I am new to Bitwarden and I need some help.
I created an Bitwarden account and imported my passwords&usernames from Google Password Manager to Bitwarden.
I enabled the Bitwarden extension for Edge on my PC,but I can’t use the autofill feature when trying to login to the sites.
The autofill feature completely doesn’t work.
I’ve also tried the keyboard autofill shortcuts and they don’t work too.
Also,do I have to enter the master password everytime I run Edge?
How do I automatically set the imported passwords from Google Password Manager to the Vault?
Please help me to resolve the issues.
I also have an another question too.
I am using Brave on my Android phone.Is there a way I can use Bitwarden with Brave on Android?
You said that you imported your Google Password Manager stored credentials into your Bitwarden vault, but then you asked about setting (sending?) the Google passwords to your Bitwarden vault. Once you switch to Bitwarden, you should completely disable the Google Password Manager; thus, you should omly need to do the import once. Please clarify whether you were in fact able to import your Google password into Bitwarden (or if you need help with this import process).
Every time that you close the Edge browser and restart it, you will need to supply your master password to unlock the browser extension. There are two options for circumventing this, but both methods reduce the security of your vault (to various degrees). For example, you can set up your browser extension to be unlocked using a PIN or a fingerprint, and disable the default safeguard of requiring the master password for unlocking after the browser has been restarted. Disabling this safety requirement stores the vault encryption key on your device in such a way that it can be extracted by using brute force to guess your PIN. If your PIN is reasonably strong (the PIN can contain letters and special characters in addition to numbers), and if you have strong security protecting your device against physical access and malware, then this may be an acceptable compromise. Another option is to set up your browser extension to never lock itself. This is very insecure, as it makes the encryption key available on your device with minimal protection.
For your auto-fill issues, we will need more information. When you go to a webpage where you expect the autofill to work, do you see an overlay containing a number (e.g., 1) on the Bitwarden icon at the top of your browser? When you click the Bitwarden icon at the top of your browser, do you see a vault entry at the top of the browser extension Window (and if so, does that entry correspond to the one that you want to autofill on that website?)?
When I go to a webpage for which I have imported the username&password from Google to Bitwarden,there is no any overlay containing a number.
If I press the keyboard shortcut keys,the auto-fill feature doesn’t work.
When I created the Bitwarden forum account today,the Bitwarden extension stored the username&password and when I access the site there is an overlay containing number 1.
And the auto-fill feature works.
Edit: I’ve also noticed that there are many,many duplicates of same accounts.
If you open any of the vault items that were imported from Google (the ones for which autofill doesn’t work), click “edit” in the upper right corner of the browser extension, and look below the Username/Password/TOTP fields, do you see one or more fields titled “URI1” (and/or “URI2”, “URI3”, etc.), or do you just see “+ New URI”?
If you see any numbered URI fields, please copy their exact contents (the full text string, from beginning to end) and share with us here.
If you just see “+ New URI”, please copy the full contents of the “Name” field, and share with us here.
Thank you for providing the requested information. So it seems that the Bitwarden import of the “Chrome Passwords.csv” that you exported from the Chrome Password Manager was not successful.
Do you still have a copy of that exported .csv file? If so, can you open it in Excel (or LibreCalc, or any other spreadsheet software), and confirm that the column titles are name, url, username, and password? If not, please share what column titles you see in the first row of the exported file. In addition, please confirm that the url column does not contain blank entries.
OK, I should be able to guide you through a process of re-importing the data to fix your autofill problem (and also take care of your duplicates). Because this involves purging your vault contents, you have to decide what to do with any entries that you have added to your Bitwarden vault after you imported your Google passwords (e.g., your password for this forum); I assume that you will want to preserve these (however, if the forum password is literally the only one that you added, perhaps you can just jot down the password somewhere and manually add it back later). Furthermore, please confirm that you have not uploaded file attachments to any of your vault items, because preserving these will add some complexity to the process.
Start by exporting your Bitwarden vault contents as a .CSV file, and opening this file in Excel. Then do the following:
Sort the spreadsheet on the column login_uri.
Count the number of rows that have a non-blank value in the login_uri column, as well as the total number of rows (except the first row that has the column titles).
Assuming that the number of rows with non-blank values in the login_uri column is small, visually check whether there are any duplicates among these rows.
Sort the spreadsheet again, this time using the name column.
Visually scan the the rows to confirm that you are seeing duplicate rows (corresponding to the duplicate records that you’ve seen in your vault).
Close the file (it is probably safest not to save the file when you are prompted by Excel).
Now open the “Chrome Passwords.csv” in Excel, and do the following:
Count the total number of rows (except the first row that has the column titles).
Sort the spreadsheet on the column name.
Visually scan the the rows to check whether there appear to be any duplicate rows (corresponding to the duplicate records that you’ve seen in your vault).
Close the file (it is probably safest not to save the file when you are prompted by Excel).
Once you’ve provided all the info requested above, I can device a plan that will fix your vault.
No problem. In Excel, select all of the data in the spreadsheet (including the column headers), using Ctrl+A. Then click on the Data tab at the top of the Excel window, and look for an icon labelled “Sort” near the center of the Data tab ribbon. Click on the “Sort” icon, which brings up a small pop-up Window, as shown below. Make sure that the checkbox labeled “My data has headers” is checked (see #1 in the screenshot below), and then select the desired column header from the dropdown selection tool labeled “Sort by” (see #2 in the screenshot below). Then click “OK”.
Since you said previously that your Bitwarden vault contains “many,many duplicates of same accounts”, these duplicates must also be present in the Bitwarden.csv file. Perhaps you forgot to re-sort the file using the “name” column before checking for duplicates.
Also, I assume that the one entry in Bitwarden.csv that had a non-blank entry in the “login_uri” column was your username and password for this community forum.
In any case, I would suggest that you proceed as follows:
Make a copy of your “Chrome Passwords.csv” file; let’s call it “Conditioned.csv”.
Open “Conditioned.csv” in Excel, and change the column names as follows (making sure to use all lowercase letters):
a. url ⇒ login_uri
b. username ⇒ login_username
c. password ⇒ login_password
In Excel, select all of the data in the spreadsheet (including the column headers), using Ctrl+A, then click on the Data tab, and look for an icon labelled “Data Tools” in the ribbon (it should be to the right of the “Sort” and “Filter” icons); click the “Data Tools” icon, and then click “Remove Duplicates” to bring up a small window for deleting duplicate entries. In this small window, check the checkbox labeled “My data has headers”. Finally, uncheck the checkmark in front of the column name, and ensure that a checkmark is placed in front of the column names login_uri, login_username and login_password, then click “OK”. Make a note of how many duplicate values were removed, and how many unique values remain (this information will be displayed in a success message).
Make a 5th column by entering the column title type (lowercase) to the right of the login_password column. For every (non-empty) row that remains in the spreadsheet, enter the value login (lowercase) into the type column. You can do this quickly by entering the value once, copying that cell, then selecting the remaining cells in the type column and pressing Ctrl+V.
Save the file, then close it.
Make a copy of your “Bitwarden.csv” file; let’s call it “BWkeep.csv”.
Open “BWkeep.csv” in Excel.
Using the method described previously, select all of the data, open the “Sort” tool, and check “My data has headers”. In the “Sort by” dropdown, select “type”; also change the Order from “A to Z” to “Z to A”. Then, click the + Add Level button, which creates a second “Sort by” selector; in this second “Sort by” dropdown, select “login_uri”; leave the Order as “A to Z”. Then click “OK”.
Look in the type column, and check whether you have any rows where the type value is note instead of login. Count the number of such rows if you find any, and let me know.
Select all rows in which the type column says loginand the login_uri column is empty. Delete those rows.
Save the file, then close it.
In principle, you are now ready to purge your vault contents and re-import the two .csv files. However, before we continue, let’s take stock of how things went with the instructions above.
I’m having trouble parsing the above. Can you confirm that you were looking in the “type” column (not “login column”), and that it contained no cells with the value “note”, only values with the value “login”?
Furthermore, does the BWkeep.csv spreadsheet now only contain two rows (the row with the column headers, plus the one row that had a non-empty value in the “login_uri” column?
2.for the “BWkeep.csv”, - there are no any rows where the type value is note instead of login
3.I don’t understand your question :
“Furthermore, does the BWkeep.csv spreadsheet now only contain two rows (the row with the column headers, plus the one row that had a non-empty value in the “login_uri ” column?”
Now I’m confused. Originally you showed a screenshot that (presumably) was taken after Step 3 of my instructions; it showed that out of 204 original rows, 61 duplicates were removed, thus leaving 143 unique rows. But now, you are showing a second screenshot (produced how? at what point in the process?), which shows that out of 204 original rows, only 1 duplicate was removed, leaving 203 unique rows.
If you have not followed the instructions exactly (which, if you did, should not have produced two different screenshots, depicting completely different results from the Excel deduplication tool), then it is possible that your new .csv files (Condition.csv and/or BWkeep.csv) are now corrupted. In which case it would be best if you start over from Step 1, to ensure that you don’t end up with garbage in your vault.
What I was asking about is the following: Please open the BWkeep.csv file in Excel, and examine its contents. If you have followed the instructions, it should now contain only two non-empty rows. The first non-empty row should contain the column headers (folder,favorite,type,name,notes,fields,reprompt,login_uri,login_username,login_password,login_totp). The second row should contain data corresponding to the login credentials for your account here on community.bitwarden.com. There should be no additional rows. I was asking for you to confirm whether this corresponds to what you are actually seeing in your BWkeep.csv file.
I have to confess that it is unclear to me what you have done or not done. For example, when you say that you’ve “redone the same thing for BWkeep.csv”, I would interpret that as saying that you applied the “same” steps to both Conditioned.csv and BWkeep.csv — which is not what was specified in my instructions. In addition, you have said above that Bitwarden.csv contained no duplicates and that only a single duplicate was found in the Conditioned.csv file, which are observations that contradict your original assertion that your Bitwarden vault had “many, many duplicates of same accounts” (a contradiction that suggests you may have made one or more mistakes). Furthermore, applying the same instructions for creating the Conditioned.csv file twice should yield identical results if the instructions were followed accurately (it follows that you made a mistake either the first time or the second time). For the reasons, I am personally not confident that your two .csv files are in good order.
Nonetheless, it is your data, so if you are confident that you’ve followed the instructions correctly, you can proceed with the rest of the instructions (with the disclaimer that it is your own responsibility if any data is lost or corrupted).
To proceed:
Log in the the Web Vault.
Click on the account profile icon in the upper right corner, and select “Account Settings”.
Scroll down to the section titled “Danger Zone”, and click on “Purge Vault”.
In the pop-up window, enter your master password and click “Purge Vault”.
Log out and log back in to the Web Vault. Confirm that the vault is completely empty.
Click “Tools” in the top navigation bar, and then click “Import data” in the lefthand navigation menu.
Under “File Format”, select “Bitwarden (csv)”.
Click the Choose File button, then select the BWkeep.csv file in the file picker, and click “Open”.
Click Import Data, and wait for the success message (which should say that “A total of 1 items were imported”), then click “OK”.
Click “Tools” in the top navigation bar, and then click “Import data” in the lefthand navigation menu.
Under “File Format”, select “Bitwarden (csv)”.
Click the Choose File button, then select the Conditioned.csv file in the file picker, and click “Open”.
Click Import Data, and wait for the success message (which will most likely say that “A total of 203 items were imported”), then click “OK”.
Click on the account profile icon in the upper right corner, and select “Account Settings”.
Scroll down to the section titled “Danger Zone”, and click on “Deauthorize Sessions”.
In the pop-up window, enter your master password and click “Deauthorize Sessions”.
I know nothing about Android or the mobile app; I’d suggest starting a new forum thread for that.
In your Brave browser click this link to install the browser extension.
Yes, you should absolutely enable some form of 2FA for your Bitwarden account. If you have a premium subscription, and if you can afford a Yubikey and feel comfortable using one, then the strongest form of 2FA is the WebAuthn/FIDO2 option (which can be set up using a Yubikey).
If you haven’t already done so, please prepare an Emergency Sheet, and store it securely. At a minimum, your Emergency Sheet should contain the following information:
The server on which your account is hosted (bitwarden.com or bitwarden.eu).
The email address that you use as your Bitwarden login username.
*Backups: On a regular basis (depending on how frequently you make updates to your vault contents), you should be creating backups of your vault. The easiest way of doing this securely is to log in to your Web Vault and creating a password-protected export. Detailed instructions for how to do this are available here.
