Keychain Access - Secure Notes

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Keychain Access - Secure Notes

I’m happy with the new Sequoia Passwords app (especially the Authenticator Codes grouping), but am let down by the proposed deprecation of Keychain Access. Specifically, I have about 200 Secure Notes in my Keychain Access (my whole life - Banking, Serial Numbers, etc) and am happy to migrate them to Apple’s Notes, where each Note can be password-protected and Locked.

Why can Apple not have an Export function for the Secure Note items in my Keychain so that I do not have to manually open each one then Copy and Paste the text to a new Note?

Earlier Mac models

Posted on Nov 13, 2024 12:55 AM

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Answer 1

PRP_53

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Nov 13, 2024 1:11 AM in response to UKMac1

Reading this article from a well respected / experienced contributor @MrHoffman

I do not see mentioned, the ability to Export a Secure Note, per se

Though, in the lower portion of that same article, there is an alternative method presented

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UKMac1 Author

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Nov 13, 2024 1:38 AM in response to PRP_53

Thank you very much for replying. However, your link to Mr Hoffman’s article takes me to his profile and not to his article!

His article may well be useful and it would be very kind if you could post that?

Thank you.

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UKMac1 Author

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Nov 13, 2024 2:25 AM in response to PRP_53

Thank you very much for supplying the link (I had browsed through all of Mr Hoffman’s posts and didn’t come across that one). As you stated originally, he didn’t provide any help beyond what I have ended up doing already (Copy/Pasting the text contents to Apple Notes).

Should it be of interest/help to anyone stumbling across this present thread, I did - last week - come across an App-let, which claimed to do exactly what I wanted. https://github.com/wincent/secure-notes-exporter.

However, being a bear of very little brane, it was all far too complicated for me to pursue and would involve installing XCode, Homebrew and compiling the app-let and being conversant with a load of Terminal stuff. Life is too short!

But I do thank you for your interest and replies and wish you the best.

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