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Keychain First Aid appears to be missing after 10.11.2 update!

I've been having some Keychain issues since the 10.11.2 update and decided I'd try Keychain First Aid but it appears to be missing from the menu. Anyone else seeing this?

Posted on Dec 8, 2015 8:15 PM

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Mar 13, 2016 7:03 PM in response to Mkalman

Mkalman wrote:


First, run Disk utility on the MacHD. Click First Aid. Then, In Finder click on Go. Press the alt-option button, and Libraries will appear on the dropdown menu. Open Libraries and move the Keychains folder to the desktop. Then restart the computer. You may have to re-enter your Apple ID password or others (in my case, my Google password). It took me several restarts for this to work. Once it works, you can trash the Keychains folder you moved to the desktop.


The above steps do not work for me. Basically, Apple instructed you to rebuild your entire keychain folder, which means you will be asked multiple times in multiple places to enter your login info again. You're rebuilding Keychain from scratch. I did that but I still don't see the First Aid command inside the "KeyChain Access" menu (just below "Preferences...") at all. That remains true regardless of which keychain I selected in the left "Keychains" sidebar.

May 15, 2016 12:28 PM in response to Mkalman

Apple will tell you it was removed by 10.11.2 update.


Keychain Access

Available for: OS X El Capitan v10.11 and v10.11.1

Impact: A malicious application may be able to masquerade as the Keychain Server.

Description: An issue existed in how Keychain Access interacted with Keychain Agent. This issue was resolved by removing legacy functionality.

CVE-ID

CVE-2015-7045 : Luyi Xing and XiaoFeng Wang of Indiana University Bloomington, Xiaolong Bai of Indiana University Bloomington and Tsinghua University, Tongxin Li of Peking University, Kai Chen of Indiana University Bloomington and Institute of Information Engineering, Xiaojing Liao of Georgia Institute of Technology, Shi-Min Hu of Tsinghua University, and Xinhui Han of Peking University

May 26, 2016 10:35 AM in response to Mkalman

I think I found an easier fix. I ended up going to Finder/Go/(Hold down OPTION)/Library/Keychains. I deleted the contents of the folder. Then I entered Time Machine and restored the contents of the folder from an earlier time. Afterwards, I went to System Preferences/Internet Accounts and manually input my passwords for my e-mail accounts-- not in the pop-up requesting the password but in the actual password field for the accounts. That fixed everything.

Keychain First Aid appears to be missing after 10.11.2 update!

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