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Converting from PasswordBoss

Forum|Forum|1 year ago
April 4, 2025
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Hello

We are an MSP delivering password boss to our customers as a part of the MSP services. We are switching to 1Password because of useability issues with PB. I have a large number of passwords used by my MSP team, many have MFA tokens and all are organized by folders. When doing a CSV export from PB it does not appear the folder names are in plain English and it also does not appear that the MFA token will export, which does make sense. I searched the community and saw one post for passwordboss conversion. Any help or tips on how to make this a smooth migration would be much appreciated.

Non-Technical Question

MrC

Hi @lanroverumit ,

You can use the passwordboss converter in the mrc_converter_suite.

Here's the thread that contains the download location. With 1Password's change of forum software, I no longer have a good method for maintaining an updated landing page for the suite.

MrC

@lanroverumit

Doh! You're not missing anything. Sorry, I forgot to paste the link into my response.

The Dropbox link you've posted is for Custom converters I provide periodically to users.

L

lanroverumitAuthor

Thanks so much. - Not seeing a thread in your response. I did find this thread which has a link to a dropbox location but it is empty

mrc convertor issue from PasswordBoss [Solved] | 1Password Community

https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/087jaba73ezd0zf005akb/AJ6IangU43-6606PGN4VhZY?rlkey=mrsu4fyj3ckbcdoecefwu7oor&dl=0

What am I missing?

MrC

@lanroverumit

Just a quick check-in to see if you need any assistance.

L

lanroverumitAuthor

I was able to figure out the MRC converter and get the data out of Password boss and into 1Password. Passwordboss has recently moved to a web only version and its terrible, hence the move to 1password. I tried to export using unencrypted json file from the web version and it did not work. Fortunately, before I moved to the web version I exported the desktop version and that that export available and was able to use the MRC converter. My guess is you will get more clients because of the terrible software from password boss web only version so you might want to update your MRC converter to support this. Thanks so much for the support

MrC

@lanroverumit

Thanks for the update, and the heads-up that the web version of their product does not produce a usable JSON export. I'll take a look at the web export to see if the converter is at fault, or if the export is problematic.

Enjoy 1Password!

MrC

Commenting for the record...

I've looked at the PasswordBoss web export. Unfortunately they've completely botched the character encoding. Encoding of JSON characters must be UTF-8, but they seem to be writing just one byte of a UTF-16 encoded character.

Example: character å should be UTF-8 encoded as 0xC3 0xA5, but they are writing 0xE5, which is only part of the UTF-16 encoding 0x00E5. The character ∫ should be UTF-8 encoded as 0xE2 0x88 0xAB, but they are writing 0x2B, which is only part of UTF-16 0x222B.

So this would be a very broken conversion. Until they fix their web export's JSON character encoding, I'm not going to attempt to support converting this format. I will update the converter to abort with a warning about the problem.

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