Revert to previous keychain?

[keysofanxiety]

Hi MacRumours,

I stupidly reset my password through recovery partition and clicked 'Create new keychain' on login. Now my iMessage/emails won't work ... is there any simple way I can set the old keychain back to being the default so that all my previously saved passwords will work again?

Thank you!

 

[Weaselboy]

Do you have the old keychain perhaps backed up somewhere?

You would need the file login.keychain from the folder below from your backup. ~ is your username.

~/Library/Keychains/

 

[keysofanxiety]

Do you have the old keychain perhaps backed up somewhere?

You would need the file login.keychain from the folder below from your backup. ~ is your username.

~/Library/Keychains/

Good evening Weaselboy, thank you for your response. I tried re-adding the login.keychain file through Keychain Access, however upon restart it kicked up the good old keychain password error. So I gave up, deleted all of the folders from Keychains in Library and restarted - only a few things to reactivate for iMessage etc. My own stupid fault so I won't be making that mistake again. So all fixed I suppose, nothing more to do.

Again I really appreciate you taking the time to respond. Best wishes!

 

[Weaselboy]

Good evening Weaselboy, thank you for your response. I tried re-adding the login.keychain file through Keychain Access, however upon restart it kicked up the good old keychain password error. So I gave up, deleted all of the folders from Keychains in Library and restarted - only a few things to reactivate for iMessage etc. My own stupid fault so I won't be making that mistake again. So all fixed I suppose, nothing more to do.

Again I really appreciate you taking the time to respond. Best wishes!

Glad you got fixed up. Keychain for sure is not well documented and very confusing.