Question about switching from LastPass to Bitwarden

I finally made the switch from LastPass to Bitwarden last week after that big breach in 2022. The difference in how they handle sharing passwords with family is night and day. Bitwarden lets me create separate folders for each person and set exact permissions without paying extra. LastPass wanted $48 a year just for basic family sharing. Has anyone else found the import process tricky or is it just me messing something up?

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harper_wright1mo agoMost Upvoted

Oh the import was a pain for me too, kept losing my secure notes with the attachments. I ended up having to export everything to a CSV file first and then clean it up in Excel before importing again. What finally worked was exporting each folder one at a time from LastPass instead of doing the whole vault at once. Did you try the manual import option through the Bitwarden web vault or did you use the browser extension tool?

keith26418d agoMost Upvoted

Exactly. @harper_wright nailed it with the folder by folder thing. I swear I spent two days fighting with that attachment issue before I gave up and tried that method. The CSV cleanup was a pain but totally worth it in the end. I ended up using the web vault import after messing with the browser tool twice and having it fail on me. The browser extension just kept timing out with my vault size. Had to manually fix some date fields in Excel too, took me like an hour and a half total but at least it all went through clean in the end. That blog post from Bitwarden really helped me figure out what was going wrong. Kinda wish I'd found it before I wasted all that time.

wright.kevin1mo ago

Read a blog post from the Bitwarden team that said exporting folders one by one avoids the note attachment issue entirely. I had the same problem and @harper_wright is right about the CSV cleanup being a lifesaver. Used the manual web vault import instead of the browser tool and it worked much smoother for me. Still had to fix a few date formats in Excel but got everything transferred in about an hour total.