cleanup keychain

how do I cleanup MacBook keychain so I can export the data?

MacBook Pro 13", macOS 10.14

Posted on Oct 28, 2019 12:44 PM

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Brallen01

Level 2

305 points

Oct 28, 2019 1:19 PM in response to allanfromnm

There’s two areas you can go to clean up data within keychain:

go to preferences within Safari and delete any old / unused password - this will delete them from the iCloud Keychain if you have this
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