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Running repairs: Sierra’s handy tools, from Disk Utility to Storage Management

Sierra sticks with the old favourites like Disk Utility, but still can’t repair permissions or keychains. A new app, Storage Management, has been added.

October 15, 2016 Macs, Technology

How to deal with keychain problems in macOS 10.11.2 and later

Late last year, the utility for repairing keychains quietly vanished from macOS 10.11.2. No one seems to know where its functionality went.

June 18, 2016 Macs, Technology

Q&A: Entering Keychain password on startup

Why do I have to enter my keychain password every time my Mac starts or restarts?

September 13, 2015 Macs, Technology

Q&A: Revealing passwords

Can I change password entry dialogs to show the correct characters instead of blobs?

August 25, 2015 Macs, Technology

Q&A: Locking keychain

Every time that my MacBook starts up, it warns me that AppleIDAuthAgent wants to use the “login” keychain, and I have to enter my password. How can I fix it?

June 3, 2015 Macs, Technology

Q&A: Lost keychain

I have lost my default keychain, which disappeared from Keychain Access. Where can I find it?

May 23, 2015 Macs, Technology

Keychain Cops: getting the most out of your keychain

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Everywhere that you go you need user names, passwords, and other means of proving your identity. In OS X and iOS these are normally stored in a keychain.

April 30, 2015 Macs, Technology

SSL and HTTPS – should you trust them again?

Most of our financial and personal transactions should be protected by secure Internet connections. A year on, how has the Heartbleed bug changed this?

April 4, 2015 General, Macs, Technology

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