Exporting Secure Notes (Keychain)

[Kevin Callahan]

On Mar 3, 2008, at 9:10 AM, Adam Bridge wrote:

> If on the originl machine you make a new keychain and copy the notes
> into it, you can then copy that keychain to the new machine.

when I tried that, I was queried for the password for each secure note  
(62 of them) ...
however, you pointed out the TAB that allows you to toggle some options:

Radio 1:   Allow all applications to access this item
Radio 2:   Confirm before allowing access
			Switch: Ask for Keychain password


Given Radio 1, I thought I'd select a half dozen secure notes to see  
if I could change the access control for all of them at the same time.
When I select the group, hit GET INFO (in order to have access to the  
Access Control tab), I get individual GI panels for each note (as  
expected).

So, I can't see how to change the attributes of all notes (maybe  
there's an option I'm missing).


I then decided to create a new keychain to house just secure notes.
When I select a group to copy / paste or drag and drop, I'm prompted  
for the password for each note.

I don't see a way to export Secure Notes nor to sync them as a subset  
of a keychain.

There's an Export Items menu item that is grayed out.  And under  
Keychain HELP, searching on Exporting Items doesn't seem to come up  
with anything.


K


>
>
> The keychain will live in ~/Library/Keychains when you create it.
>
> I agree that synching a subset of keychains would be nice.
>
> For some crazy reason when I try to sync keychains between machines
> I'm asked about a computer that hasn't existed for years and which
> doesn't appear anywhere. Since that machine existed I have completely
> done over my .Mac syching but it hasn't done any good. Since I can't
> give the password for the computer the sync just hangs up asking for
> it forever.
>
> ARGH

ouch!


>
>
> Adam
>
> On Mon, Mar 3, 2008 at 8:21 AM, Kevin Callahan <kcall at mac.com> wrote:
>>
>> On Mar 3, 2008, at 6:44 AM, Curtis Burns wrote:
>>
>>> Doesn't .Mac sync Keychain notes as well as keychains? I'm not in a
>>> position to check right now.
>>
>> yes, it does
>>
>> but I didn't want to sync everything from the MBPro to the new  
>> machine.
>>
>> I just wanted the Secure Notes
>>
>>
>>
>> K
>>
>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Mar 2, 2008, at 20:23 , Kevin Callahan wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Mar 2, 2008, at 5:03 PM, j o a r wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On Mar 3, 2008, at 1:56 AM, Kevin Callahan wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Is there a way to EXPORT "Secure Notes" in a keychain so I can
>>>>>> move them to a new computer?
>>>>>
>>>>> You can copy the entire keychain over to that other computer, open
>>>>> it in Keychain Access, and then (here's where I start guessing)
>>>>> drag and drop items over to the other keychain.
>>>>>
>>>>> j o a r
>>>>
>>>> here's what I've found:
>>>>
>>>> I moved my MBPro keychain to my MacPro.
>>>> I double-clicked the keychain I moved and it loaded via Keychain
>>>> Access as expected.
>>>>
>>>> I can select the 62 secure notes en masse and copy/paste them into
>>>> the keychain I already started using on the MacPro.
>>>>
>>>> However, for each of the 62 items, I am queried for my password.
>>>>
>>>> Since both keychains are named "login.keychain", I just renamed the
>>>> one I moved and will access the secure notes as needed.
>>>>
>>>> K
>>>>