Keychain unable to import or add to keychain list (10.4.5 for Intel)

Has anyone else had the issue of not being able to import or add a keychain to the list of keychains with 10.4.5 (Intel) -- Keychain version 3.3.1? The keychains do not have any problems on verification.

The only way Keychain will see a keychain (other than System and X509Anchors) is if it's named login.keychain. Even using Keychain version 3.3.1 to reset the login.keychain, one cannot then import or add to the list the renamed keychain.

MBPro 15/1.83/1GB, PBG4 12/1.33, Mac OS X (10.4.5), Airport Express, iPod mini, iPod nano

Posted on Feb 28, 2006 8:03 PM

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Mar 6, 2006 9:40 AM in response to escK

escK,

This will also work by dragging the keychain named login.keychain into your ~/Library/Keychains folder. Then logout and then log back in.

For me, this still doesn't solve the issue of not being able to import items from a backed up keychain not named login.keychain or to add keychains with other names to the list of available keychains. Simply renaming this other keychain to login.keychain and copying it to my Keychains folder would cause me to lose the contents of my current login keychain.

Mar 6, 2006 11:23 AM in response to Jim R

Hello Jim R

My problem here is that I've just backed up that folder ~/Library/Keychains from my previous mac, and I just have a file with my user name, but without extension, as it is a panther keychain.

That's why I was looking also a way to import those files in my keychain, as I was able to do that in panther.

I hope we both find the solution we are looking for

🙂

Mar 6, 2006 12:29 PM in response to MtnViewMark

I can confirm that this works. I put my 3 "extra" keychains on my desktop. I then started keychain access and created the 3 keychains. You must be sure to name the exactly the same. In my example I had "Work" "Personal" and "Bills". It appears that keychain names ARE case sensitive. After I was done adding the 3 keychains, I closed keychain access, then I moved the 3 keychain files from my desktop over into ~/Library/Keychains folder. I opened up keychain access again, and voila, everything reappeared.

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