On entering my Keychain password to access a Secure Note in Keychain Access, the Secure Note window appears but vanishes less than a second later. Has anyone seen this behavior? Does anyone know a cure? Thanks.
For what it's worth, I can still access the information on the note with the right-click "Copy Secure Note to Clipboard" feature.
Mac Pro, macOS Sierra (10.12.6)
Followed the steps in the article Keychain for Mac: Store confidential information securely using Keychain Access
Now right click on keychain access in the dock and quit it , again open keychain access via spotlight , the secured note is visible .
Does the same thing happen in the Safe Mode?
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If it works in the Safe Mode, try running this program when booted normally and then copy and paste the output in a reply. The program was created by Etresoft, a frequent contributor. Please use copy and paste as screen shots can be hard to read. On the screen with Options, please open Options and check the bottom 2 boxes before running. Click “Share Report” button in the toolbar, select “Copy to Clipboard” and then paste into a reply. This will show what is running on your computer. No personal information is shown.
If you double click on previously created secure note in keychain access , it will prompt to enter admin name and password two times , you have to click on allow and save the changes .
Thanks very much for the response. I see that I made myself perfectly unclear: I was referring to existing Secure Notes, rather than creating new ones.
I did, I'm fact, try it in Safe Mode as well as normal user mode, with the same result.
I also suspected that a system admin might have been screen sharing with me at the time via Apple Remote Desktop, but I could easily verify that that was not the case.
After a day away from the system, I find that the weird behavior is no longer occurring. Until I see it recur, and in the absence of a similar experience elsewhere, I have to regard it as a Twonkie (not the more recent junk food, but the 1953 movie of the same name that explained that "A Twonkie is something that you don't know what it is").
Thanks again.
Thanks for your reply. As I noted, I was still able to Copy to Clipboard, so my access to the information in the Secure Notes was not entirely lost, just less convenient. As noted above in my reply to tygb, I had the same experience in Safe Mode. Now, two days later, the weird behavior is gone.
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