Can't delete old passwords in Keychain Access

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Can't delete old passwords in Keychain Access

I have used various username and passwords to log in to a particular website (makemusic.com) for many years. I have entries in the keychain for web form passwords going back to 2006. I just reset my password at makemusic.com and it generated another keychain item. I would like to delete the older ones so I don't get confused the next time I want to login. I can select the items in question, but when I right-click delete or use the edit menu delete it does nothing. The item remains in the keychain. How do I go about getting rid of these?

Mac mini 2018 or later

Posted on Sep 13, 2022 12:04 PM

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mathom Author

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Sep 13, 2022 1:35 PM in response to mathom

I actually found a solution just now. If you search on the website name in Keychain Access it will show all the items it has in whatever keychains you have. It will only let you delete those items that are in the keychain you currently have selected in the sidebar. If you have any items selected that reside in a different keychain, the delete command will do nothing. By selecting the login keychain in the sidebar and deleting the login items by themselves and then doing the same in the iCloud Keychain, I was able to get all the items deleted from both keychains.

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Mal-S

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Sep 13, 2022 12:30 PM in response to mathom

System Preferences > Passwords click on the password you want to delete and Click the minus sign (-)

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Can't delete old passwords in Keychain Access

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