Keychain Note keeps coming up blank

[kerrylk1]

This has happened to me three times already and I have no idea if I am doing something to cause it. I use Keychain and have several "Notes" set up. One of the Notes I use regularly. When I update it, I click "Save Changes" and it appears to save and then close the Note. If I am just viewing it to get info, I just close it without saving. It has never shown me a blank note at any time when I am either saving or exiting. However, three times now I have gone to access my note and it has been completely blank. The other two Notes, which I do not use regularly, still contain their original contents. I have no idea how this happens. Fortunately I use Time Machine and go back and restore an old version but it's getting annoying and I want it to stop. Any one else have this problem? Any ideas or suggestions?

Thanks,

Kerry

 

[ancientscream]

Re keychain blanking secure notes

I use keychain secure notes to store large numbers of passwords and info securely , and also now and again suffer from keychain access blanking secure notes so that all information they contained is lost, this is a big problem with keychains, and also reduces my faith in keychains completely. My conclusion is that this is occuring when a keychain is left open in the background and times out and the keychain locks itself and then goes into some form of deep sleep, and when awoken the secure not appears to be blank or somehow is then blank.

To minimalise the chance of this occurring my theory of using keychains involves saving and closing them and not leaving them open unsaved or open or timing out and locking with unsaved edits in them, whilst the machine goes to sleep as im convinced it is in that situation the blanking is somehow occurring. this flaw is at least 5 years old in my experience and it surprises me no-one at apple has recognised or fixed this problem, I guess the real issue is to identify in what exact circumstances it is occuring.

I was personally going to switch to one password, but since that has no import ability, Im stuck in a tough place as 400 secure notes each containing many logins and information is not really feasable to translate into one password without huge time and energy and expenditure, so I also struggle along with keychain and its frailtys.

 

[ancientscream]

another keychain issue

I also have an issue related to keychain access which is the following :

I store my keychain on a USB stick, and im discovering after inserting it on a machine, Im having to quit every program which is open on the mac before I can safely eject the usb stick as barmy mac os x seems to think every program is using the keychain on the USB stick, which is often an impossibility as the machine has never encountered the usb stick in question before ?

anybody have any idea what is causing finder to think this keychain on this usb stick is in use by all the programs that are open ?

as this very irritating as it means unless I force eject I have to close 90% of the programs that are open before I can safely unplug the usb stick.

(the keychain im referring too in this question is a seperate keychain from the system / login keychain etc)

 

[Senility]

Secure note access

Hi, sorry i do not know how to do this (mac forums) where does one ask a question? You would appear to know the answer i need so forgive my asking when you expect answers.

Q. How do I open a secure note I have made in key chains?