Converting from Avast Password Manager [mrc-converter-suite] [Solved]

gidsiner

Hello,
I'm getting an error when trying to convert my Avast passwords (program version 23.4.6062 (build 23.4.8118.783)) into 1Password. I'm using Windows 11. I followed the directions in the mc converter readme.html file. When I run:
perl convert.pl avastpasswords -v C:\Tools\avast.json

I get the following errors:
Uncaught exception from user code:
Error parsing time at C:/Strawberry/perl/lib/Time/Piece.pm line 598.
Time::Piece::strptime("Time::Piece", "2027-04--1", "%Y-%m-%d") called at C:/Tools/mrc-converter-suite/./Converters/Avastpasswords.pm line 211
Converters::Avastpasswords::parse_date_string(HASH(0x44549a0)) called at C:/Tools/mrc-converter-suite/./Converters/Avastpasswords.pm line 219
Converters::Avastpasswords::date2monthYear(HASH(0x44549a0)) called at C:/Tools/mrc-converter-suite/./Converters/Avastpasswords.pm line 85
Converters::Avastpasswords::ANON(HASH(0x44549a0), "expiry") called at C:/Tools/mrc-converter-suite/./MCS/Core.pm line 151
MCS::Core::normalize_records(MCS::Core=HASH(0x394f3c0), MCS::Generators::PUX=HASH(0x429bd58), "creditcard", ARRAY(0x394e9a0), HASH(0x394e988)) called at C:/Tools/mrc-converter-suite/./Converters/Avastpasswords.pm line 124
Converters::Avastpasswords::do_common(Converters::Avastpasswords=HASH(0x26b5438), HASH(0x39460a8), ARRAY(0x394e9a0), HASH(0x394e988), undef, "creditcard") called at C:/Tools/mrc-converter-suite/./Converters/Avastpasswords.pm line 178
Converters::Avastpasswords::process_json(Converters::Avastpasswords=HASH(0x26b5438), SCALAR(0x39460c0), HASH(0x39460a8), undef) called at C:/Tools/mrc-converter-suite/./Converters/Avastpasswords.pm line 111
Converters::Avastpasswords::import(Converters::Avastpasswords=HASH(0x26b5438), "C:\Tools\avast.json", undef) called at convert.pl line 200

Any ideas on what may be wrong? Thanks!

• Gideon

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MrC

@gidsiner ,

Thanks for the report. I see the error:

Time::Piece::strptime("Time::Piece", "2027-04--1", "%Y-%m-%d") called at C:/Tools/mrc-converter-suite/./Converters/Avastpasswords.pm line 211

The data being passed is quite unexpected. Avast dates in the Credit Card entries in the export look like:

      "expirationDate" : {
        "day" : 1,
        "month" : 12,
        "year" : 2023
      },

The converter just reassembles those day, month, year components into a Y-m-d format. It seems your day value is "-1". Can you find that entry in your JSON?

gidsiner

I'm sure I can. I can also just delete the credit cards from avast and then export there's only like 3 of them. Would that resolve the issue?

Also, I just found a workaround like 5 minutes ago. For anyone else having issues. in Avast you can export to Chrome, so I just exported\imported to Chrome, then after it was done importing I exported from chrome and used that file to import into 1password. Probably worked since the avast chrome export strips the CC's out.

MrC

@gidsiner

If you would not mind confirming my suspicion, I can update the converter to handle that error condition. It's a simple fix, but don't want to update the code w/out confirmation that I've analyzed the data correctly.

gidsiner

sure no worries, you were absolutely correct. I did find the day = -1 in the json and changed it to day = 1. There were actually multiple CC entries with that in there. I ran the converter again and it worked with no errors this time. Not sure why Avast was giving a -1 as the day, but that's a them issue I supposed :)

MrC

Ok, great, thanks @gidsiner .

Perhaps the -1 is supposed to mean that no day component was present. Since the conversion is going into a 1Password Month/Year field, I'll update the converter to assume that -1 means no Day, perform the conversion, and there is will be no harm.

gidsiner

Sounds like a plan. You are awesome! Hopefully anyone else coming from avast won't have that same issue.

MrC

@gidsiner

I've posted the update to resolve the issue. Thanks again for your report, and thank you for your kind words.

Enjoy 1Password!