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New ~/Library/Keychains subfolder?

I've been using OS X 10.7 Lion until today, and I've just bought an SSD for my Macbook (to upgrade from a harddrive) and installed OS X 10.9 Mavericks on it.


So far Mavericks seems great, and there are some sweet little improvements. I've put my old hard-drive in an external USB enclosure, and I'm copying my preferences files over.


During the course of this, it seems like the organistion structure of ~/Library/Keychains has changed.


On my old 10.7 system I had the files Microsoft_Intermediate_Certificates, login.keychain, metadata.keychain


On my new 10.9 system I have only the file login.keychain and then a separate subfolder called 833385D1-2681-5706-B6E9-8C1BDCA4928E


In the subfolder are: accountStatus.plist, keychain-2.db, keychain-2.db-shm. keychain-2.db-wal, user.kb

I assume that I can copy over my old login.keychain and all my passwords will transfer, but what is the subfolder with the funny name for?


I can't think of anything I've used (in the last couple of hours of setting up preferences on this new computer) which could have created it. I'm almost tempted to delete the **** thing, and see what breaks. 😉

MacBook, OS X Mavericks (10.9.1)

Posted on Jan 10, 2014 8:34 PM

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Jan 10, 2014 9:28 PM in response to Strolls

Hi Strolls,


Don't trash anything in Mavericks Key Chain.


The separate subfolder called 833385D1-2681-5706-B6E9-8C1BDCA4928E


Is a unique number that belongs to your computer ... this is new in Mavericks.


More than this I can't tell you.


Wait until some one response to you with more experiance's in using Key Chain in Mavericks.


Dimaxum

New ~/Library/Keychains subfolder?

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