bazcurtis, 4 months ago

@Edent I have the same issue in 1Password. I tend to archive them, even though I know, I won’t use them again.

sebazelonka, 4 months ago

@Edent sometimes I spend some time deleting accounts I never use, and then removing that login info. feels nice

Edent, 4 months ago

Sadly @bitwarden still doesn't have a way to sort accounts by date or by recent usage.

https://community.bitwarden.com/t/sort-items-by-date-of-modification-addition-last-use-etc/2484

Would make it much easier to clear out my hundreds of obsolete accounts.

Edent, 4 months ago

Aha! If you export your #BitWarden vault in (unencrypted) JSON, you can see when an account was created and last updated.

So it is theoretically possible to sort your old accounts and see if they need pruning.

The official API doesn't expose these for searching though.

Edent, 4 months ago

Here's a one-liner to sort your #BitWarden passwords by last updated:

cat bitwarden.json | jq -r '.items | sort_by(.revisionDate) | .[] | .name, .revisionDate, " " '

Still a bit tedious going through them. But at least you can prioritise checking the oldest ones first.

chfkch, 4 months ago

@Edent
I bet it is even easier in #NuShell. At least better to read.

#BitWarden

Edent, 4 months ago

@chfkch I don't know what NuShell is, sorry.
In what way is it better?

Edent, 4 months ago

Down to a more manageable 925 (!)

aimaz, 4 months ago

@Edent there are some examples in the thread you linked that use the bitwarden cli and jq to do it. It saves having to write the unencrypted file to disk and if you filter the output fields you can avoid showing the passwords on screen too. So I’ll use something like

bw list items | jq 'sort_by(.revisionDate) | reverse | .[-10:] | [.[] | {name, revisionDate}]'

They seemed to suggest it would be in the web interface last year, but I see no evidence of the feature in any client I use.

threedaymonk, 4 months ago

@Edent Does it offer you a way to archive them and still retrieve them? Can you store the archive in git or something like that? (That's what I do with Pass.)

Edent, 4 months ago

@threedaymonk No archiving. I can back up the whole vault.
My options are keep or delete.

DevWouter, 4 months ago

@Edent I just wish they had option to sort by last used. And then being able to archive those. Still… I only have 288 accounts and I think that is too much. The idea of having over 1100 seems mad to me. Guess I have some catching up to do.

Edent, 4 months ago

@DevWouter rookie numbers 😆

matt_ellery, 4 months ago

@Edent If you have the time spare, close down the accounts that you never use before you delete the password. If you have a lot of time spare, report the services that don't let you delete your account (there will be at least a few).

mattcen, 4 months ago (edited 4 months ago)

@Edent I have a similar quandary; just over 750 passwords. I think that someday it might be worth auditing them and deleting the ones for websites that no longer exist, and deleting the unused accounts from websites that do still exist, but it is a lot of work to commit to all at once. Probably one of those things that makes sense to put 10 minutes aside for here and there.