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by zapkyeskrill 76 days ago
Good information to have. I was surprised by step 2 though (rm login.keychain-db). How can you be absolutely sure it doesn't contain anything important and you won't need it later?

I'd probably opt for a more defensive action here and just rename it (like the original reset did).
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joshstrange 76 days ago
I'm hoping that was just the blog version of what they did (since more succinct) but yes, I have so many "-CURRENTDATE-EXPLAINATION.ext" files for any flat-file databases I interact with (keychain, sqlite, db4, etc). It's saved me more times than I can count.

Going in to fix a service that uses sqlite and seeing 5 other times I recovered data or was making a change is always fun.

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arkoinad 75 days ago
I left that bit of information out of the post but I actually had a copy of the Keychains directory before I mv-ed login-1.keychain-db to login.keychain-db. Since that confirmed my hunch it probably gave the sense I was confident in moving instead of renaming.
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