@Martt Sorry to hear you are still having trouble with this.
Before I attempt to respond to your latest posts, may I suggest completely different strategy for accomplishing your goal? This approach has its own little wrinkles, but perhaps you will find them more manageable than what you’ve encountered in your attempts to clone organizational items.
The alternative strategy that I am suggesting to you is to export the data from your vault, and import the data into your wife’s vault. The three drawbacks of this approach are:
- Bitwarden does not offer a lot of control over what items are exported, so you will probably have to export everything, and then manually edit the exported file before you import it into your wife’s vault.
- The need to manually edit the file means that you must export using the unencrypted .CSV file format, which carries some risk that your passwords may be exposed to prying eyes after they have been exported from the safety of your vault. You can reduce this risk by promptly deleting the .CSV file after you have completed the import.
- The need to work with the .CSV file format limits you to transferring only login items and secure note items; credit card items and identity items stored in your vault cannot be exported using the .CSV format.
You can export and import from any of the Bitwarden apps, and even from the browser extensions. However, the instructions that follow assume that you are working in the Web Vault.(in the Password Manager section, not the Admin Console).
To export, go to Tools > Export Vault. If the items that you are transferring are stored in the organization vault (e.g., in your “Holding Tank” collection), then set the “Export From” selection to your Family organization vault. Set the “File Format” to “.csv” and click Confirm Format; you will then be prompted to enter your master password, after which you can click Export Vault. Depending on how your browser has been configured, the export file will either be automatically downloaded to your default Downloads folder (a folder on your computer), or you will be asked where you wish to save the file. Do make a note of where the file is saved, and the name of the file (something similar to bitwarden_org_export_20241125201929.csv).
Now, open the exported file using a spreadsheet app (e.g., Excel), and delete any rows that you do not wish to transfer to your wife’s account (remove the rows completely, do not leave empty rows where you have just deleted the contents). Save the edited file.
After you have done this, log out of your account and log in to your wife’s account (again, the instructions that follow assume that you are using the Web Vault). To have better control over where the imported data end up, I suggest that you first create a folder (not a collection), named “Imported Items”. Next, go to Tools > Import Data, and set it up as follows:
- Set “Vault” to “My Vault”.
- Set “Folder” to “Imported Items”
- Set “File Format” to “Bitwarden (csv)”.
Then, click Choose File and select the modified .CSV export that you created previously. Finally, click Import Data.
You should see a success message that looks something like this, and then you can just click OK:
Your wife should now be able to find the transferred items in her “Imported Items” folder. From there, the items can be moved into other folders as needed.
Important: When you’re finished with the above, make sure that you permanently delete the .CSV file from your computer (completely removing it from the “Trash”/“Recycling” folder).
I will respond to your earlier posts in a separate comment (although this may have to wait while I attend to other duties).