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lanroverumit
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27 days ago

Converting from PasswordBoss

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.  

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  • MrC's avatar
    MrC
    Super Contributor
    22 days ago

    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.

  • MrC's avatar
    MrC
    Super Contributor
    22 days ago

    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!

    • lanroverumit's avatar
      lanroverumit
      New Contributor
      23 days ago

      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's avatar
    MrC
    Super Contributor
    26 days ago

    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's avatar
      MrC
      Super Contributor
      26 days ago

      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.