When opening Keychain Access I have a bunch of empty keychains named 1 as well as the normal login keychain. These cannot be deleted.
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 '19 at 23:06
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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 '19 at 6:48
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What msg do you encounter when you attempt to delete these? – slm Apr 19 '19 at 2:14
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Not an answer, but this is not a good sign. I'd do a clean re-install. – Geoff Nixon Apr 19 '19 at 11:59
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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 '19 at 10:19
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 '19 at 11:59
