Select the keychain from which you wish to copy, and ensure the category at the lower left is set to All Items. You now have to populate it from your old one. Whichever approach you use, your new keychain is empty. If you want to give it a new password, you can click on the key button and get the helper to construct one for you. You will then be prompted to enter a new password for it: enter your normal login password here, so that it starts off in sync with your login password. Give it a name such as newlogin, and save it to the default Keychains folder. It will then create a new empty login keychain, and rename the old one, from which you can copy the contents over to the new login keychain.Īlternatively, you can use the New Keychain… command in the File menu to create a new empty keychain, although that will not then be named login, which is the standard default keychain. Open Preferences, and click on the Reset My Default Keychain button at the bottom if you wish to use this. If it is locked, see this article for dealing with that issue.Īpple provides a shortcut for creating a new default keychain in the Preferences dialog of Keychain. In normal circumstances, it should be left unlocked from then on. Normally when you first open the app, it opens login, which is the current user’s login keychain, used from authentication at login.
You cannot move or remove this app, as it is protected by SIP in Sierra. Locate the app Keychain Access, in the Utilities folder of your top-level Applications folder.
However, in theory at least, with iCloud Keychain enabled, you should not have to repair a keychain. You may find it best to turn this off before you perform any of this. If you have iCloud Keychain enabled, you should read Apple’s guidance on this. Although this article has been written using Keychain Access 9.0 in macOS Sierra 10.12.1, these instructions should hold good for El Capitan too. If you have a defective keychain, the only way that you can try to fix it now is to make a fresh one, and copy over as much as you can from your old keychain. As of OS X 10.11.2, Apple removed the repair feature in its Keychain Access app, for security reasons.
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