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When opening Keychain Access I have a bunch of empty keychains named 1 as well as the normal login keychain. These cannot be deleted.

Empty Keychains

What are they and what are they for? How do I get rid of them? (Should I?)

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  • Do these keychain files also appear in your ~/Library/Keychains folder?
    – Tim Campbell
    Apr 17, 2019 at 23:06
  • Which macOS are you using? If >10.11 than you can use 'Keychain First Aid', which (unfortunatly) has been removed in later macOS Versions
    – J.C.
    Apr 18, 2019 at 6:48
  • What msg do you encounter when you attempt to delete these?
    – slm
    Apr 19, 2019 at 2:14
  • Not an answer, but this is not a good sign. I'd do a clean re-install.
    – Geoff Nixon
    Apr 19, 2019 at 11:59
  • Those are other user key chains that you don’t have rights to. Are there other accounts on the machine? Normally you wouldn’t be explicitly locked from viewing the key chains.
    – Wilfred Smith
    Apr 20, 2019 at 10:19

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Just found that you can press delete on each of them and remove them. Takes a while if yours is just like mine and had a few hundred but at least you can remove them.

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  • I also had to restart Keychain Access for it to realise that the empty keychains had in fact been deleted.
    – sqwk
    May 22, 2019 at 11:59

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