cannot eject usb stick in os x containing a private keychain containing only user created secure notes
cannot eject usb stick in os x containing a private keychain containing only user created secure notes, because os x claims lots of other apps are using the said private keychain ?
and would love a resolution to this problem as its beginning to wind me up every day, so let me explain my issue:
I have a usb stick I connect to my computers, on this usb stick I have a personal keychain for passwords in secure note items only, starting under snow leopard when I try to eject said usb stick containing my secure note item private keychain, it refuses to claiming my usb stick by x open application which by the looks of it seems only to be those apps with net access ? they are claimed claim to be using the private keychain on my usb stick and refuse to allow me to eject the usb stick.
I have verified which apps with lsof grep, but sadly, it will not go into details as to which keychain secure note item they are claiming use of, it just says they claiming use of that whole keychain on the USB key. Now if I quit all the programs until im running just the finder, I can always eject the USB stick containing the private keychain. But obviously this is a total pain everytime i may need to plug and and unplug this USB stick to have to quit all open applications ?
The thing that is ultra confusing is that the keychain in question on the USB stick only contains secure note items for my private use storing logins and passwords and things, and none of the secure notes can have been setup by the apps themselves, as apps in my understanding would not create secure notes in my private keychain ? but somehow theyre still claiming rights over my private keychain ? I have also tried deleting the keychain from the list and removing references only and quitting keychain. the other apps in question Mail / Google / NetAuthAgent (was doing some screen sharing at the time i tested it) all still think they have dibs rights over my private keychain of secure notes, even though they should be having nothing to do with it ? its one thing for them to store some stuff in the login keychain, but dibs over my private keychain should not be included in that access ?
I think this must be some kind of bug in keychain in snow leopard and later or something because I didnt suffer this in leopard ? its ridiculous for an app to be claiming rights over a keychain theyve never used ? I think apple have simplified this such that all apps claim some kind of right over all keychains that keychain acess knows off regardless of whether they have used that keychain at all, but if that were the case you would have thought removing keychain access's knowledge of my private keychain would resolve the issue but apparently not ?
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MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.6.8)