Move logons and passwords from catalina to Monterey

[lasloduncan]

seems there may be several ways to do it.....the ones I have tried have given me or created new problems and still no logons and passwords on my imac Monterey tried mig ass...moved lots of stuff not logons and passwords or keychain --and so on. I need a one two three moron step by step ..moron for sticking with apple I guess.thank you all for your help once again-

 

[Weaselboy]

Go to this menu in Safari and that will export the web passwords to a CSV file. Then copy that file to the other Mac and use the import from CSV option in the same menu to import.

 

[lasloduncan]

first I have seen of this method ...than you, you have given me great info in the past. thank you very --migration assistant ..keychain access and loading to thumd drive all unworkable for me this will work thank you again weasler

 

[lasloduncan]

Go to this menu in Safari and that will export the web passwords to a CSV file. Then copy that file to the other Mac and use the import from CSV option in the same menu to import.


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[lasloduncan]

after my usual fumbling around I put the cvs file in email sent to myself pulled it off to downloads put it on the desktop and imported to my newish imac and my mbp....operator problems I suspect ...my icloud share or lack of prevented the easy way -I have stuff on my gear I do NOT spread to other gear iphone etc thanks again for you help

 

[lasloduncan]

anyway done and after several hours of messing with it......mac is great if you know of one of the 35 ways that "might" work....

 

[lasloduncan]

p.s. -I did several searchesm apple. etc and no mention of cvs ...fyi that I saw

 

[chrfr]

seems there may be several ways to do it.....the ones I have tried have given me or created new problems and still no logons and passwords on my imac Monterey tried mig ass...moved lots of stuff not logons and passwords or keychain --and so on. I need a one two three moron step by step ..moron for sticking with apple I guess.thank you all for your help once again-

Use iCloud. Turn on iCloud keychain on both computers and the passwords will sync between them automatically.

 

[lasloduncan]

Use iCloud. Turn on iCloud keychain on both computers and the passwords will sync between them automatically.

thank you i suspected it was an icloud issue I have been reluctant to do that ..not sure I like that idea.....