Upgraded to Lion, now keychain isn't behaving the same.

Idlewile

See Bruce Sewart'sinstructions here and consider my earlier comment about Safari settings. You did not say but I am guessing that the passwords you are losing are saved passwords in Safari. I noticed that I never lost passwords that were application specific which lead me to Safari settings.

Since taking the steps as outlined above I have not had any more problems.

Good luck

Let me make sure ya understand. I lost my passwords when I reset Safari and cleared the cache/history. My screencap above is what my permanent setting are when resetting Safari.

In other words if you are mysteriously loosing all your Safari passwords, it is possible you are resetting Safari and those two unchecked boxes in my screencap are checked on your machine. For some reason it deletes the passwords in keychain. When I made the changes shown in my original post I can clear my cache/history resetting Safari and not lose my passwords.

Hope this helps and I made myself a bit clearer. Good luck

Yes, Safari (and all other Apple software that I am aware of e.g. Mail) stores passwords in the Keychain. Safari just looks them up in the keychain, they are not stored in the Safari folders with the other stuff like history or caches.

Passwords need to be in a secure spot so even if another user has access to your file space, they would need to have your system password to unlock your keychain to get to any passwords.

I understand all that Bruce. 🙂 I was responding to Idlewile. I discovered that if you reset Safari and the entries

"Remove saved names and Passwords"

and

"Remove autofill forms"

are checked then the "Safari passwords' are deleted from the Keychain. As you prolly know, you "Reset" Safari to clear web history and web site data etc. My habit is to Reset Safari and Clear the cache, just my personal preference.

Here are the steps I took to change the settings:

With Safari open

• Click Safari
• Click "Reset Safari"
• A window will open asking to confirm resetting Safari
• Uncheck the two boxes I have mentioned before.

If those two boes ARE CHECKED then Safari removes saved names and passowrds form the Keychain. That was my main point.

THAT solved my problem of the missing passwords.

Thanx and have a great weekend.

Message was edited by: Squawkbox

Sqawkbox,

Thanks for your help. I'm good now. The only problem I have left is that my mail on my laptop will not sync with my iPhone or iPad. When I delete anything on the two it does not show up on my laptop. Also it shows that I have 13 emails and I checked everywhere and can't find them...I even went back a year and nothing.What can I do?

Yikes I really do not know. I am afraid this means another thread search for you. If you wish you can contact me at squawkbox (at) squawkboxnoise (dot) com and we can puzzle this out together.

ChicagoDUILawyer - If your original post for this discussion is solved can you mark it so, and with whose solution worked for you?

This really helps the community sort out what has worked.

Other than just replying to you how am I suppose to let you know the discussion is solved?