Whenever I encounter a password field in Safari which it wants to auto-fill using my keychain, it freezes up for a few minutes and shows nothing but the beach ball. I presume it has to do with a corrupted keychain.
In previous versions of macOS, there was the option to repair a keychain. In Mojave, there is no such thing. When I "reset my default keychains", it fixes the problem and everything works as usual. However I lose all my passwords and notes.
What I've tried that didn't work:
- Run first aid from the Disk Manager
- Restored my keychain (contents of
~/Library/Keychains) from a Time Machine backup - Moved everything but
login.keychainto the trash
I know that you could theoretically create a new keychain and copy items from the original keychain, but it keeps prompting for a password for each item which would not be feasible with the amount of items I have stored.
Best Answer
The repair tool was removed over security concerns where it could be use to export your keychain without your permissions. what we're left with are guidances you'll find throughout various blog articles explaining some specific problems with workarounds to "fix" specific issues related to the keychain.
Most of these solutions involve deleting specific offending keys or toggling "Show Summary" or other aspects of a problematic key.