10.4: A fix for a Keychain Access issue on Intel Macs

Jun 22, '06 07:30:01AM

Contributed by: solrac

You may have noticed with your new Intel Mac that keychains absolutely do not work. You are unable to save new passwords to your keychain, and all keychains previously saved on PowerPC Macs are unreadable. Even if you load up the PowerPC version of Keychain Access using Pacifist or something, you can access your PowerPC keychains, but you still won't be able to reveal passwords.

All of these issues are easily fixed. Simply install the firmware update from Apple. I have a Macbook Pro 15", and there was a firmware update I needed. (The same update that is required before using Boot Camp to install Windows XP on your Mac.)

Now I can save new passwords to my keychain, and my PowerPC version of Keychain Access can reveal my old passwords. (The Intel version of Keychain Access still cannot open a PowerPC-created keychain file, though.)

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