Fix for MobileMe Keychain Sync
August 19, 2009 (late afternoon)
Here’s my fix for the MobileMe keychain sync process wanting to delete all keychain items:
- Set sync mode to manual on all computers
- Reset MobileMe keychain sync on a known good keychain computer
- Open Keychain Access on other computers and delete the affected keychain
- Create a new keychain with the same name
- Set new keychain as default and enable MobileMe sync in the Keychain settings
- Sync, and choose the option “replace data on computer”
Complete the testing with a few back and forth syncs to make sure that a large number of changes aren’t detected. (This technique works well for other sync types, but deleting the data can be much more complicated depending on how it is stored.)
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