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<blockquote data-quote="IWT" data-source="post: 1872103" data-attributes="member: 83420">A warm welcome to Mac-Forums, Angela and thank you for your post.As Keychain is an integral part of the Operating System (OS), it will transfer from Time Machine or a cloned backup to your new Mac.&nbsp; If I recall correctly, even using Migration Assistant to select what is transferred, I think Keychain is part of your settings and would transfer - might be wrong.However you look at it, Keychain is broken.&nbsp; It's useless now and that's how it will stay.&nbsp; What I'd do is delete it and create a new Keychain.&nbsp; Obviously, this is a major hardship because you will, over time, have to train it to accept all your Passwords (PW) as you go about using them and creating new ones when required.As you are about to get a new MacBookPro (congratulations) with a brand new Operating System (OS), now called macOS 11 Big Sur (BS), I'd be inclined to ditch the old Keychain now and start to let it learn your PWs as you input them, then transfer everything over to the new Mac.Takes the pain out of manual transfer and re-downloading apps or other bits that might not come across.Ian</blockquote>

[QUOTE="IWT, post: 1872103, member: 83420"] A warm welcome to Mac-Forums, Angela and thank you for your post. As Keychain is an integral part of the Operating System (OS), it will transfer from Time Machine or a cloned backup to your new Mac. If I recall correctly, even using Migration Assistant to select what is transferred, I think Keychain is part of your settings and would transfer - might be wrong. However you look at it, Keychain is broken. It's useless now and that's how it will stay. What I'd do is delete it and create a new Keychain. Obviously, this is a major hardship because you will, over time, have to train it to accept all your Passwords (PW) as you go about using them and creating new ones when required. As you are about to get a new MacBookPro (congratulations) with a brand new Operating System (OS), now called macOS 11 Big Sur (BS), I'd be inclined to ditch the old Keychain [U]now[/U] and start to let it learn your PWs as you input them, then[U] transfer everything[/U] over to the new Mac. Takes the pain out of manual transfer and re-downloading apps or other bits that might not come across. Ian [/QUOTE]

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