I have tried to migrate my keychains to may new mac.I have followed the instructions and I have copied login.keychain. Then I add it to keychain on my new mac but passwords did not showed up. It did not transfer any password.
MacBook Pro
Unfortunately migration assistant can't help me, I have formatted my old mac and gave it to new owner. But just in case I have copied to my keychain folder to my usb. Is there any way to add them to my new mac?
I have followed the instructions and I have copied login.keychain.
What instructions? Where did you copy it? Did you replace the existing login keychain? Is the keychain completely empty?
Keychain Access: Copy keychains to another Mac
I have followed the instructions above.
Those are the right instructions. Is the keychain empty?
No it is not. I had more than 100 items on local items chain and around 50 items on system chain. when I add previous keychain to my new mac, local items and system is still empty but login keychain is same as old one.
You only migrated one keychain. The others are separate. If you were using iCloud Keychain before, you should activate it now. The System keychain is lost if you didn't save it.
I have not used iCloud before and just in case I save all keychain file. It has only login.keychain and keychain-2.db, keychain-2.db-shm, keychain-2.db-wal and user.kb. The important keychain for me is local items one.
It's not documented, but as far as I know, the "Local Items" keychain can't be migrated directly. It's just a cache of the iCloud keychain and maybe some temporary items. That's all I can tell you.
I see, thank you for your help.
Key Chain migration problem
