[Macpartners] Keychain transfer in High Sierra?

[John-Elmer Canfield]

iCloud will synchronize the keychains via your Apple ID.

Elmer


On Feb 16, 2018, at 1:11 PM, Brenna Levitin <blevitin at wi.mit.edu<mailto:blevitin at wi.mit.edu>> wrote:

Hello all,

I'm interested in speaking to anyone who has successfully transferred a Mac keychain from one computer (ideally running 10.11 (El Capitan) or later) to a new computer, running 10.12 (Sierra) or 10.13 (High Sierra).

I'm specifically looking for a method to transfer the keychain without using Migration Assistant and migrating the entire account.

The most recent documentation I can find is this fairly outdated (links to a deprecated page) Apple page: https://support.apple.com/kb/PH20120?locale=en_US

I've tried following these instructions (copy login.keychain from ~/Library/Keychains, rename and transfer to new computer, in Keychain Access --> Add Keychain), but I've ended up with a variety of errors or odd behavior, including OS X prompting for the password to the old keychain on every restart or entirely randomly.

Thanks, in advance, for your help!

Best,
Brenna Levitin

Desktop Support Technician
Whitehead Institute
blevitin at wi.mit.edu<mailto:blevitin at wi.mit.edu>
(617)258-5134<tel:(617)%20258-5134>

_______________________________________________
Macpartners mailing list
Macpartners at mit.edu<mailto:Macpartners at mit.edu>
http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/macpartners
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: http://mailman.mit.edu/pipermail/macpartners/attachments/20180216/c5c2bcdf/attachment.html