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jparker402

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Jun 7, 2016
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Bellevue, NE
Had difficulty today getting joining a new website through Safari and figuring out the password it generated for me. Finally found that maybe it had gotten saved on Keychain, so I looked up how to enter Keychain to look there. Didn't find what I wanted but found a host of entries that I have no idea how they got in there! I want to go back into Keychain, which I really never deliberately use, and clean it up. I am afraid of doing mass deletions, fearful that I will inadvertently get rid of something important. Would like suggestions how the best way to weed out Keychain's data base. I believe that most of my password controlled sites are entered in Dashlane but still I hesitate to go into Keychain to delete everything! Thanks!
 
Had difficulty today getting joining a new website through Safari and figuring out the password it generated for me. Finally found that maybe it had gotten saved on Keychain, so I looked up how to enter Keychain to look there. Didn't find what I wanted but found a host of entries that I have no idea how they got in there! I want to go back into Keychain, which I really never deliberately use, and clean it up. I am afraid of doing mass deletions, fearful that I will inadvertently get rid of something important. Would like suggestions how the best way to weed out Keychain's data base. I believe that most of my password controlled sites are entered in Dashlane but still I hesitate to go into Keychain to delete everything! Thanks!

I have a lot of duplicated / extraneous message signing keys, message encryption keys in my keychain... no clue what they're from, did a few cursory searches for info, some say it's a bug in Apple's messaging system since El Capitan and that they get generated needlessly on a restart or login to a username on the machine. I haven't done anything about them since I stash my website passwords and a few notes in 1Password. I'm running Mojave.
 
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