I’ve been a dropbox user for many years now and pretty annoyed that they’re discontinuing their password manager (and at such short notice too). So anyway, I finally landed on BitWarden to replace it, signed up and amazed to find DropBox isn’t one of the options available to import data from. This could be a big opportunity to grab a bunch of new customers. Is it possible to get this added in the next few days?
For info, the csv format when exporting is pretty simple:
title,website,login,password,notes
example title,http/://bitwarden.com,UserName,PASSWORD,
Hey there, if you’re bumping into any issues using the Bitwarden CSV option, you can learn more about how the csv is structured here, and condition it prior to import if needed: Condition a Bitwarden .csv or .json | Bitwarden
Here is a set of step-by-step instructions for importing your DropBox password manager data:
Open the exported file in Excel.
Go to Save As, and save the file under a different name. Ensure that the selected file type is “CSV UTF-8 (Comma delimited) (*.csv)”.
Change the header of the title column to name (all lowercase) instead of title.
Change the header of the website column to login_uri instead of website. Ensure that the new column title is all lowercase, and ends with i (not a lowercase L) .
Change the header of the login column to login_username (all lowercase) instead of login.
Change the header of the password column to login_password (all lowercase) instead of password.
Ensure that the header of the notes column is all-lowercase.
Add a 6th column (Column F), and name it type (all lowercase). Copy and paste the word login (all lowercase) into every element of the type column (from the second row to the row that has the last login item from your old vault).
Make 5 empty columns (Columns G-K), and name the column headers as follows: folder, favorite, fields, reprompt, login_totp (all lowercase).
Save the file after making all the above changes.
Import the new CSV file into your Bitwarden vault, selecting Bitwarden CSV as the file format. Make a note of the information in the success message (which states how many items were successfully imported), and ensure that this matches your expectations.
Optionally, before Step 11, if the contents of your Bitwarden vault need to be cleared to start over from a clean slate (e.g., because you made prior import attempts that created unusable vault items), then you should purge your vault prior to importing. If this applies to you, then it’s advisable to first create a JSON or ZIP export of your Bitwarden vault, in case you later realize that some of the vault contents should not have been deleted, after all. To purge the vault, log in to the Bitwarden Web Vault, go to Settings > My Account, scroll down to the “Danger Zone” section, click the Purge Vault button, and follow the prompts. Log out, log back in, and verify that your vault is completely empty.
