Is there a way to move items in one organization to another organization both of which my account has access?
Not directly, no. Once an item is in the organization, it is owned by the organization.
But what you can do is clone the item to your personal vault and then move it to the second organization. Once you have successfully completed this, you can delete the original if you like. Cheers!
OK - that’s unfortunate.
Is there a way to move items between collections in the same organization?
To be clear - is there a bulk method of moving items to another collection?
Is there a bulk cloning method?
I can’t believe there aren’t any other data management methods than one.at.a.time?!?! Please tell me I’m missing something?
Some bulk operations are available if you use the web interface (e.g., for Bitwarden-hosted organizations, you would use the website https://vault.bitwarden.com to perform bulk operations).
I believe some of the Bitwarden folks have mentioned that they are working on some improvements to bulk operations, but I am not sure where they are at or what those improvements will be.
In the meantime, if you would like to see more capabilities added, feel free to add your votes to support some of the more commonly requested features so that they “rise up” in the priority queue for consideration by the devs:
https://community.bitwarden.com/t/move-items-between-my-vault-and-organizations/975
Cheers!
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So basically - there’s no easy way to do this other than cast “votes” - I really do like BW for all it does, but making it near impossible to easily manage data once it’s in BW seems like a HUGE oversight for whoever makes those decisions.
Just as LP made a huge misstep with their user base which led to a mass exodus - wouldn’t be much for one of the other established firms (or another new startup) to offer a significant discount for current paid BW members to siphon them away.
Does the Enterprise version also have these limitations? If so, then that’s one way to ensure not having wide-spread adoption.
/soapbox
That said - thanks for replying - even if it’s to confirm there is no good answer at the moment.
The user interface for managing items within organizations is the same regardless of whether you are an enterprise subscriber or not, to the best of my knowledge. Perhaps @bw-admin can correct me if I am wrong.
Please remember that Bitwarden is the newest password manager on the enterprise scene and many features are still being implemented, including what you are seeking. Also, they aren’t the size of the big players like 1Password (a $6.8 B company with 100s of employees), so development priorities seem to be very focused at the moment.
Thankfully, the BW folks seem to be churning out improvements all the time regardless, so I have no doubt that this will get addressed sometime in the near future. In the meantime, yes, you will have to use some manual labour. Sorry!
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That’s correct @dh024, the experience of moving organization items will be the same regardless of organization type.
@BWUser00 along with our internal feedback, we use community votes to help gauge and address a balance of individual/family, teams/enterprise and MSP features. We take all feedback into consideration and have implemented many community suggestions over the years. Bitwarden is also an open source project and community members are welcome to propose code/features here.
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There is a much simpler workaround for batch moving passwords from one organization to another. Just export all passwords from the source organization to a CSV file (I suggest saving to a USB stick so you can easily wipe it later). Open/edit in a local spreadsheet app or even a text editor and delete the lines you don’t want to move. Then import the edited CSV into the destination organization. After confirming successful import, delete the passwords you duplicated from the source organization. It can be helpful to organize the passwords you want to move into their own collection in the source organization before moving them so it’s easy to isolate them in the CSV file and to delete them from the source organization after the move. This will be MUCH easier than the one-by-one cloning method suggested above (and far less prone to human error), but you need to be careful with security any time you are making a local copy of a password vault.
Seems that there is a way, check the items you want to move (be careful only to click the checkbox, if you click on the item, it will open and all the checkboxes will be cleared…). After selecting the items you want to move click on the … at the very top :
and chose “move to different organization”…
Ahh - yes - from the web vault - doesn’t appear to be an option from the desktop app. That’s certainly better than nothing!
But if I’m not mistaken, this option only let’s you move personal items to an organisation, not items that are already owned by another organisation.
If you select more than one item, you get the following information:
Move selected to organisation
Choose an organisation that you wish to move these items to. Moving to an organisation transfers ownership of the items to that organisation. You will no longer be the direct owner of these items once they have been moved.
You have selected 3 item(s). 1 item(s) can be moved to an organisation, 2 cannot.
I got this problem by experimenting with an organisation still having a free account.
After testing and trying I was convinced to purchase a family subscription.
Which happens to DEMAND a new organisation. You cant pick the one already setup.
Gave it the same name which only confuses even more because now I got two menu-items.
Deleted the new one, which removed my family plan subscription also. Maybe because it was within trial periode of 7 days.
Anyway, items moved from personal fault tot test organisation cant be moved to the “family plan organisation” …
This really seems a problem when movin from 2 person organization to family. It seems that it is not possible to convert old organization to family, I made new organization and now I cannot move the items to new family organization. Only way seems to be to export/import… It seems tha cloning items to personal vault is also not allowed.
E: Strange, in the vault view, entries belonging to organization cannot be cloned. In Organization I can clone it but I cannot choose collection in another organization.
Unfortunately not. I had premium, I read in the documentation that I should take family plan (It was offered when creating organization) and cancel premium.
Edit: Stupid mistake, should have continued with the old organization and not to create a new one. Sorry!
Try cloning from the new browser extension UI. Instead of opening the item, click the three vertical buttons, and choose the “Clone” option. This will open the cloned item in and Edit view, and at the top, you will have an option to select the “Owner”. Does this let you move the item to your Family org?
Sorry for the delay. I don’t know do I have a new browser plugin. Screenshot of the plugin seems different on Botwarden site than what I have. I’m using Firefox with the Bitwarden extension version 2024.12.3 which seems newest. I cannot find three vertical buttons or clone option in the extension.
I checked again the Clone option in web vault. In Admin console, for items in organization the clone option is available and I can choose another organization as destination but it fails since I cannot choose collection. Same problem occurs with both organizations. I can clone an item from organization to my own vault.
In any case I did as was suggested before and exported the items and imported to different organization.
You seem to be stuck on the old UI (which does not have the functionality required to use the method that I described in my previous comment). This is likely because you are self-hosted. My understanding is that self-hosted users will get the new browser extension UI in version 2025.1.0, which is not yet out. And updates to the Firefox extension tend to lag behind the other browsers (due to a longer review period by Mozilla), so you may not be able to use the function I described until the end of the month (or later).
I’m not self-hosted and have bitwarden subscription from bitwarden.com (eu was not available at the time I took it, I wonder should I switch?). Browser extensions are from official stores. In case of FF and Chrome both stores show the extension dates 2024.12.x (updated ~30.12.2024).
E: I don’t see a way how to download the extension directly from Bitwarden site.
I’ve not read the whole thread thoroughly (besides, I think this was an old thread…).
If:
- you want to move all items in your old free org to the new family one
- AND you haven’t already moved any item from your old org to the new one
why don’t you just export the old org and import that into the new one?
And then, once you’ve checked there is nothing missing in the new family org, delete the old free org.
If you export it in json format it will move almost everything. This will also move passkeys (if you have any), which the item cloning method will not.
The only thing you would lose with the export+import are the items in the old org trash and the metadata of the moved items (creation and modification timestamps).