Importing to Passwords

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Can passwords from another manager vault (KASP) be imported into the Avast Manager?
Thank you

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The short and simple answer is no.

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The longer answer is “Not yet” :wink:

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Hello
I hope that this feature will appear soon because all my password are on LastPass and I would prefear to use only one program (Avast Internet Security) :wink:
Thanks

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I’d go further: Avast Passwords doesn’t even import from it’s export (to .csv) mechanism, it seems. I’d love to be proved wrong! I’m facing over 150 hand-inserted sites, usernames and passwords, to recover from re-installing Windows.

It might be argued that the csv mechanism is not very secure. It isn’t, except I keep mine on an encrypted drive.

Regards,

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You can enable synchronization and retrieve the passwords with that in case something happened.

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Thanks for answering!

I had enabled synchronisation, but it seemed to do very little. What does it synchronise with? The Browser? How do you point it to the .csv file?

This would save me a lot of work!!!

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https://www.avast.com/faq.php?article=AVKB255

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Since you download to a CSV file, Can you import that file ???
If so, How ???

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The csv file is only to have a copy of the sites/passwords for the user.
As has been explained by avast in other threads, it is not meant as a backup of the sites/passwords to import them (again) in the tool.

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Okay, well I figured it out. I can just view the CSV files in notepad or something.

Good advice out there for anyone reading.

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That’s correct. CSV simply means that the values are comma separated.
You can use that information to manually sign into the various sites and then have the
password manager again remember that sign-in information.

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Has anyone achieved importing a .csv file into Passwords on OS X ?
I’m fighting with 1password .csv export with the following structure as prompted in the Passwords importation wizard without success :

"Notes","Password","Title","Type","URL","Username",

Which .csv template did you use ?

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Has anyone achieved importing a .csv file into Passwords on OS X ?
No, ofcourse not as it is meant for importing in other password managers and for the user so (s)he have a human readable file as backup.
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What real good is a csv file of my passwords that I can look at if I can’t get it back (imported INTO) the password file during that csv file. I want an easier way to put all my passwords INTO the password manager so I wanted to add them to a csv file and then import them. It seems like it should be a reasonable function of a password manager…

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https://www.avast.com/faq.php?article=AVKB254
https://www.avast.com/faq.php?article=AVKB255

As has been explained, the csv file is there so humans have a readable backup and it can be used to import the passwords into other password managers.

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Hi lkshoppingdeals,

There is a feature “Synchronization and backup” for a case you describe. Eporting to csv is for a situation when you want to stop using Avast Passwords and want to migrate your passwords to another password manager.

But thank you for your feedback. We will consider implementing import from csv feature.

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Hello Thomas !

Yes, please do that and implement a csv-import into Avast-Passwords.

Saving encrypted passwords is really important so that they can be backed up,
not only on the AVAST-Cloud, but also independently on the user’s own
computer.

I always have trouble with the “Sync & Backup” functionality in connection
with my AVAST-Account and migrating to a new computer would be MUCH EASIER
if there were a simple CSV-re-import function in AVAST-Passwords.

Thanks in advance, but do please implement this function.

Best Regards,
gradenigo1