My first (major) problem with my Mac
I love my Mac. I love the software it runs. But I just ran into a problem that appears to be blatantly obvious, and yet, it happens.I was trying to fix the networking problem between my Windows and my Mac; the problem was that, sometimes, I couldn’t modify files on Windows from my Mac over the network, and sometimes I could. Someone recommended, from an online forum, that I run Keychain First Aid, and so I did. I used the Repair option to repair my keychains. What it did completely baffles me. It deleted my login keychain (or so I thought), which contains all of my passwords that I save on my computer, for applications (such as for my instant messaging client). So, whenever I restarted my computer, each program would always ask me to type in the password once again, and again, and again – on every startup. After poking around a bit, I found that the keychain still existed in ~/Library/Keychains, where I suppose all of the user-created keychains exist. I imported the keychain into Keychain Access, and all is well again.
Just to test the problem, I once again ran Keychain First Aid, and sure enough, the same thing occurred. The program removed all references to my login keychain, so I had to re-import it. Again, I don’t know WHY it does this, but it did. For some reason now, though, after playing around a bit, I have TWO System keychains (I should only have one; they both appear to be duplicates of each other, and I can’t delete either of them) and after running the Repair option again, my login keychain doesn’t disappear.
If someone could explain what is going on, then that’d be nice.
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Gary, as you know..I’m the one who suggested KeyChain FirstAid. And as you already read in the the Apple Discussions, the other guy said that he wouldn’t have expected the total removal of all keychain entries.
In any case, Sorry that my (what should have been a) quick fix…turned into a mess.
Apologies for getting you off track, but congrats on getting the workaround going.
Last time I suggest THAT for a while.
Best wishes,
Rick
Yep, no problem Rick. Not your fault at all
Strange behavior from Keychain, though; I’m sure it’s not a bug, but it must’ve been some circumstancial event that caused it.
It’s a bug! Yes! If you only had Windows like me then you wouldn’t have that networking problem. I mean like, look how nicely the yearbook network runs, when they aren’t being infected by malicious programs. Why don’t you just transfer the file over when you want to modify a file?
Because it’s faster to modify it on the PC. I have each computer for a different task.
Anyways, you guys had a TON of problems with the yearbook computers
If only all the computers on my network were Macs, then life would be swell.
Go Microsoft, yes, drive home the point David, we must convert Gary back into our faith
No, life would not be swell. Think of the computer games! Being able to play computer games is all that matters :p And I know it’s faster to modify it on the PC, but seeing as how you run into the problems sometimes with that, then if you get into the habit of just transfering the file over, then the problem doesn’t matter. Sure there were a lot of problems with the yearbook computers, but the problems were fixed every time. Or we were able to ignore them, so that didn’t matter. You could go buy some used Macs off eBay or something to replace the PCs.