Recover Apple Keychain
6 hours ago
- #Keychain Data
- #Password Reset
- #MacOS Recovery
- Locked out of work MacBook due to over-reliance on Touch ID and muscle memory entering the wrong password.
- After contacting IT, reset the password via macOS recovery, which erased keychain data and local user data because the reset doesn't re-encrypt old data.
- Tried to resync with old data but faced delete prompts due to exhausted password attempts.
- As a Linux user, explored recovery options and found keychain files stored in ~/Library/Keychains, with the old file renamed during reset.
- Restored data by replacing the new login.keychain-db with the old login_renamed_1.keychain-db, then entered old password in Keychain Access to sync and update to new password.