Apple Keychain First Aid

[Murlyn]

This is a really kewl little program from Apple that has helped me numerous times when my keychain became corrupted.. it seems to work perfectly! I just though I would share it with you guys incase you didn't know about it

http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/9944
http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/16997

The Keychain First Aid utility enables you to verify or repair your keychain content. It can fix:
• A user's .Mac password is not retained in Internet preference pane, as described in technical document 107097, "Mac OS X 10.2: Won't Save .Mac Password".
• Mail and iChat could continue to prompt users for their password after saving it in the keychain.
• A user could be unexpectedly prompted to unlock the keychain after changing account information or Home directory location.
• Duplicate Mail passwords could appear in the keychain, as described in technical document 106546, "Mac OS X 10.1: Re-enter Mail Password After Upgrade".
• Multiple references to the same keychain could appear in the Keychain Access application.
• Applications are unable to retrieve items from a keychain file located on a network volume.
• Saved passwords could not be read if they were created or modified by certain pre-release versions of Jaguar.
• A Keychain dialog can sometimes prompt for permission to decrypt a "(null)" item.

 

[rman]

Thanks for the notice.

 

[schweb]

I've used it once and it did work great. It's a nice utility that I think Apple should just bundle with the OS really....

 

[outlook]

re:

I have been using it. outlook express crashes and outlook express dbx recovery more stable and secure than other programs.

 

[larryE]

just tried first aid, didnt work!

hi

installed first aid, but to run it it asked me for my authentication password. However this is the problem. I have just had 10.4 installed and when i put in what i think is the password is and many variations, it tell me its invaild so i cant even get the thing going, any ideas anyone?

 

[Murlyn]

Yeah this is a really really old thread and it's actually built into the keychain program now.

 

[PowerBookG4]

Yeah I looked at the date when I first opened this, and was like.. hmmm I think this no longer applies.