Trying to repair my keychain, but can't find the option to do that. I'm in keychain access, but where is it?

The instructions in the 2014 tutorial for repairing the keychain don't work for Sierra. They break at the third step:

1. Open Keychain Access (located in Applications/Utilities)

2. Go to the "Keychain Access" menu and select "Preferences"

3. Click the "First Aid" tab

There is no "First Aid" tab in "Keychain Access" / "Preferences". There is just General and Certificates. In the General tab the only selections available are "Show keychain status in menu bar." and "Search directory services for certificates." In the lower left corner there is a button to reset the Default Keychain, which wipes everything out and creates a new "login" keychain. Is it no longer possible to try a repair before wiping everything out?

Hi First aid doesn't exist any more in Sierra keychain Version 9.0 (55208.1.1) is that correct.. Only answer to repair keychain errors is to set aside the existing (reset keychain option in preference) delete it and restart ? Causing chaos on all keychain devices perhaps ?

My macbook has been exhibiting this incessant problem for months now! Sad that after El Capitan the repair option was removed, I've tried everything else and nothing has worked 😠

I have tried:

- deleting & re-creating login & iCloud keychains, copied items from old one & deleted the old

- Resetting keychain passwords to match login account password

- Re-trying everything in this article

- pulling out hair

Between this problem and another incessant annoyance where hostname constantly changes, I'm starting to get fed up with Apple's recent OS versions.

Info on how to fix either of these problems would be greatly appreciated!

Tutorial: Resolving Keychain Issues

If you can't access your keychain, or forget your password If you can't get into your keychain file because you've forgotten your password or the keychain file appears to be corrupt, there are a couple of options.

First, if you've forgotten your password, you can use the "Keychain First Aid" utility to make the keychain password the same as the login password. This can be accomplished via the following process:

1. Open Keychain Access (located in Applications/Utilities)

2. Go to the "Keychain Access" menu and select "Preferences"

3. Click the "First Aid" tab

4. Make sure the "Synchronize login keychain password" box is checked

5. Close the Preferences window

6. Go to the "Keychain Access" menu and select "Keychain First Aid"

7. Enter your username and password

8. Click the "Repair" button

The second option is to completely delete your keychain then recreate it. This routine is useful if your keychain appears to be corrupt or otherwise inaccessible. This can be accomplished as follows:

1. Launch Keychain Access (located in Applications/Utilities)

2. Click "Show Keychains" in the lower-left corner of the window.

3. Select the problematic keychain from the left-hand pane.

4. Navigate to the "File" menu and select "Delete Keychain '(name of keychain)'"

5. Check all options for deletion and press "OK"

6. Create a new keychain by going to the "File" menu, then "New" and selecting

"New Keychain"

7. You can now make this keychain your default if you desire by selecting it, then

going to the "File" menu and selecting "Make '(name of keychain)' Default"

Login as root and perform repair In some cases, problems with keychains can only be resolved when logged in as the root user.

First, you want to enable the root user:

1. OS X Mountain Lion: Enable and disable the root user

2. OS X Lion: Enable and disable the root user

3. Mac OS X 10.6: Enabling the root user

4. Enabling and using the "root" user in Mac OS X

After enabling the root user, and logging in under this account, again open Keychain Access. First attempt repairs using Keychain First Aid, and failing that, delete then recreate the keychain as described above while logged in as root.

Persistently asked for stored passwords If you are persistently asked for passwords in various applications that you have specified should be remembered in a keychain, your "login" keychain may not be active for one reason or another.

Navigate to ~/Library/Keychains/ (this is the Library folder inside your user's home folder). Find the file named "login.keychain" and double-click it.

Failing that, select the "login" keychain within the Keychain Access application and make sure it is the default keychain by going to the "File" menu and selecting "Make 'Login' Default"

Turn off Keychain synchronization in applications having problems If specific applications are experiencing issues when accessing password-protected material, the Keychain may be to blame.

The above comes from an article published on MacFixit.com.

Thanks, but I don't think that was the problem. I don't use the keychain. It appears that amidst all the problems with the Verizon to Frontier/AOL transition months ago they just changed my password. I reset the password and rewrote it into my Apple client. That finally worked.

I found the sign on yahoo mail in keychain and deleted it. Unfortunately my mac is still asking me for my yahoo mail password.

Check System Preferences/Internet Accounts to see if the correct password is there.

The option to access first aid does not exist where indicated in OS Sierra.

It was removed in El Capitan.

I won't ask WHY Keychain First Aid was removed in El Capitan, but how do we now fix keychain problems in Sierra without it?

Kappy's 2nd option.

Yes, I too cannot find the keychain repair in the keychain access preferences.

If you are running 10.11 or 10.12, the option is no longer available.

The problem was solved by contacting Apple on live chat. Keychain Access preferences, delete password. Re-enter password and type into all dialog boxes, they vanish and Safari comes back to life.

No First Aid in Sierra, so the only option is what Kappy posted.