{"id":18336,"date":"2017-07-14T15:00:39","date_gmt":"2017-07-14T19:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=18336"},"modified":"2017-09-26T11:06:56","modified_gmt":"2017-09-26T15:06:56","slug":"fixing-icloud-keychains-and-backing-them-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2017\/07\/14\/fixing-icloud-keychains-and-backing-them-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Fixing iCloud Keychains, and Backing Them Up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/eclecticlight.co\/2017\/07\/14\/fixing-icloud-keychains-and-backing-them-up\/\">Howard Oakley<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/eclecticlight.co\/2017\/07\/14\/fixing-icloud-keychains-and-backing-them-up\/\">\n<p>iCloud Keychain is, in the words of the clich&eacute;, wonderful when it works. And it works a great deal of the time, unless it goes wrong. Even more unfortunately, it most often goes wrong when a user tries to solve another problem, by doing something which inadvertently messes iCK up. Then they are in trouble.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>But with iCK turned on, your login keychain is in iCloud, and is not something which you can access as a file, as you can a local keychain. If you use iCloud for backups, then it is specifically <em>excluded<\/em> from those backups, because Apple argues that it is already stored in iCloud, therefore doesn&rsquo;t need to be backed up. Unless of course something happens to it, like all its password entries get wiped: then you&rsquo;re apparently stuck, contacting iCloud support to try to recover a copy of it before disaster struck.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>When you turn iCK off, the current keychain held in iCloud is downloaded to your Mac (or iOS device), and used as its local keychain. So to make a backup copy of your iCloud keychain, turn iCK off, wait a little while, and back up login.keychain-db from your ~\/Library\/Keychains folder. Once you have made that copy, turn iCK back on, and it should carry on where it left off.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Howard Oakley: iCloud Keychain is, in the words of the clich&eacute;, wonderful when it works. And it works a great deal of the time, unless it goes wrong. Even more unfortunately, it most often goes wrong when a user tries to solve another problem, by doing something which inadvertently messes iCK up. Then they are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[146,16,1417,31,1380,1583,30,1381,981],"class_list":["post-18336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-backup","tag-icloud","tag-icloud-keychain","tag-ios","tag-ios-10","tag-keychain","tag-mac","tag-macos-10-12","tag-passwords"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18336","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18336"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18336\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18337,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18336\/revisions\/18337"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}