![]() ![]() It generates strong passwords, automatically logs you into websites and apps, and stores your sensitive data in an encrypted vault. LastPass is a popular password manager that offers a secure way to store and manage all of your online passwords in one place. ![]() To do this, open the LastPass extension in Chrome and click on the ‘More Options’ button.įrom here, you will be able to select Chrome as the browser you want to import your data from.Īfter selecting Chrome, you’ll be able to choose the logins and other data you want to import. Yes, LastPass can import your data from Chrome. How to Import Passwords and Credentials from Chrome.This time you should notice the icon next to all items is not the purple pen (secure note), but the white box (website). Now hit Replace, save the file, and try the import. Use Ctrl-Enter to split the lines in the find and replace fields. You now want to find and replace all instances of the URL field where it’s blank, but not where it’s not.Replace all to remove leading spaces / tabs Press Ctrl-H to find and replace, click the Regex button, and use this string ^+ and make sure nothing is typed into the replace box. Remove leading whitespace from the XML file, otherwise the following step won’t work.To do the above, using Sublime Text Editor: I gave mine this: http:/0 as if you accidentally attempt to launch the website we don’t want LastPass attempting to send your credentials to a website that actually exists like (yes, it exists…) What you need to do is edit your XML file before importing to give the URL field some value. So if you’re like me and didn’t really bother putting anything in the URL field in some / many / all of your entries in KeePass, you’ll need to do the following. Anything else will become a “Secure Note” of type “General”. Anything you import that had something in the URL field in KeePass will be stored into a website item. LastPass stores items as different object types. I used KeePass to store credentials for websites, banking, etc., as well as other personal info like driver’s licence info etc. Problem: Items are imported as note ITEMS, not website ITEMS For me at least, it worked on the second or third try. Again – don’t attempt this in any other browser than Firefox, results are highly unreliable in Chrome! Then simply re-attempt to import. Delete the folder that may or may not have been imported into LastPass by right-clicking on the folder in the web interface. The process can still hang, and I scoured the XML file for possible issues, however I learned after much trial and error that the hanging was random and not related to strange characters.To do this, right click on your folder in KeePass and there’s your option to export As per Tip #2 above, split up your export into different XML files, one per top-level folder. My KeePass database had a folder structure.There’s no obvious way to change this later. If you export the whole database, the result is that *all* your folders will be in a top-level folder. Tip #2: if you used folders in KeePass, consider exporting each folder as a separate XML file. Don’t question this, just install Firefox and run the import in Firefox. Sounds simple, but fraught with the following problems. ![]() You have to export to XML then upload the XML. LastPass supports importing from KeePass. Here I document my migration woes, for no other reason than to provide help to anyone who might be googling for this info! The import So I finally bit the bullet and decided to migrate to LastPass, after months of frustration trying to access my password safe from ChromeOS. Not to mention it only gives read-only access to the password safe. Manual search in CKP doesn’t work properly and despite the good reviews overall the experience in my opinion is poor. CKP has 4.5 stars in the Chrome app store, but I’ve found this browser extension clunky and annoying to say the least. There are a few Chrome extensions that provide access to KeePass. But since starting to use a Chromebook I’ve been increasingly frustrated in this area. KeePass has been an excellent password companion for the last 6 years and I’ve been using MiniKeePass for iOS, loading my password safe from Dropbox quite happily. This blog post details the technical difficulties faced when trying to migrate from using KeePass to LastPass. ![]()
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