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iCloud keychain reverting to old passwords after migration
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<blockquote data-quote="dal71" data-source="post: 1635623" data-attributes="member: 341722"><p>Yeah, I made those backups long ago! I've also got the Time Machine backup from which I migrated in the first place. I already tried replacing the ~/Library/Keychains folder with the backup one and it doesn't work. It restores the old Login keychain (as it must) but doesn't restore the old iCloud keychain. </p><p></p><p>Inside the new ~/Library/Keychains, there are two directories with cryptic and long alphanumeric names, only one of which occurs on my old desktop and old backups. I think that those directories correspond to the iCloud keychains (one for the old iCloud keychain that was copied over by migration assistant and one that was created on the new device) but doing the obvious things (deleting the new directory and/or replacing its contents with the contents of the old one, etc.) do not successfully restore the old iCloud keychain. So I don't seem to be able to get the new machine to see the old iCloud keychain.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="dal71, post: 1635623, member: 341722"] Yeah, I made those backups long ago! I've also got the Time Machine backup from which I migrated in the first place. I already tried replacing the ~/Library/Keychains folder with the backup one and it doesn't work. It restores the old Login keychain (as it must) but doesn't restore the old iCloud keychain. Inside the new ~/Library/Keychains, there are two directories with cryptic and long alphanumeric names, only one of which occurs on my old desktop and old backups. I think that those directories correspond to the iCloud keychains (one for the old iCloud keychain that was copied over by migration assistant and one that was created on the new device) but doing the obvious things (deleting the new directory and/or replacing its contents with the contents of the old one, etc.) do not successfully restore the old iCloud keychain. So I don't seem to be able to get the new machine to see the old iCloud keychain. [/QUOTE]
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