Restore old keychain after resetting keychain to default

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Restore old keychain after resetting keychain to default

Restore old keychain after resetting keychain to default.

I "reset my default keychain" within keychain access after being told that this was the new version of "first aid" on the OS X El Capitan update.

It said a new keychain would be made as default and my old on moved aside (but not deleted)

I want to restore my old keychain that has been moved aside but can't seem to find any information on how to do this.

Many thanks

Elliot

MacBook Pro with Retina display, iOS 9.2.1

Posted on Feb 20, 2016 2:35 AM

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Answer 1

chroot

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Feb 20, 2016 4:16 AM in response to Elliotn24

The old keychain should be located in ~/Library/Keychains. Rename the old keychain back to login.keychain. If you do not know the password for the old login keychain then you won't be able to unlock it. If the old login keychain's password is different from the user account password, you'll want to change the password to match.

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Answer 2

Nov 15, 2016 1:00 AM in response to chroot

hi

Thanks for the advice! I'm trying to do the same thing but my files look like this:

Should I rename those login.keychain-db files as it seems that a renamed file was created based on that after I reset the keychain?

Thanks in advance for any insight on this.

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Answer 3

Jul 31, 2016 7:24 AM in response to chroot

Thanks. The only thing that I had to do was delete the 'login.keychain' file first before renaming

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