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Import has limited categories
It looks like Import only supports Logins, Credit Cards, and Notes. Please tell me I am missing something. I have hundreds of records to import.
I considered importing as Logins or as Notes, to be...
Hi TinaSoprano
I wish this were more straightforward for you.
SplashID has made it rather difficult for users wishing to leave their platform. They've changed their export format a few times, eliminated the option to export in an unencrypted format (which apparently they have restored), their export was not traditionally a CSV file, but CSV-like with their own encoding that isn't readily usable by any spreadsheet program, their data encoding has had bugs making it lossy and problematic, and worst of all, when your subscription expires, you can't even export your own data. That's shameful.
I can't speak to the limitations of 1Password.com's importer, but will only guess that the 1Password folks decided to focus on the handling the bulk of the export data which would be Logins, Secure Notes and Credit Cards from CSV files. As you're aware, SplashID stock types can be customized, and user-defined types can be created. Mapping the stock types of various password manager's records into 1Password is challenging enough; customized types makes it even more difficult. Combined, this makes it a non-trivial task to create an import UI and tool that is effective, does not exhaust a user's patience, is error resilient in practice, and is actually meaningful to a user at the time of import (and a large list of types and fields and mappings to select would not be).
I have only limited SplashID CSV export data. You may be able to use the csv converter in the converter suite, but you'll need to isolate each of your record types into individual CSV files (e.g. one type per CSV file). I realize this is non-trivial.
I'd also be happy to help create a customized version of that converter for the types that you'd like handled specially. The converter is easily modified to accommodate this; you'd just have to help me understand what you need. This undertaking is really only beneficial if you have a fair number of records of a certain type. For only a few records, it is quicker to just copy / paste the data into new 1Password entries.
