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Once there, copy the file named login. You can copy it to a flash drive, external hard drive, or what have you.


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Take the file over to the new Mac and open Spotlight with a click on the magnifying glass icon in the upper right or by hitting Command-Space on your keyboard. Click on the Add button and the new Mac will import the Keychain data right to your new Mac computer. If you feel like testing it, head to a web page or use an app that you typically use Keychain to unlock or login with. Be sure to securely delete the file you copied over to the new mac from your thumb drive or whatever you used.

Secure Empty Trash in the Finder menu is your friend for doing this.

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Got an OS X tip? Need help troubleshooting OS X? Drop me a line or leave a comment below. Via: OS X Daily. The iCloud keychain requires making a local copy of the items, and exporting them also via security. Unfortunately, there can be some issues here. The complexity is due to Apple's closed nature on this. It is also extremely cumbersome.

I don't know of any other way.

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Hi McTylerspapa ,. This thread's title, "Is there a simple way to transfer There is no simple way to transfer data on macOS that is stored in the Keychain, and it can be very difficult to impossible to do so for data that is synced to iCloud e. I often offer to help people remotely when they have trouble with some conversion. In this case, I cannot do that, because the steps required reveal confidential information, and I don't want to see yours. I've tried to be as detailed as possible to help you export the contents of the local Keychain - it should still work - it is cumbersome - but you should be able to get some entries.

For those that are in iCloud, if the steps are too difficult, or if they ultimately don't work anyway, there's not much anyone can do. The best solution for you might be to start using 1Password as usual, open up Keychain Access in macOS, and look through various keychains, at each of the entries in that keychain, and start creating new entries in 1Password as you need to use them, or when you feel like doing some work. Download version 1.

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It is located in Testing Bits, mentioned in the first post. Am I missing something? Is there a way to override the password requirement with a sudo command or something? Thank you! High Sierra, and a subsequent update, made this very difficult. I have yet to find a way to script the automation of the now-required password entry per item. MrC I'm still using Sierra, but it's obviously exhibiting the same behavior.

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Thank you for the response -- I know you contribute a great deal to the 1P community. MrC -- This did the trick! I set a variable for the password and plugged it into the text field and used this script to write the text file from keychain to the desktop. Gusto -- on behalf of MrC - who I'm sure is busy with his actual job - glad this worked for you!

Thanks for sharing your script with us as well. As an FYI for future reference, I just posted an update to version 1. So great!


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Gusto Can you briefly explain how you use that script to export iCloud Keychain data? I can't quite figure out how you'd use it MrC But, iCloud's keychain doesn't show in the list Still doesn't seem like a solution to me My understanding is that I can copy all the iCloud keychain into a new keychain, but, I'd need to type my password or so times. That script automates that process.. BUT, I don't know how to actually use it..

Press the Run button after you've started the copy process for copying your iCloud keychain items to the local keychain you created. MrC Perfect.. WolfSnap Did the script work for you? Gusto Did not work. I may have an updated script for you tomorrow on this.

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I revised it recently, but no longer needed it after I rewrote the keychain converter. MrC Fantastic.. Let me know.. Love to give it a try. MrC Nope.. That's the same issue I'm seeing too.