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firthmj
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2 months ago
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Is MrC Converter Suite still available?

Hi,

I see some references to this suite to assist with migrating to 1Password when searching for guidance on migrating from Keeper.

Unfortunately, all the links I find are from the old support community, so just redirect to the front page now.

Trying to search for it within the new community hasn't had much success either - it just brings up hundreds of posts from threads about old issues with the converter, but no link to the converter itself.

Is it still available on here, and does someone have a link to it that works in the new community discussions?

Is it still valuable to use this for importing from Keeper, or would just importing a CSV likely work as well? (the instructions suggest a manual confirmation of the type of every record will be needed, which sounds time consuming)

I will be aiming to migrate using a Linux laptop, if that makes a difference (as it seems there is no way to migrate using an iPad)

Thanks

Michael

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  • MrC's avatar
    MrC
    2 months ago

    Hi Folks,

    Sorry for the delay in responding; I'm just catching up from being out of town for the past two weeks, and getting used to the new forum.

    The suite is still available in the same Dropbox location:

    https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/b65rvwp16c7d9tjs13gt2/AKBtHtOJ7tQz-buum6Wl24Q?rlkey=c9jjjq2e02bti7xuz81k49cwx&dl=0

    Before the forum conversion, I copied the content of the main thread.  Now I need to decide how I want to replace the info that was contained on that page.

    I'm here if you have any questions.

    mpeee, firthmj 

  • MrC's avatar
    MrC
    Super Contributor
    2 months ago

    dszp 

    You're welcome.

    There are a couple of reasons why I've avoided distributing via GitHub.  I've mentioned these on the forum here, but these are now lost due to the migration to this new platform.  Here are a few:

    • GitHub's landing page is not well suited to non-technical users, the primary audience of the converter suite.  I needed a simple landing page (admittedly, over time, Dropbox's UI became rather bloated and obtuse).
    • My process for building the documentation from the source code and the final archive isn't well-suited to GitHub, and for me would be less efficient and offers little value.
    • Over the years I've provided many custom converters for users, and being able to provide these easily to non-technical users has been extremely effective and efficient.
    • For user security and confidence, I didn't want random forks and copies of the code around. I've had some repositories taken down from GitHub.

     

    That said, more recently, I have been thinking about this, but I've been too busy this past year to make any headway.  Perhaps 2025 will see some progress.

    • dszp's avatar
      dszp
      Occasional Contributor
      2 months ago

      Thanks, that makes sense! I ended up uploading it to a private repository for my team to reference, but Dropbox just seemed unusual for software/script distribution, I appreciate the thoughts. I would argue that documentation is flexible in GitHub and the display of README.md by default along with the ability to build documentation into GitHub Pages (along with all the custom power available via GitHub Actions--which could build the docs from source) beyond that does lend itself to GitHub well but would definitely involve changes.

      But I do also get the reasons for not using it, though the change tracking does seem to be a substantial benefit in terms of both seeing what's changed and not having to track downloaded versions over time manually, since it would be simple for advanced users to clone and update the repository to stay up to date--with releases being downloadable by less technical users still who don't understand Git. Regardless, I appreciate the details and time restraints, thanks again! It's a very useful tool regardless of distribution for sure and I very much appreciate the consistent effort over so long!

      • MrC's avatar
        MrC
        Super Contributor
        2 months ago

        dszp 

        My documentation build requires a manual step via some macOS licensed software I own.  There are special features I use from it to construct the HTML from MD with other meta-markup.  It will take a fair amount of time and focus to convert this over to use command line MD conversion tools.

        GitHub would definitely help others who use Git and want to track version changes, like yourself.  I get this.

        My usage of Dropbox is simply that it's ubiquity predated GitHub.

    • GreasyWeasel's avatar
      GreasyWeasel
      New Contributor
      2 months ago

      Hi, firstly I want to say thank you for all the work you have put into this converter.

      I am however having an issue with the converter from mSecure 6 to 1Password 8. I can see the passwords in the exported csv file but it appears most of the passwords are missing after I have done the conversion and imported them (I'm using the helper on mac). Most other fields appear to be correct, username, website, notes are all there, just the passwords are missing for most of the logins. I have successfully used it before to move from an earlier version of mSecure, any ideas? 

      • MrC's avatar
        MrC
        Super Contributor
        2 months ago

        Hi GreasyWeasel 

        You're welcome.

        I assume the issue is with the Login category.  The last columns of a login record will be the URL, username and password.  These are generally in the form of three vertical bar (aka pipe) separated values, like this:

        Website|2|http://www.exmple.com,Username|7|joe@example.com,Password|8|supersecretsauce

        The first thing in the tuple is the label, the second is an mSecure field type ID, and the third is the value.  Do you see all three of these?  Perhaps you can share a sanitized version of one Login record.  The converter is expecting the label to be exactly "Password".

        You can enable debug mode by adding the -d option, and that will reveal how fields are matched:

        Finally, is your export from and conversion on macOS or Windows?   The exports have slightly different formats.

  • mpeee's avatar
    mpeee
    New Contributor
    2 months ago

    Hi,

    it's the same for me. I want to get my Enpass Data to 1password, best would be with foto and pdf attachments.

    Is there any chance to get the latest Version?

    mpeee

    • MrC's avatar
      MrC
      Super Contributor
      2 months ago

      Hi Folks,

      Sorry for the delay in responding; I'm just catching up from being out of town for the past two weeks, and getting used to the new forum.

      The suite is still available in the same Dropbox location:

      https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/b65rvwp16c7d9tjs13gt2/AKBtHtOJ7tQz-buum6Wl24Q?rlkey=c9jjjq2e02bti7xuz81k49cwx&dl=0

      Before the forum conversion, I copied the content of the main thread.  Now I need to decide how I want to replace the info that was contained on that page.

      I'm here if you have any questions.

      mpeee, firthmj 

      • mpeee's avatar
        mpeee
        New Contributor
        2 months ago

        Thank you MrC  very much, the conversion is done. Now i have to manually clean and merge the imports. They came from different sources. It was huge help to be able to use the enpass .json export.