Importing from Bitwarden to my vault - "Cannot read properties of null"

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I can’t import my data after exporting it from Bitwarden. When I try to import the data, I get an error message in a dialog box:

Cannot read properties of null (reading ‘has’)

My aim was to transfer logins from my organisational vault back into my personal vault by exporting the organisational vault, importing it into my personal vault and deleting the entries from my personal vault. There are only 2 entries in the organisational vault. The organisation is just personal - I was experimenting with sharing logins between two personal accounts, both mine.

The data I exported was in my organisation vault. I’m trying to import the logins back into my personal vault.

I exported the data to a .json file. When importing the file, I selected Bitwarden (json) as the file format.

This error occurs both in the Bitwarden app (2025.10.0) and from the web via the latest version of Chrome (142.0.7444.135), both on Windows 11 25H2 with the November update.

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I’m not sure if importing of organization vault data into a personal vault is supported (the JSON format is different depending on the vault type), but at a minimum, this should fail with a more meaningful error message. If you report it as a bug (“New Issue”) on GitHub, perhaps devs will confirm whether this type of import is supposed to be supported.

In the meantime, if you only have a few exported items in the JSON file, you can manually edit the file to remove the three key-value pairs "id", "organizationId", and "folderId" from each vault item. You should then be able to import the file into your individual vault.

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These 3 key-values can be removed massively with jq (regardless of how many items the json export has):

jq 'del(.items[].id) | del(.items[].organizationId) | del(.items[].folderId)'

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Thanks. It worked.

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For future reference, OP’s bug report is here:

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