Does anyone know whether all records in mSecure - the basic, not the premium or paid vesion - may be exported to a .csv file or directly to another app?  I need to get the h*ll out of Dodge. No faith in mSecure any longer.

There is NO option, because they wanted to lock in users. Only option is printing to pdf, but by doing so you lose all stored attachements :-(

@Nick The desktop app allows you ti export all or selected items from you database to a CSV file.

I've been trying to make sense of the csv file - it obviously doesn't have attachments and the format is quite complex - but for cases where you just have a login with a user id and password it should be helpful in a migration

Since I wanted to switch to another provider after the database theft was announced, I tried to export the data from mSecure using the only option available, which is generating a CSV file.

Unfortunately, this csv export file is unusable!!

1. When the file is opened in MS Excel, no decent table is visible, but the information is listed one after another in the same row, separated by a vertical line.

2. This has the consequence that while a table can be created with Excel tutoring, the entries—because not all records have the same number of entries—are not neatly organized by topic (name, website, password, etc.) but are randomly mixed up depending on how many entries there are per record (row). --> So it is unusable for importing into another app.

1Password offers the direct import function for various other providers, but mSecure unfortunately does not have it. This is because mSecure does not offer a usable export function.

--> Definitely need to improve here with mSeven.

The way to do it in Excel is to go into the Data Tab, in the drop down next to Get Data choose Legacy.

Then select your csv file and click Get Data.

You then get a Text Import wizard:

Step 1 choose delimited and start import at row 2

Step 2 make sure both comma and other are selected and next to Other type the | symbol (this is important)

Now Import - its not ideal and the success depends how complicated your mSecure password settings were (for example multi line notes are messed up)

If you had mostly simple logins then the various fields will be separated into columns 

Unfortunately, it doesn't work adequately, at least not in the way that it can be used as an export file, for example, for the Apple Password app.

Unfortunately, it doesn't work adequately, at least not in the way that it can be used as an export file, for example, for the Apple Password app.

OK I just took a look at the Apple Passwords format - it seems to be: Title,URL,Username,Password

If you have the Excel spreadsheet with the mSecure csv imported as explained above your simple Login records will have:

Title in column A

URL in column H

Username in column K

Password in column N

Just delete everything else

As I said above its straightforward for simple logins and not much work - other record types and more complex record formats might take longer

I moved a while ago (but unfortunately didn't completely remove mSecure from the cloud and have some old (and some still active) passwords in mSecure cloud), so bad me.. I've taken steps to make sure anything important has been changed.

But I went through this transfer out years ago.  It's a nightmare.  What I did, is export as a CSV, open in excel.  Then because msecure (as well as other pw managers) allow you to add custom fields, it breaks any import to any other app directly.

I ended up opening the csv file in excel, and removing the custom fields and/or moving things around to match bitwarden's import enough to get the majority of my records into bitwarden without having to type them in.

Because msecure has many more record types, it was still not a direct import. I took my PASSWORDS and moved them over.  other categories that didn't line up I had to move manually.

I don't necessarily blame mSecure for allowing you to customize your experience for your needs. it's just very easy to have one record that has a super unique set of add-on fields that isn't going to match anything else.

I'm sure if they wanted, there would be a way to make it 'better', but regardless that was what I did. 

For me the CSV export with the desktop app works fine.  But Bitwarden wasn't able to import it.  Just gave an error.  I had to have ChatGPT write conversion scripts to Bitwarden CSV format based on my prompts and example entries from the mSecure CSV.  Each record type (login, computer account, combination) has different fields, so I ended up separating each and having it write separate conversions for each instead of trying to do all at once.   I never used mSecure cloud and only used Dropbox for syncing, so most likely they don't have my vault, so no giant rush.  Not to mention all my critical email and financial accounts are already two factor, so my passwords are not critically useful to begin with.

Great use for AI,  when I switched I certainly wasn't as comfortable with AI as I am today.  Ya, I was not in a hard panic, I use hardware keys for every online account that allows it, TOTP, or any allowable form of 2FA.   Still not a terrible idea to change passwords every now and then :).  Also not all sites support additional security.

I haven't gotten any emails indicating anyone is trying to get into any of my accounts which is nice 

I think with this kind of breach as we assume is that they just have the vaults and don't have the magic QR code OR account password, it would be a slow burn and not immediate compromises.  It might be weeks/months/years before someone cracked open your vault, but they aren't necessarily in a hurry either.  Passwords aren't even my concern these days, half the financial and other critical websites let you basically bypass the the password with a reset to email or text.