a bunch that missed tagging (and subsequently missed archiving) and are now jumbled up in my current vault (which I was trying to avoid). In my opinion the Windows v8 drag and drop feature is a bit busted at the moment (but that's a little off topic given the original query above was for v8 Mac).

wraith:

Drag and drop into a tag doesn't work, it seems to only move the items that are currently on screen (so ~15 at a time). Select all and right click doesn't allow me to move them to a tag, and I don't want to move them to Private yet because I have almost a thousand items there that I don't want to archive.

Can you please clarify how tags would play a role here? If I understand your question correctly, you are trying to move items to the 1Password Archive, so tags should not be useful in this case.

I'm struggling with this same issue in the new 1Password 8.

I've got 251 items that are in a vault I cleverly called "Archive" and I now want to get rid of that and move them to the main Archive.

Drag and drop into a tag doesn't work, it seems to only move the items that are currently on screen (so ~15 at a time). Select all and right click doesn't allow me to move them to a tag, and I don't want to move them to Private yet because I have almost a thousand items there that I don't want to archive.

I can move them directly to archive with a right-click, but that means I can't delete my "legacy Archive" vault.

Help? :blush:

ThomasK,

Its best to think of the Archive as simply the Trash with a new name and the lack of an "empty trash" command, but the addition of the ability to trash individual items present in the archive via the 'Delete' command. Each vault had its own Trash, correspondingly each vault has its own Archive.

Am I right that were I to delete that vault, I'd also delete its Archive area and, as a result, the items themselves?

That is correct. Deleting the vault also deletes items in the archive in that vault.

Ben

BTW, @rbudish, although I think you now have your answer, this might be useful. You'd said, "there's apparently no way to bulk tag items", but there is at least one way.

First, edit one item in the entire set you want to bulk tag and manually add a tag -- toBeArchived, say. Once that edit is saved, the new tag will appear in the tags list in the sidebar. Then simply do a Select All on the entire set and drag the whole lot onto the new tag. Done.

Following on from the original question: is it necessary to move the items at all?

Here's my situation:
Like @rbudish, I have my own "bespoke" archive vault -- called Expired-and-Old -- which I now plan to delete and instead use the new Archive capability. I've already archived all the entries in that Expired-and-Old vault, and was just about to delete the vault itself when I realized that those entries (which, unlike the vault itself, I do want to retain) are sitting in an Archive area specific to the Expired-and-Old vault. Am I right that were I to delete that vault, I'd also delete its Archive area and, as a result, the items themselves?

On behalf of Dave, you are welcome @rbudish! If you have any other questions, please feel free to reach out anytime.

Have a wonderful day :)

Sorry that it took me a while to respond. But yes, 1P_Dave this was exactly the advice that I needed! Thanks!

Hello @rbudish! 👋

The easiest way to move your items from your "archive vault" to the new Archive in your main vault is to archive all of the items in the archive vault and then uses the 1Password for Mac app to drag and drop the items from the archive of the "archive vault" to the main vault. You'll find that the items will be automatically placed in the archive of the main vault.

Let me know if that helps.