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coopr
4 years agoNew Contributor
How to "Search Everything" in 1Password 8?
I used to be able to search everything in 1Password 7 - now that I've upgraded to 1P8, I can't figure out how to search everything.
Any tips?
(And just to clarify, I can confirm that searching is not searching everything, because I can see content in my 1Password items that searching fails to find)
1Password Version: 8.7.1
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15 Replies
- Former Member
I came to support looking specifically to give feedback on search. Typing should act like a live filter and not require an additional click.
I do some UI design as part of my work and it drives me nuts when a UI gets redesigned and quick common actions now require extra clicks or looking through menus.
I have well over a thousand entries thanks to dev work. I treat titles as keywords. If I search "google accounts" I want to see all of my google accounts, not just the first one.
I don't mind the new style or using Electron. I do mind having to slow down and look for the options that used to be defaults. - viswizSuper Contributor
The new search has another big problem. It doesn‘t support searching for partial words/substrings. Whatever so search for can only be found at the beginning of a word. This alone makes search completely useless for me. AgileBits added another option for this kind of search and called it find. It‘s only available via shortcut or menu.
- d_stoneOccasional Contributor
Why has this become so complicated? :-( I agree that the new search process is much more complicated. – Is it possible to restore the old search behavior?
- Former Member
Hi coopr, you might be (kind of) in luck. When using the new search bar, you need to hit
Command+Return
to search across everything rather than just have it list a handful of suggested matches below the search box.
I want to highlight to the 1P team that, while the possibility of more quickly accessing the first match could be useful, it is largely disruptive and slows down the search process.
I understand that this behavior has been more popular for "command-driven" utilities like Raycast, but it doesn't translate well to searching a list of content.Also coopr, if that wasn't your issue, you might try confirming if you've selected a specific vault or account in the sidebar. I do that all the time and have to remember to jump back to "All Items".