Import Data to your Vault

Import data to your personal Bitwarden vault for easy migration from any password management solution. You can also import from one Bitwarden vault to another or import an encrypted export.

For a full list of supported import formats, refer to this FAQ item, or use one of these articles for importing from the most popular solutions:

• Import from LastPass

• Import from 1Password

• Import from Firefox

• Import from Google Chrome or Chromium

• Import from Password Safe

Import to your Personal Vault

Data can be imported to Bitwarden from the web vault or CLI. Data is encrypted locally before being sent to the server for storage. To import your data:

Troubleshooting

Length-related Import Errors

The following error messages, typically received when attempting to import a .csv, indicate that an item in your import file has a specified value that exceeds the allowed encrypted character limit for its field type:

To solve this issue, open the .csv file in a text editor or spreadsheet program and remove or reduce the character count of the offending item. Bitwarden won't import your .csv file until it is free of offenses. The contents of the error messages contain several pieces of pertinent data to help you identify the offending item. For example, in the above example:

• [1] identifies the index number where the offending item is located, adjusted to match row numbering in most spreadsheet programs.

• [Login] identifies the vault item type of the offending item.

• "Facebook" identifies the name of the offending item.

• Notes indicates the field (column) where the character limit is exceeded.

• 10000 indicates the character limit allowed for that field (column).

  tip

  On import, the character count of any given field is increased due to encryption, meaning that an 8000-character Notes field in your .csv will scale to 10,000+ characters when it comes into contact with Bitwarden, triggering this error. As a rule of thumb, character counts will grow between 30-50% when encrypted.

If you continue to have trouble locating the offending item using the data provided in the error, it may help to focus first on notes as these are frequently the cause of this error.