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Just a reminder: if you are deciding to migrate from LastPass to something else, the password export malfunctions for unknown reasons. If you have memos, it cou
by clumsysmurf 4y ago
Just a reminder: if you are deciding to migrate from LastPass to something else, the password export malfunctions for unknown reasons. If you have memos, it could be a character in the memo.
You must make sure the exported CSV file has everything!
- danmur 4y agoIt also didn't export attachments when I used it (long while ago now though)
- r1cka 4y agoThis is years ago now, but every ampersand in my passwords came across wrong. I can't recall if it was missing or url encoded, but even passwords weren't safe.
- xd1936 4y agoI'm still finding passwords in Bitwarden to old accounts that have `&` in them. Thanks, LastPass!
- userbinator 4y agoThat is especially surprising, considering that passwords are more than likely going to contain special characters.
- eru 4y agoLastPass's own generator puts them in there.
- fomine3 4y agoAvoid such trouble is why I want to avoid using symbols for password. Just use more alphanum characters for strength.
- xnickb 4y agoOr just use proper tools that work.
- r_c_a_d 4y agoI want to as well, but annoyingly there are many sites that insist on a "special" character because their strength measure says "low" for the 20 character alphanumeric string I generated %-}
- wonderwonder 4y agoMy favorite is when they actually limit what special characters you can use. Must include 1 of x special characters. Why? I always just assume they baked their own password storage and couldn't figure out how to handle the whole set of special characters
- jaywalk 4y agoMultiple times I've found that this is caused by a web application firewall that is intended to mitigate SQL injection attacks. So they disallow the characters that would commonly be used in those attacks.
- wonderwonder 4y agoInteresting, I had never considered that
- 4y ago
- waynesonfire 4y ago> the password export malfunctions oh wow, what a surprise.
- shortstuffsushi 4y agoThis really hurt me last year, when I migrated away. I didn't realize at the time how much didn't come with, so I've been playing the reset / recovery game since.
- danuker 4y agoI feel your pain. I switched to KeePassXC, and will never use an online password manager again. For a password management company, they can't even be bothered to fuzz their export functionality. QuickCheck works unreasonably well on `import(export(a)) == a`. But maybe it's intended to be buggy, in order to keep you in their walled garden. Clearly the sync between devices works, so they have solved this problem.
- danarmak 4y ago> Clearly the sync between devices works, so they have solved this problem. Presumably they don't use CSV to sync, they're using a saner json/etc. data structure that they're not letting us export ourselves. Seriously, being limited to CSV in this day and age...
- dzhiurgis 4y agoI keep thinking I should reset my passwords anyway (not moving of apples keychain tho) and should probably just move off using gmail at same time!
- Tyrubias 4y agoUh oh, now I’m paranoid my LastPass export didn’t have everything, and I deleted my account years ago
- a2800276 4y agoPersonally, I'm more paranoid concerning whether the deletion actually worked when I deleted my LastPass three or four major security incidents ago...
- riwsky 4y agoToo much work. At that point, it’s easier to just hack the LastPass servers.
- jjeaff 4y agoI migrated from LastPass years ago and ran across this error. Sounds like they still haven't fixed it.
- Spunkie 4y agoAlso if you try to export multiple times it will start spitting out exports full of duplicates. Only safe way is to export right after a fresh session login.
- heleninboodler 4y agoWow. Is LastPass generally just really bad software? These bugs mentioned in this subthread make it sound like amateur hour.
- Fire-Dragon-DoL 4y agoIt's packed with enormous amount of bugs that make the day to day experience terrible. I want to move but I'm terrified of the export process
- deleted 4y ago[deleted]
- hgomersall 4y agoI moved to 1password a few years ago and haven't regretted it for a second. I still have Lastpass installed, but it's probably getting to the point I can delete it.
- POPOSYS 4y agoOK, wait, you still are using some other cloud password provider?
- komadori 4y agoI moved to BitWarden a year ago after a billing problem with LastPass that their support handled badly. I haven't had any problems with the migrated data and I finally deleted my LastPass account last month.
- jonno123 4y ago
- somehnguy 4y agoWell, this completely explains where one of my Truecrypt volume passwords disappeared to after migrating away from LastPass years ago. Too bad the account has long since been deleted.
- Fire-Dragon-DoL 4y agoIs there an api to fetch all the data instead?
- greyhair 4y agoBeing that the blob is never decrypted off your local machine, it would have to be a local data API.
- Fire-Dragon-DoL 4y agoThat's fine too! They seem to have a CLI to export attachments!
- a_c 4y agoI'm curious what did people migrate to, and is there any feature disparities?
- dodgerdan 4y ago1Password. The largest feature disparity is 1password is designed and built by competent engineers. The history of breaches and technical mistakes Lastpass has made over the years is amazing for a tech company let alone a password manager.
- delecti 4y agoHow is the user experience though? "Designed and built by competent engineers" is reassuring in the face of security breaches, but often means it's less convenient to interact with on a day-to-day basis.
- joshstrange 4y ago1Password has the best UI/UX of any that I've used. It's clean, pretty, and solid in my experience. Honestly it's a joy to use which I prioritize in the software I choose to use daily.
- DrudgeCorporate 4y agoI've tried LastPass, 1password, and Bitwarden. Bitwarden has been my favorite as I can selfhost it if I want (open source fork with feature parity)
- andrewinardeer 4y agoBut do you self host it?
- DrudgeCorporate 4y agoYes, I do.
- neuronexmachina 4y agoIs it obvious that it failed (e.g. displays an error), or does it just silently skip over the entry?
- aussieguy1234 4y agoI just exported my own vault with the latest version, it was ok for me. I have plenty of passwords with all kinds of special characters. Still, be sure to review the CSV file. If anything looks weird, double check that the password is the same in your LastPass vault. As with all backups/exports, you should always do a sanity check of the data. One issue I ran into: the CSV file that "downloaded" in the browser didn't have all of my passwords, only about ~20 of ~400. I had to copy and paste the CSV text in the browser to a new CSV file with a text editor. But upon reviewing that, the format of the passwords was fine.
- BrandoElFollito 4y agoI had a problem not with the password data but with the content of some notes (or whatever it is called in LastPass) I have been a paying customer of Lastpass for about 15 years. I moved to Bitwarden for all sorts of reasons. I work in technical information security so it was also for that teason (but not only)
- ilyt 4y agoWe were considering self-hosting but sadly Bitwarden is still stuck on MS SQL ;/ There was some apparently compatible rust implmementation in PostgreSQL tho...
- BrandoElFollito 4y agoHave you tried Vaultwarden? (Ex bitwarden_rs). It is in Rust and it's absolutely fantastic. I self host it for a year or two and it is a single container. The BW officer docker distribution is a nightmare. Add to that a proxy with caddy and you get a great solution.
- selenophile 4y agoWhat would be considered a good alternative?
- TacoSteemers 4y agoBitwarden, Keypass and 1password seem to be some of the most popular ones.
- neurostimulant 4y agoBitwarden is great. There is even an opensource implementation of bitwarden server you can self-host that includes premium features for free.
- aceazzameen 4y agoMaybe I lucked out? I migrated to Bitwarden early this year and so far all of my passwords have worked. I also made sure to compare the site entries in both. One thing that can't transfer were attachments in LastPass secure notes. So I had to download each one individually and upload them to Bitwarden.
- JTbane 4y agoMan, outputting data to a CSV is a very difficult computing problem. /schadenfreude
- avnigo 4y agoYeah, in any migration—if you can—it's good practice to run both simultaneously for a while until you're convinced you've checked everything and you're ready to drop the old for the new without much downtime.