Moving from 1Password
to Steganos
Password Manager

Steganos Password Manager reads 1Password exports directly, so there's nothing to retype: titles, addresses, user names, passwords, notes and tags all come over in one pass. Plan on about five to ten minutes for the whole move.

What you need is access to your 1Password account and Steganos Password Manager on your Windows PC. If you don't have it yet: try it free for 30 days with no subscription – the import works exactly the same in the trial version.

Step 1: Export from 1Password as CSV

The export runs in the 1Password application for Windows or Mac, not in the browser extension. There you pick the vault you want to take with you and export it in CSV format. 1Password asks for your master password to confirm.

Two notes on this:

• The export file is unencrypted plain text. Anyone who opens it sees every password. So it has no business in a cloud folder or an email attachment – and it must not be left lying around after the import.
• Export one vault at a time. If you have several vaults you'll get several files and import them one by one. That's the simplest way to keep them apart.

Password Manager recognizes the format from the first line of the file. In the current 1Password versions it looks like this:

Title,Url,Username,Password,OTPAuth,Favorite,Archived,Tags,Notes

Exports from older versions with the header row title,notes,username,password,url are read as well – but then only these five fields come over.

Step 2: Read the export into Password Manager

1. Open Steganos Password Manager and unlock the keychain the entries are meant for. If you don't have one yet, create it first.
2. In the File menu open Import and choose 1Password Database... – even if your export file ends in .csv. That's just what the entry is called; it reads exactly these CSV files.
3. Select the file. Password Manager reports "Import successful" and the entries show up in the list.

What gets carried over

From a current 1Password export the import maps as follows:

• Title becomes the title of the entry
• Username and Password become the user name and the password
• Url becomes the website
• Notes becomes the note – multi-line notes keep their line breaks
• Tags come over as tags, OTPAuth lands in the field for one-time passwords
• Favorite carries the favorite marker over

Two things are worth knowing beforehand. First: the Archived column isn't evaluated – archived entries arrive as ordinary entries. If you'd rather not bring your archive along, it's better to clear it out before the export. Second: what 1Password doesn't export can't arrive either – documents and file attachments have to be moved by hand.

Afterward: securely delete the export file

All of your passwords sit in that CSV file in plain text. Dragging it to the Recycle Bin isn't enough: the data stays on the hard drive and can be recovered with simple tools. The background is in our guide "Why the Recycle Bin is not enough to securely delete your data".

To delete it, use a tool that overwrites the file. Steganos Shredder does that and is included in Steganos Privacy Suite and in Steganos Data Safe. Remember copies in your Downloads folder and in any cloud folder that is syncing.

If the import doesn't go through

The message "The data is not in the correct format." means the header row doesn't match. Open the file in Notepad – not in Excel, which changes the separator when saving – and compare the first line with the two versions printed above. If you accidentally exported 1Password's own .1pux format: the import can't read that, so export again as CSV.

And if you're actually coming from another program: there are separate entries for LastPass and KeePass in the same menu, plus ones for Chrome, Edge and Firefox.