This feature is absolutely needed. I just came from 1 Password and subscribed to Bitwarden premium, I was hoping to be able to quick look or display the attachments without downloading them as in 1 Password. As it is the attachment (paid) function is useless
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Keeping some kind of local copy of attachments is a very necessary feature. If the tool offered this, signing up for premium would be a done deal - but without it, the value of premium is questionable. Consider a major emergency and you need to show a driverās license or some other sensitive information but cell or Wi-Fi isnāt available.
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Welcome, @urnotkosh to the community!
One thing to note about Bitwarden is that it is inherently an online password manager. When offline, one can unlock a vault that is already logged in and one can view password entries, but notably, one can not make changes when offline and one can not login when offline.
If you are looking for an encrypted off-line storage for files, you might check out veracrypt. It creates a folder on your PC into which you can store any file you would like.
Hi there,
An attachment preview without downloading would be nice, now you need to download the attachment, not very user-friendly.
We use Bitwarden company wide, so lots of attachments.
Thanks!
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Apparently Bitwarden has stated they will not support this.
Do you have a source/link for that statement?
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At some point just prior to 2024.9.2 being pushed out, on the web app when you clicked the attachment it opened in a new browser tab to view. 2024.9.2 reverted so that it had to be downloaded.
Opening PDFs in a browser tab never worked (at least not in Chrome and Edge), and it seems that was the reason why this was reverted.
2 years ago and no plans to fix/enhance viewing instead of downloading. Therefore there are no plans to support this.
I wasnāt trying to prove you wrong, just providing some background info for what likely lead to the 2024.9.2 release. But your most recent comment is not fair, because developers did come up with a fix in July 2022, although that evidently stopped working at a later date; nonetheless, even recent discussion among the devs indicates that they were trying to get this to work, but evidently ran into insurmountable issues with Chrome. So itās not like this issue has been ignored.
well isnāt that very thing that bitwarden is about, itās telling you a la the warden to go out and do your things this is a secured perimeter, ha.
Hola yo estarĆa interesado en que si subo una imagen a Bitwarden cuando quiera verla no tenga que descargarla
Gracias
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With the inability to bulk export (backup) and securely view attachments without downloading I generally gave up Bitwarden for attachments and view it as just a password manager (with limited features for attachments).
Also, while this was important at first and Iād still love this feature, there are so many other feature requests that I would rather have prioritized that improve the password manager experience. However, I havenāt removed my vote from this one yet, so I must be holding on to a little hope.
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Same here. And with the advancements in Appleās Password app, Iām finding Iām using Bitwarden much less often. Iāll likely not renew Bitwarden come next year.
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Seems like a very bizarre missing feature. Iād just like to have a secure photo of my Driverās licence in my Identity entry, so I can show it to people when Iām collecting parcels etc!
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This would help a lot, great suggestion!
I agree with you. Bitwarden has everything except that feature. We should view files without downloading them
+1 from me, I would make it more convenient AND also safer, since I do not have to download sensitive stuff to my phone/pc (and remember to delete it when im doneā¦).
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Is there still a chance that this much requested adjustment will be implemented?
It has āonlyā been requested for 7 yearsā¦
Whatever the issue was that prevented devs from getting this done last year would have to be resolved first: