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iCloud keychain reverting to old passwords after migration
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<blockquote data-quote="dal71" data-source="post: 1635539" data-attributes="member: 341722"><p>Thanks for your continued help. Sorry to have disappeared but I've been traveling and have only recently had the opportunity to get back to this unpleasant problem.</p><p></p><p>You sort of have it now, but not exactly. When I migrated the account, the old login items (from before iCloud) moved, as expected. But for some reason (perhaps because it used the migration date rather than the date those items were created on the old computer?), the computer proceeded to sync those old items to iCloud. Worse yet, it didn't just add newly dated entries to the iCloud keychain, but overwrote the existing, correct entries. So now all of my synced devices have completely lost the proper iCloud passwords.</p><p></p><p>I still have one computer with the old iCloud keychain. It is the computer I migrated from, which has been disconnected from the network since the migration. </p><p></p><p>From what I've seen online, I think it might be possible to force that iCloud keychain to overwrite the version in the cloud and my other devices. It seems to involve disconnecting my devices from iCloud, then adding back the computer with the definitive version, but failing to authenticate it with my code or another trusted device. Apparently, at that point I should be offered the option of overwriting the cloud version with the version on that computer.</p><p></p><p>Any better ideas?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="dal71, post: 1635539, member: 341722"] Thanks for your continued help. Sorry to have disappeared but I've been traveling and have only recently had the opportunity to get back to this unpleasant problem. You sort of have it now, but not exactly. When I migrated the account, the old login items (from before iCloud) moved, as expected. But for some reason (perhaps because it used the migration date rather than the date those items were created on the old computer?), the computer proceeded to sync those old items to iCloud. Worse yet, it didn't just add newly dated entries to the iCloud keychain, but overwrote the existing, correct entries. So now all of my synced devices have completely lost the proper iCloud passwords. I still have one computer with the old iCloud keychain. It is the computer I migrated from, which has been disconnected from the network since the migration. From what I've seen online, I think it might be possible to force that iCloud keychain to overwrite the version in the cloud and my other devices. It seems to involve disconnecting my devices from iCloud, then adding back the computer with the definitive version, but failing to authenticate it with my code or another trusted device. Apparently, at that point I should be offered the option of overwriting the cloud version with the version on that computer. Any better ideas? [/QUOTE]
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