Disappearing keychain? Leopard you magician you!

Mine disappeared too. I have a back up but am waiting to see if there is a simple fix...

I have 2 MBPs and a Dual 2Gig G5 and you guys are scaring me 🙂
I will wait for this to die down. I understand there are already 2 updates to Leopard. You might see if they are available and install them if you have not already done so.
My Leopard is still not shipped, but reading your posts and others' is enlightening.
When I upgraded to Tiger on my G5 nothing special happened to anything. It smiled and went to work.

I don't know for sure yet that this is true, but someone mentioned elsewhere that Apple had reverted the default keychain name. In 10.3 it had been your username; in 10.4 it was changed to generic "login". Now, according to this unnamed individual's observation, it's back to username (e.g., "dave.keychain".

My login.keychain is definitely intact, but I also got keychain complaints on first boot. For the heck of it I made a copy of of login.keychain to dave.keychain. I really don't know for sure this will make a difference. I guess I'll need to make Safari or something add an entry so I can see which it gets...

David Butenhof wrote:
I don't know for sure yet that this is true, but someone mentioned elsewhere that Apple had reverted the default keychain name. In 10.3 it had been your username; in 10.4 it was changed to generic "login". Now, according to this unnamed individual's observation, it's back to username (e.g., "dave.keychain".

My login.keychain is definitely intact, but I also got keychain complaints on first boot. For the heck of it I made a copy of of login.keychain to dave.keychain. I really don't know for sure this will make a difference. I guess I'll need to make Safari or something add an entry so I can see which it gets...

I experienced the same problem, and can confirm that, for me at least, renaming the keychain fixes the problem.:-

I just duplicated my "login.keychain", renamed the copy to " username.keychain", then opened the keychain app and added my new " username.keychain". A quick logout / login and everything was back to normal...

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This is very helpful for me when I install Leopard.
But I wonder what the average Leopard upgrader who does not come here will do?
Shouldn't Apple have seen coming and changed the name during the install?

I lost all by Keychains as well with my upgrade to Leopard 😟

Using Spotlight, I couldn't find my old Keychain files or new one for that matter (using the search criteria login.keychain or (my username).keychain.

I did clone my HD to an external drive prior to installing Leopard... so I guess I will have to attach that drive and look for my old Keychains there.

So far, this has been the biggest issue I have faced with Leopard. I had been using Keychain Access to manage all my passwords, account names, etc.. both for computer related matters and non-computer related matters. I always figured it the data would be safe there... Oh well... thank goodness for backups. I just hope I can retrieve the old file and import them into the new "reverted" empty Keychain that Leopard created.

My biggest problem so far was also a keychain one. Turned out my old keychain didn't have a suffix so it wasn't properly recognized. Adding .keychain to its name in the finder solved the problem.

Yes. Keychains disappeared during upgrade. I only wish that was my only problem.

My generic login.keychain has been renamed "login_renamed1.keychain" and a new login.keychain has been created. I had to enter a few passwords which are kept in this last keychain.
I have renamed the "login_renamed1.keychain" to myusername.keychain and added it to the keychains. No problem anymore

okamisama - How exactly did you add this suffix? Where did you find this in the Finder?

My keychains are there, with all their passwords and correct information.

However, they do not seem to be working. Everything that normally would automatically use the keychain, does not, and acts as if there wasn't a keychain.

Any suggestions?

My keychain never vanished and works fine.

Your keychains, and there are generally at least two, are stored in the Keychain folder in each of the library folders, one for User and one for root.

Same problem here.

Just renamed one of the Keychains in my User's keychain folder: should I rename the other one there also, the one currently titled "Login.keychain"?

Also, I haven't done anything to the two in the System's Keychain folder. Should I alter those also?

Thanks for your help!

I to have run into the same problem. I noticed that trying to save some airport passwords, the keychain "(my username)" did not exist. I checked Keychain Access and it looks like it shows both login.keychain and (username).keychain but that login contains all of my information. Also, a thorough search of the drive revealed no trace of any (username).keychain. I'm more than a little worried.


Any news from Apple?