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Anonymous
2 years ago

Please make changes to preserve item history when moving an item to another vault

Hello all, I found that moving an item to another vault would lose its item history. I tried to access a historical note of an item that I moved to another vault, and I cannot find the option "Vie...
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szeestraten-nina
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2 months ago

Hi, the current behaviour of deleting item history when moving items is neither expected nor acceptable in an enterprise use case. Here is why:

  1. The items password field history is still preserved when moving vaults so the argument "don't accidentally share information that you weren't intending" does not hold.
  2. It silently deletes item history which breaks auditability and hinders the ability to restore previous version.
  3. It cannot be undone or reverted.
  4. 1Password does not warn about data loss when moving items.
  5. It conflicts with 1Passwords officially recommended enterprise workflow to create and move items to multiple vaults as items currently cannot be stored in multiple vaults.
  6. It is not documented anywhere in the 1Password support pages as far as we can tell:
    https://support.1password.com/item-history/?windows
    https://support.1password.com/move-copy-items/?windows
    https://support.1password.com/item-history-teams/?windows


This issue has a real impact on our 1Password usage and we would like to know if there is any commitment for it to be fixed or improved since this issue was created 2023.

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1P_Dave
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2 months ago

szeestraten-nina​ 

Thank you for the feedback! I see that my colleague has replied to the support ticket that you opened to discuss this further. Please continue the conversation there. 

-Dave

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    szeestraten-nina
    New Contributor
    2 months ago

    Hi 1P_Dave​, thanks for your reply! I think this thread (and No item history in moved items | 1Password Community ) is still relevant for others that might be searching for info about this issue/feature request.

    Regarding the support ticket, I am happy to continue the conversionation there, but the last email I got was on Sunday 2026-03-15 stating that it would be closed without having addressed any of the points of concern. I replied on Monday 2026-03-16 and currently still waiting on a reply :)

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      1P_Dave
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      2 months ago

      I see that my colleague sent you a reply earlier this morning. If you have any other questions then reply to that email and that team will be happy to help further. 🙂

      -Dave

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        szeestraten-nina
        New Contributor
        2 months ago

        1P_Dave​, yes, I received a reply :)

        We still hope that there will be an update soon to allow item history to be preserved when moving vaults as the support team could not answer on that topic.

        Have a nice weekend!