Hi Pat, XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX Just a disclaimer - the below is as for me on OSX El Capitain 10.11.6 - if you are on a newer OS some things may have changed. XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
Youprobably have a new login keychain with your new password. It would start empty and will only contain what you have done since the PW change. You should still be able to access the info on your old keychain PROVIDED you remember the old login password you used when it was in use. I have had to retrieve old keychains when doing a clean install without migrating user accounts - the login keychain was (like yours) fairly empty and I needed access to my old keychain. Keychain Access can access more than one keychain - I currently have my default keychain - Apple calls this login (in bold) I also have a previous keychain which I called SLlogin (this is from my old Snow Leopard installation) At some stage I should harvest all the info off the old keychain and get it onto the new keychain but, at the minute, I just use both. So first you need to find your old keychain... Apple keeps its keychains in user/Library/Keychains (current for OSX 10.11) depending on what you got up to in terminal your old key chain may be there (but renamed) but it may be possibly easier to go to your SuperDuper backup, find the login keychain, copy it to your desktop, RENAME IT (eg OLDlogin) and then drop it into your user/Library/Keychains folder. Then you need to actually access the keychain... Open the Keychain Access app and under the 'File' dropdown menu click 'Add Keychain" it should open the file selection box at the keychain folder (if not - navigate to the folder) select you newly named old keychain and click the 'add' button. You should now see the keychain in the Keychain Access sidebar - select it and the "All Items" category should show you everything that is in there. To actually show the info, when asked for the password, you obviously need your OLD login password (since that is the password for this keychain). I probably don't need to tell you that you need to be VERY careful when adding/deleting/modifying anything in your keychain(s) - you can really stuff things up otherwise! HTH Cheers Neil -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: [email protected] -----Original Message----- From: <[email protected]> on behalf of Pat <[email protected]> Reply-To: WAMUG <[email protected]> Date: Wednesday, 21 November 2018 at 15:52 To: WAMUG <[email protected]> Subject: Update on Password problem update Hello, all, Many thanks to all who wrote back with suggestions — Diana, Susan, Peter, Tim, Neil. I can log into the computer now. I rang Apple this morning, and was passed through several people to an Apple technician. After he had tried making a few new passwords, and getting the same result as me (in other words — they didn’t work), he guided me through a process using Terminal, and we finally arriived at the fix. It took about 2 hours to get there, an ordeal. But the news is not all good. All my settings and a lot of personal stuff (Key Chain!) is gone, It seems I have to argue with bossy applications to replace the info into them. My 3 Mail accounts persistently rejected having the proper Mail passwords replaced several times. I don’t have Time Machine, just a very large backup hard disk and Super Duper. I do not see any of the Key Chain data — does Super Duper hide it anywhere? If it is not there, I’m going to have a hard time. Apple's automated guide to retrieving passwords needs some urgent improvement. It is impossible in places to know just which password is to be retrieved: thel log-in name or Apple ID. In my case, it was the password specifically to start the computer. And I will not be changing the new password any time soon. Thanks again, Pat > On 21 Nov 2018, at 07:17, Diana & Graham Stevens <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi Pat > > Why don’t you ring Apple support. They solved my password problem when I got no answers. I rang in the late afternoon and got through very quickly. The man also sent me the URL so I could find it again plus some other useful URLs. > > Good luck > > Diana > > Sent from my iPad > > > -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- > Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> > Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> > Settings & Unsubscribe - <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug> -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> Settings & Unsubscribe - <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug> -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> Settings & Unsubscribe - <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug>
