Migrating my wife and I from LastPass Family (2 users) to Bitwarden; either two Premium Accounts or a Family Account.
We both have exported from LastPass our LP Vaults to CSV Files.
Our CSV files have all our individual entries plus items that are part of a Shared Folder (named sfnameNNNNNNNNN). The items with that “grouping” are the same records in both CSV files
Both CSV files include all the items from sfnameNNNNNNNNN (A Shared Folder that was shared by me to my wife’s account)
When I imported the CSV into my new BitWarden account, the folder named sfnameNNNNNNNNN was there.
When I import my wife’s CSV file into her account, how do I deal with those entries in that previously shared folder?
Do I delete the folder in her account before doing whatever sharing I do with our setup? Or will the sharing process in Bitwarden recognize the set of entries as being previously shared?
My intent is to get our setup as similar to the LastPass setup:
2 Users having their own vaults.
One of my folders (collection?) shared with my wife and hopefully it will be read only.
It’s a bit confusing when considering two Premium Accounts vs Families. And Folders vs Collections. And where does Organization fit into this scheme.
Maybe I’m just looking for a write up on best practices for what I believe is a pretty common scenario.
One other question would be if I set ourselves up with 2 Premium Accounts and later upgrade to the Family Account, would this be seamless or will there be tweaking to do after upgrading?
I don’t know that I can answer all of your questions, but hopefully I can get you started.
FYI, in Bitwarden, sharing is done via a so-called “Organization Vault” (which is distinct from all individual vaults, and is owned by an individual account). Within organization vaults, items are organized into “Collections” for purposes of setting up a common set of access permissions for all items in the collection. Within individual vaults, items are organized into “Folders”, strictly for purposes of visual organization and search filtering.
When importing into a Bitwarden account, it is not possible to simultaneously import into an individual vault and an organization vault. So, you imported all data into your individual vault, and a folder named “sfnameNNNNNNNNN” was created. That is not a problem — you will be able to move the items from that folder into your organization later.
Bitwarden does not have a way of merging duplicate entries, so your best course of action is to delete all “sfnameNNNNNNNNN” items from your wife’s .CSV file before doing the import into her individual vault (assuming that the “sfnameNNNNNNNNN” items in her .CSV file match exactly the “sfnameNNNNNNNNN” items in your .CSV file). If you have already imported her “sfnameNNNNNNNNN” items, then you can bulk delete them (from the Web Vault).
This can definitely be done. You would re-assign the ownership of the “sfnameNNNNNNNNN” items from your individual account to the organization, and create a collection for those items in the organization. The access permission (no access, view only, or permissions to add, edit, and delete items) for shared collections can be configured for each member of the organization.
With two premium accounts, you can set up a free organization, which may be sufficient for your purposes, but does have some limitations (for example, the free organizations can only include two members, including yourself; it can only contain 2 collections; also, shared items cannot have file attachments, and will not show up in the premium Vault Health Reports). With a paid organization plan, you can share with more than one person, you can set up an unlimited number of collections, and all premium features will apply to shared items (as well as to items in each individual vault).
If my first paragraph above did not clarify this, please let me know.
Thanks for the great information. I’m getting a better understanding of how it all works. I’ve been looking through the other community posts and responses (I’ve seen you helping others as well).
In a way, I guess that Bitwarden is very flexible in how it can be utilized; from the simple to a very complicated setup. The use case for two individuals that have a handful of shared items is a pretty simple structure. So the complicated needs to be distilled down to a simple setup.
I’m going to spend some time reading the documentation and viewing the videos available along with reading through the threads at the Community site.
I want to have a good handle on the whole thing before I drag my wife over after using LastPass for a bunch of years; I need to have a happy household
Thanks again and I may be back with more questions.
