Moving from LastPass
to Steganos
Password Manager

If you are leaving LastPass, you don't have to retype your logins. Steganos Password Manager reads a LastPass export directly – with user names, passwords, addresses, notes and even the folders LastPass calls "groups." Plan on five to ten minutes.

You need two things: access to your LastPass vault and Steganos Password Manager on your Windows PC. If you don't have it yet, you can try it free for 30 days with no subscription – the import works exactly the same in the trial version.

Step 1: Export your LastPass vault as a CSV file

Sign in to your LastPass account and open the export – it's in the advanced account settings under "Export." LastPass asks for your master password once more and then saves a CSV file on your computer.

Two things matter at this point:

• The export file is unencrypted plain text. Anyone who can open it reads every one of your passwords. So don't put it in a cloud folder, don't send it by email, and don't leave it lying around after the import – how to get rid of it is explained further down.
• Don't open and save the file in Excel. When saving, Excel likes to write semicolons instead of commas as the separator and changes the header row – after that the import no longer recognizes the format.

The first line of the file is the header row, and that's what Password Manager uses to recognize the format. In a current LastPass export it looks like this:

url,username,password,totp,extra,name,grouping,fav

Older exports without the totp column are read as well. If something else is there, the format is wrong – in that case export again instead of repairing the file by hand.

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 LastPass CSV... – not one of the browser entries, those are for Chrome, Edge and Firefox.
3. Select the file you just exported. Password Manager reports "Import successful" and your entries show up in the list.

You can repeat the import later if you want to bring more entries over. Entries that are already there are kept, so check afterward whether anything ended up twice.

What gets carried over

The import maps the columns of the LastPass file onto the fields in Password Manager:

• name becomes the title of the entry
• username and password become the user name and the password
• url becomes the website of the entry
• extra becomes the note
• grouping – the LastPass folder – becomes the category
• fav carries the favorite marker over, totp the field for one-time passwords

What LastPass doesn't export can't come along: file attachments and the permissions of shared folders. You'll have to set up both again.

Afterward: securely delete the export file

The CSV file holds every one of your passwords in plain text. Dragging it to the Recycle Bin isn't enough – the data stays on the hard drive afterward and can be recovered with simple tools. Our guide "Why the Recycle Bin is not enough to securely delete your data" explains in detail why that is.

So delete the file with a tool that really overwrites it. Steganos Shredder does exactly that and is included in Steganos Privacy Suite and in Steganos Data Safe. Remember the copy in your Downloads folder, too, and any cloud folder that may be syncing.

If the import doesn't go through

If Password Manager reports "The data is not in the correct format.", the header row doesn't match. Open the file in Notepad (not in Excel) and compare the first line with the one printed above. The most common causes: the file was saved in a spreadsheet program in the meantime, or it isn't a LastPass export at all but one from another program – there are separate entries for 1Password and KeePass in the same menu.

If it reports instead that no entries could be found, the file is built correctly but holds no rows apart from the header. That happens when the wrong vault was selected during the export.