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Former Member
4 years agoTool -> Remove Duplicates Gone?
Hi,
So upgraded from my local vault to subscription. This didn't go particularly smoothly resulting in a large amount of duplicate entries (probably incorrectly I thought the it would merger entries when moving the various devices to iCloud).
Anyways, so there used to be a tool for removing duplicates. I can't seem to find it in 8.0; it certainly came in handy now and then.
Cheers,
Julian
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12 Replies
- 1P_PeterG
Community Manager
Thank you for letting us know the details of this, @valor. I'm sorry that the 1Password 7 duplicate tool hasn't been helpful for cleanup in this case too. We're continuing to work on how we can best help in situations where duplicates arise and will make sure to post in the forums with any news on this topic. Thanks for bearing with us.
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- Former Member
1P_Rob I have over 800 duplicates, and I spot-checked several and they all match this pattern.
The duplicates were created when I migrated from a perpetual license (DropBox sync) to subscription, just like OP[EDIT] And the 1Password 7 duplicate remover tool doesn't work, I assume because of this issue. I've just been living with the duplicates :-)
- 1P_Rob
1Password Team
Hmm, that's interesting. There should always be a
pbe
value when there's apgrng
value, especially whenpgrng
is true. @valor do you know how the duplicate was created and which one is the original?Also, are you seeing this problem with multiple duplicates or just this one?
- Former Member
1P_Rob It looks like the other 1P folks on this thread have moved on; could you have a look at this? 😬
- Former Member
Bumping this thread -- having the same issue as spinozaIt appears that there's the presence of a "pbe" value in the JSON dump of one entry, and not in the other.
I've attached a screenshot of the file diff (redacted, of course) for illustration -- this same pattern exists in my other duplicated entries.[EDIT] Of course, within the app everything is the same and the "pbe" JSON entry has no UI equivalent.
- Former Member
It sounds like then they are not real duplicates, if some information differs in the items. Out of curiosity, what metadata differs?
- spinozaDedicated Contributor
The dedup tool does not work in 7, because some trivial change in the metadata (not tags) causes it to not see duplicates. The duplicates are otherwise identical.
- Former Member
@jnd:
In the end did as you said and went back to 7 and removed the duplicates there and all was good :)
That is good to hear, thank you for the update :)
- Former Member
@ag_ana
Yup I think something along those lines what probably happened when I was switching to subscription.
In the end did as you said and went back to 7 and removed the duplicates there and all was good :)
Would be nice to get the tool in 8, but then again been using 1Password for years and this is the first time I’ve had an issue…
- Former Member
@BoernyMcBee:
If there are indeed duplicate vaults, removing duplicates is very easy: just removed the duplicate vault. If the duplicates are inside the same vault however, that's where the duplicate removal comes in handy.