Home Sync stalls at logout

30+ users - managed clients with mobile accounts.
Everyone at some time has logged out at end of day, walked away as the Home sync 'barber pole' progresses, and come in to the same screen the following day. Cancelling the stalled Home Sync screen allows the logout to complete and return to the login screen...
Why shoulsd this be? it is intermittent across all users, across all sites...

Maybe:
Win 8 TS1538 Ipod not syncing: Apple Support Communities

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Home Sync completely f**ked up for years now

Can someone at Apple please pull themselves away from their iPad for a couple of days and FIX PORTABLE HOME SYNC. I'm sick of using it - it's been broken since it was introduced.
If it would just honor the rules set in workgroup manager would be a start. And yes I've tried dumping the managed preferences folder which makes no difference at all. Tried rebinding clients too. I don't EVER want to sync the library folder or any of it's contents yet it still does no matter what you do.
While you are at it, please fix SUS which is also completely broken in 10.6 server. Does anyone at Apple ever even read these forums?

Like most OS X applications there are a lot of settings that just aren't available in the GUI. The Preference Manifests gives you these settings as well as a description: Here are the settings available for homeSync:
*Home Sync* (Home Sync preferences)
*New Mobile Account* (Set to true if this is a new mobile account that should be synced initially.)
*Background Sync On* (Set to true to sync in the background.)
*Background Sync Interval* (Background sync interval in seconds.)
*Override Home Sync Prefs* (Set to true to replace the user's Home Sync preferences with managed preferences. Set to false to combine with managed preferences.)
*Override Preference Sync Prefs* (Set to true to replace the user’s Preference Sync preferences with managed preferences. Set to false to combine them with managed preferences.)
*Home Sync Items* (Include items to sync in the background while the user is logged in.)
*Managed Home Sync Items* (Include managed items to sync in the background while the user is logged in.)
*Preference Sync Items* (Include items to sync when a user logs in or logs out.)
*Managed Preference Sync Items* (Include managed items to sync when a user logs in or logs out.)
Description (Description of file or folder to sync.)
Path (Path of file or folder to sync.)
*Home Sync Exclusions* (List items to exclude from Home Sync.)
*Managed Home Sync Exclusions* (List managed items to exclude from Home Sync.)
*Preference Sync Exclusions* (List items to exclude from Preference Sync.)
*Managed Preference Sync Exclusions* (List managed items to exclude from Preference Sync.)
Comparison (Comparison type.)
Value (Comparison value.)
*Managed Home Sync Union Policy* (Managed Home Sync union policy)
*Managed Preference Sync Union Policy* (Managed Preference Sync union policy)
*Managed Background Exclusions Union Policy* (Managed Background exclusions union policy)
*Managed Preference Exclusions Union Policy* (Managed Preference exclusions union policy)
*Login Preference Sync Conflict Resolution* (This setting affects syncing ~/Library at login. Set to “mobileHomeWins” to merge homes and have the local (mobile) home win conflicts, “mobileHomeCopy” to copy the local home to the network home, “automatic” or “networkHomeWins” to merge homes and have the network home win conflicts, or “networkHomeCopy” to copy the network home to the local home.)
*Login Non-preference Sync Conflict Resolution* (This setting affects syncing everything besides ~/Library at login. Set to “showConflictDialogs” to show dialogs when conflicts occur, “mobileHomeWins” to merge homes and have the local (mobile) home win conflicts, “mobileHomeCopy” to copy the local home to the network home, “automatic” or “networkHomeWins” to merge homes and have the network home win conflicts, or “networkHomeCopy” to copy the network home to the local home.)
*Logout Preference Sync Conflict Resolution* (This setting affects syncing ~/Library at logout. Set to “mobileHomeWins” to merge homes and have the local (mobile) home win conflicts, “mobileHomeCopy” to copy the local home to the network home, “networkHomeWins” to merge homes and have the network home win conflicts, or “networkHomeCopy” to copy the network home to the local home.)
*Logout Non-preference Sync Conflict Resolution* (This setting affects syncing everything besides ~/Library at logout. Set to “showConflictDialogs” to show dialogs when conflicts occur, “automatic” or “mobileHomeWins” to merge homes and have the local (mobile) home win conflicts, “mobileHomeCopy” to copy the local home to the network home, “networkHomeWins” to merge homes and have the network home win conflicts, or “networkHomeCopy” to copy the network home to the local home.)
*Home Sync Conflict Resolution* (This setting affects syncing everything besides ~/Library in the background. Set to “automatic” or “showConflictDialogs” to show dialogs when conflicts occur, “mobileHomeWins” to merge homes and have the local (mobile) home win conflicts, “mobileHomeCopy” to copy the local home to the network home, “networkHomeWins” to merge homes and have the network home win conflicts, or “networkHomeCopy” to copy the network home to the local home.)
*Sync Preferences During Login* (This setting allows you to sync preferences during login. Set to “automatic” or “sync” to sync preferences at login, or “dontSync” to not sync preferences at login.)
*Sync Preferences During Logout* (This setting allows you to sync preferences during logout. Set to “automatic” or “sync” to sync preferences at logout, or “dontSync” to not sync preferences at logout.)
*Sync Preferences During Manual Sync* (This setting allows you to sync preferences during a manual sync. Set to “automatic” or “sync” to sync preferences during a manual sync, or “dontSync” to not sync preferences during a manual sync.)
*Sync Preferences in the Background* (This setting allows you to sync preferences during a background sync. Set to “automatic” or “sync” to sync preferences in the background, or “dontSync” to not synchronize preferences in the background.)
*Sync Home Sync Items During Login* (This setting allows you to sync Home Sync items during login. Set to “automatic” or “sync” to sync Home Sync items at login, or “dontSync” to not sync Home Sync items at login.)
*Sync Home Sync Items During Logout* (This setting allows you to sync Home Sync items during logout. Set to “automatic” or “sync” to sync Home Sync items at logout, or “dontSync” to not sync Home Sync items at logout.)
*Sync Home Sync Items During Manual Sync* (This setting allows you to sync Home Sync items during a manual sync. Set to “automatic” or “sync” to sync Home Sync items during a manual sync, or “dontSync” to not sync Home Sync items during a manual sync.)
*Sync Home Sync Items in the Background* (This setting allows you to sync Home Sync items during a background sync. Set to “automatic” or “sync” to sync Home Sync items in the background, or “dontSync” to not synchronize Home Sync items in the background.)
*Suppress Login Preference Sync Errors* (Set to true to suppress error dialogs during login sync of ~/Library.)
*Suppress Login Non-preference Sync Errors* (Set to true to suppress error dialogs during login sync of everything besides ~/Library.)
*Suppress Logout Preference Sync Errors* (Set to true to suppress error dialogs during logout sync of ~/Library.)
*Suppress Logout Non-preference Sync Errors* (Set to true to suppress error dialogs during logout sync of everything besides ~/Library.)
*Suppress Initial Sync Errors* (Set to true to suppress error dialogs during initial sync.)
*Suppress Home Sync Errors* (Set to true to suppress error dialogs during a home sync.)
*Login Dialog Timeout* (Maximum seconds to display login error or conflict dialogs. Set to 0 for no time limit.)
*Logout Dialog Timeout* (Maximum seconds to display logout error or conflict dialogs. Set to 0 for no time limit.)
*Disable First Time Sync Cancel* (Set to True to disable canceling a first time sync.)
*Disable Login Sync Cancel* (Set to True to disable canceling a login sync.)
*Disable Logout Sync Cancel* (Set to True to disable canceling a logout sync.)
*Time To Delay Progress Dialog* (The time in whole seconds that the progress dialog delays for various reasons. The default is set to 0.5 seconds if you don't set this key)
*Alert On Failed Mounts* (Set to True if you want an alert if the network home mount fails.)

Home Sync never completes on a logout from OSX Server

I have a Mac Pro running 10.6.4 and MacBook running same rev level. Seemed to have successfully configured Open Directory on the Mac Pro to manage mobile accounts. Mac Pro OD also is configured with AFP file sharing turned "on" and /Network share for storing portable home folders for the mobile accounts.
When logging into a managed mobile account on the MacBook, Home Sync fires up fine and completes its work. Created a file and saved it. Log out and Home Sync places file back into the Mac Pro repository for the Home Folders (under /Network). All seems well, until....
I decide to do some work on the MacPro with the managed mobile account. The login completes fine. I work with the file I originally created while on the MacBook. The problem occurs when I logout from this session. A message pops up indicating, and I paraphrase, that a Sync would not be necessary if I were to use /Network location. I click ok and the system proceeds to perform a Home Sync that then runs forever (ok all night or 8 hours after which time I click cancel).
Any ideas on resolving this problem? Thanks!

Please disregard my earlier post. I found what my problem is. I had the incorrect IP address setup on my client (long story).
Message was edited by: Dave Razorsek

Mobile Account Home Sync Duplicate Files

We use profile manager, with an OSX mobility profile with home sync, for management of our OSX devices, combined with AD sign on with "create a mobile account on sign on.
For many of our users, they are experiencing files are duplicating with .network extension on the end, and that deleted files are being re-synced back to their device.
Setting the keep most recent option with the sync conflicts appears to fix the .network file issue, but the returning of deleted documents, appears to be repeat occurring.
I haven't found any documentation regarding the issue on how to resolve it, and I am currently in the process of trying to replicate the issue myself.
Is there a work around or fix to this issue?
Appears to be happening across different versions of OSX. 10.8 - 10.10

Hi, the only workaround I know of, is to uncheck the library folder from syncing, ANYTHING running live while the home folder is syincing (MS office for example, it's DB is in your docs folder, will cause a sync error, as well as iphoto.. etc.. the only other way to fix this, is to set it to sync manually at login & logout. I wish my issues were that easy

Home Sync errors with Chrome files

Recently a bunch of users in our office have been getting constant Home Sync errors, most commonly with Google Chrome files. File Sync opens and lists a number of errors syncing files including:
Favicons
History
History Index 2012-02
History index 2012-03
Network Action Predictor
Shortcuts
Web Data
among others. Any idea what's going on? Are the files locked by Chrome or something so Home Sync generates errors? Did something change in Lion or Chrome in the last few weeks because this never happened previously?
Lion 10.7.3
Chrome 17.0.963.65

I ended up having to enforce this from our Open Directory server. You could uncheck "Library" from your homesynced folders on a per machine basis but that will have other consequences because things you would like to have backed up/synced won't be.
From our mac server: Workgroup Manager->(Computer group name you want to manage)->Preferences->Mobility->Preference Sync->At logout+manually
So I don't have it sync on login or in the background, only when they are logging out, hopefully warnings won't show up or it will be less intrusive.
Homesync still has a lot of rough edges, I wish there was a cleaner option

Mobile Home Sync Issues

I just setup a 10.5 Server and 10.5 client - Home sync is working, however my login sync is set to do ONLY ~/Library - it seems to search the entire home folder, and syncs what ever has changed - I've tried reseting this and haven't had any luck. It seems to happen on any of the 3 accounts I've created so far. Anyone else having this issue? I'm in the learning process, but have to roll out a similar setup for a client pretty soon - I can't have my login/logout times this long .
Homes are setup via AFP
G5 1.8 Dual 4GB Ram 1x 75GB Raptor (Boot) 1x External 1TB HD
Clean Install no upgrade (this is a test machine)
10.5 Server Running:
OD
DNS
DHCP
AFP
SMB
PRINT
iCAL
WEB
10.5 Client (PBG4 1.67, 2GB RAM, 80GB)
- Clean install - 1 admin account - other accounts via OD/Mobile Homes

There's a bucketload of new preference keys in com.apple.HomeSync.plist that affect what syncs when:
<key>syncBackgroundSetAtLogin</key>
<string>dontSync</string>
<key>syncBackgroundSetAtLogout</key>
<string>dontSync</string>
<key>syncPreferencesAtLogin</key>
<string>sync</string>
<key>syncPreferencesAtLogout</key>
<string>sync</string>
<key>syncPreferencesAtSyncNow</key>
<string>sync</string>
<key>syncPreferencesInBackground</key>
<string>dontSync</string>
I think that you want to set syncBackgroundSetAtLogin and syncBackgroundSetAtLogout to dontSync.

Portable Home Syncing corrupts iPhoto Library

Server setup:
Snow Leopard Server 10.6.2 (clean install)
Everything setup according to spec; works great.
Client setup:
Snow Leopard 10.6.2 (clean install)
iLife '09
Portable syncing rule set to sync the Pictures folder ONLY at login and logout. At no other time is it sync.
Bug:
Everytime it syncs; the entire iPhoto Library gets corrupted and I get a 'There was a problem syncing this file'
When I check the file, the iPhoto Library is a generic white icon with a size of a few megs versus the original 5GB. (yes I have a backup).
Any idea what may be causing this?
I cannot deploy Snow Leopard Server for my clients because of this silly bug.

Hi all.
I'm also having serious problems concerning "Home Syncing".
So far those are my conclusions:
• Home Syncing cannot understand when a file is locked. It will simply replace the "archived" file on the server with a corrupted and incomplete one. (Time Machine, for instance, delays the syncing of that file until it is no longer being used):
• Because of the last problem it's impossible to use the syncing interval on the System Preferences. It's simply begging for havoc and chaos.
• Home Syncing (again on direct opposition to Time Machine) does not understand the concept of bundles (or packages, whatever is the correct expression in English... English that I'm not a native nor a fluent speaker, sorry about that
Not being able to understand those wonderful "folders as a single file" concept makes it try to copy my full Aperture library, even if I just open and close the thing.
So it's guaranteed fun for almost half an hour every time that I do some logout sync.
• Even using only login / logout sync, Aperture library will get eventually corrupted, as will pretty much every other item that I try to sync that happens to be a bundle (That God for 1Password automatically backup of it's own library, otherwise I would have lost all my logins passwords and Software serial numbers).
• Every so often files that were deleted on a machine on the last day, simply find their way back at login syncing.
And the opposite also happens. Changes made in a user folder on one of the machines, simply don't replicate when a user logs in onto another one.
• If a folder or file name is changed, Home Syncing will not understand that as a change.
Instead it will get from the server the old file/folder while keeping the new one.
Since it will copy the full content of the folder, just changing the name back to the old one, you better pray that there's not that much info inside otherwise it's time to grab a coffee and the daily newspaper.
• Copying is slow. Painfully slow!
In a full Gigabit Ethernet connection, whose transfer while using AFP are extremely fast, Home Syncing can take 10x the amount of time to copy a similar folder.
Home Syncing seems pretty much as a 2nd class citizen on the Server package.
It's copy capabilities are way bellow of the expected, showing basic errors that were quickly fixed on Time Machine but that still remain here since (at least) Mac OS X Server 10.5.
I like this concept... actually I like it a lot.
As long as you have access to a Mac OS X Server, you can basically create your own cloud.
Even without having to sync the full home folder, just a specific "cloud" folder (something like a dropbox folder).
That connected with a Time Machine backup to allow you to retrieve older version of a file (whenever necessary) and you would have a great and safe working environment... something that I would love to do, if only Home Syncing wasn't just a big disaster.
Let's hope that Apple can figure out what's happening and release an update to fix this.

After 10.5.7 update, extremely slow home sync

After updating the server to 10.5.7, the 'full' sync at login/logout has become extremely slow. On a sub-spec Leopard machine like a 500MHz G4 it actually took 30 minutes to log in because of slow syncing. On a MacBook (Core Duo) it takes 15 minutes. It takes long checking, it is very slow syncing, and finishing takes another 4-5 minutes.
On 10.5.6 it was OK. Both clients have been updated to 10.5.7 client. Multiple login/logouts do not change anything. Logging out (15min sync) and immediately logging in results in another 15min sync.
Most of the time seems spent syncing of Library/PubSub. It may be just 1.5MB or so, but it takes ages.
I am using server side file tracking.
Anything I can try to do to make this usable again?

I first removed syncing ~/Library/PubSub but this did not help too much.
I removed the contents of ~/.FileSync from clients (2) and server. Since the clients have FileVault home dirs that requires being logged in everywhere.
The old SQLite db in ~/.FileSync directory was 16MB, the new one 1.8MB. After that, I have seem an improved responsiveness. Still not something extremely fast, but good enough.
It would be good if there was some sort of 'reclaim' functionality in the SQLite db that underlies home syncing, just like there is for FileVaulted home directories.

10.5 portable home sync rules not being respected on the client...

Portable home syncing is working great for me on my Tiger server and clients, and I'm an old hat at Apple server and OD.... However in my test environment for 10.5, my client machines reuse to respect the rules that I've set in 10.5 Server Workgroup Manager for portable home syncing. I was hoping 10.5.2 would fix this for me, but no luck....
I can tell that the clients are bound to the OD and are reading the MCX settings from the server, because I can change the sync time interval, and that is being reflected on the client. WGM is set to NOT allow settings to be merged with user's settings, so I can eliminate the client settings as a variable.
Both Login/Logout and background sync are effected by this problem.
Is anyone else having this issue?

Bruce's solution above does indeed work. However, I must have stared at his answer for 20 minutes trying to figure out what he was talking about. Undoubtedly, my inability to initially parse his solution comes from my more basic understanding of OS X Server. Since there are likely others out there with this same Home Sync problem and my same level of experience with OS X Server I wanted to give Bruce's answer again but with more detail.
The problem, as explained by the original post, is that Home Sync settings for a user or group aren't necessarily respected. For example, if I were to open Workgroup Manager (WGM), select myself as a user (Berylium), click Preferences, select Mobility from the Overview tab, and select the Rules tab I would be in the Home Sync preferences. If I tell the Login & Logout Sync tab to Always do what I select and then I uncheck the Sync at login and logout checkbox one would expect that when I log in or log out I would not see a Home Sync dialog popup and perform a sync operation - but I did.
The issue as Bruce explains occurs because of another setting I have enabled, Background Sync, and a quirk (bug?) in Leopard Server. I have Background Sync enabled, set to Always, and told to sync in the background my ~/Documents and ~/Desktop folders. Leopard Server, it seems, performs the following operation when I login or logout:
1. Is Login & Logout Sync enabled? No, ok skip this part.
2. Is Background Sync enabled? Yes! Ok, sync the background sync items now even though this is a login or log out.
Clever, Apple. Ok, now that the problem has been explained let's get to the solution.
1. Open WGM, select your problem user or group, click Preferences, and select the Details tab
2. Click the +, navigate to /System/Library/CoreServices/, select ManagedClient, and click Add
- At this point, at least in my installation, several more items appeared in the preference editor list.
3. Select Home Sync in the preference editor list then click the Edit button (looks like a pencil)
4. Expand the Always list item
- Obviously, this is where some people's solution could begin to differ from mine. You may want to edit items in the Once or Often list items.
5. Click the New Key button, a New Item will be created and selected, click New Item and select Sync Background Set During Login from the list.
6. Change the Value item for Sync Background Set During Login from automatic to dontSync
7. Repeat steps 5 and 6 but select Sync Background Set During Logout
8. Click Apply Now followed by Done
Now you should be all set. Thank you Bruce for the solution to this problem and I hope someone else finds my more detailed explanation helpful.
-Berylium

Profile Manager 3.1.2 home sync setting being ignored on client

Hey,
We currently have all of our Mac clients successfully home syncing with Server 2.2.2 and WGM but we would like to upgrade to the latest version and finally move over to Profile Manager.
I am currently trying to test Server 3.1.2 on a closed network with a couple of test clients.
Everything seems to be working as expected and all deployment settings are being correctly set on each client.
However the one thing that refuses to work on the client is the Home Sync settings that have been deployed.
I have Home Sync set to sync at logout and manually only.
On the client i can clearly see that the variable "syncBackgroundSetAtLogout" is set to "sync" within the com.apple.homeSync.plist file. However when I logout on either client I get no sync happening at all.
Manually syncing works fine but I need this logout sync setting to work as I do not wish to have to go to each client on our network and manually set the settings from the "mobile settings" pane in preferences.
Has anyone else come across this with 3.1.2 and maybe overcome it?
Thanks, Justin

Figured it out. I think it's just my interpretation of the sync settings that was the problem. For some reason you have to manage settings that you don't want managed and specify not to manage them. (?!)

Home Sync Scheduling

Hi there.
I am using one Mac Mini server to do the Home Sync for around 15-20 users. Currently the options for when to do the sync is limited to "at login", "at logout", "in the background" which can be set for every 5 mins to 8 hours and then manually. I have it set as "at logout" at the moment because I don't want my users to wait many minutes before starting work each day and the background option slows down their computer during work hours. But the "at logout" option means when people all leave work at around the same time each day, it slows the server a lot. Is there any better way to do it so it will only run during non-work hours, and not all 15-20 computers at the same time.
Thanks.

Not really. Each of those options is there for a reason.
Preference files for the system and apps are continuously open when the app is in use, so don't behave well if synced while the app is open. A logout sync closes al the users apps and files, then does a sync. It is designed this way to catch those preference files at a moment when they aren't in flux.
A login sync is useful if your users move around to different workstations a lot, so that their sesion opens in a replica of the state they were in yesterday, on whatever computer they were working on the day before. If they don't jump around between machines, I can see you skipping the login sync.
The background sync is there to sync all the other stuff, that doesn't need special treatment at the Logout sync. Honestly, I can't see this affecting your user's performance in any measurable way. I'd let it keep syncing, perhaps every 1 or 2 hours.
To get your logout times shorter, limit your logout syncing to just things in the ~/Library folder (or just ~/Library/Preferences folder). I think this is an option.
Syncing doesn't occur at all when the user is not logged in, so you can't make it run during "non-work" hours.

Mobile account settings & home sync

I've learned recently that introducing a MacBook into a corporate Windows world is easier said than done, but I've been fairly successful. One problem that has occurred recently (maybe due to a recent update) is that I can no longer access the Mobile account settings in my Accounts preferences. I setup the first MacBook Pro around the first of March. I successfully assigned a networked location as my home folder, and it synced just fine.
Now I've setup a second MacBook Pro today and found that I can't access the Mobile account settings in the Accounts preferences. Going back to my original MacBook Pro, I get the same thing... greyed out. I click on the Home Sync button in the toolbar and I click on "Sync Now" and I get no response. I see that it shows my last Home sync was on 3/4/10.
I don't have an OSX server here, we're using Active Directory on a Win2008 server. No specific rules have been assigned to these machines, but the accounts are Active Directory accounts.
Anyone have an idea why I can't use the home functions? These are new 15" MacBook Pro models with 10.6.3 software.
Thanks in advance.

Hi,
I got the same problem with our second Mac. But after activating it in: System -> Library -> CoreServices -> Menu Extras and then HomeSync.menu, it became editable.
Does someone know how to change the server folder that the mac will sunc with?
BR
Paul

Home Sync Not Working! Please Help!

Hi Everyone,
So I have a Mac Mini running Snow Leopard Server and two clients three clients all running Lion. Everyone has Portable Home Directories with File Syncing which syncs up documents and the desktop folder This seems to be working fine except I am running into one problem. I have a iMac and a Macbook Pro and i often will do work on my laptop and then want to swtich to my iMac and pickup where I left off with my work. I have used file sync and portable home directories to keep my iMac and MacBook Pro in sync and this seemed to be working fine up until a few days ago. For some reason, If I make a change on my Macbook pro like say I add a folder and have it sync, it will often times not sync that file and rarely it will, however if I were to drop a file onto the network volume, it would appear on my MacBook Pro right away. My iMac seems to be working fine however. If I create a file, it will show up on the server, and vise versa so I am wondering if there is a way to reset home sync or what I could to make it work correctly. I have tried going into workgrop manager and telling it to never sync and then reenableing the sync but this didn't work and I have also tried deleteing all the files and then bringing them all back and again the same probelms happen. Also repaired permissions on all machines. Any suggetions on how I could fix this?
Thanks,
-Mike

Tried reinstalling windows 7 and iTunes on a brand new SSD disk. Also updated iPhone iOS to 6.1
I am getting desperate.

Home sync not working

I have problems with my snow leopard server, 10.6.8.
The student folder permissions show that the owner has read & write but the home sync fails. Says the share isn't available.

I have the same issue on the Lion 10.7.3 server. Still working on a solution. Got me stumped so far. I can see the share and access it for read/write through finder - however, when I try to sync the home folder through the menu item I get the same error. Weird.

Mobile Home Sync damaged my settings. iCloud Keychain only partially restored. What can I do?

Mobile Home Sync (I'm using Mobile Accounts from OS X Server) on my desktop suddenly started syncing what it should not, all stuff that is normally excluded from a PHD sync, such as contents in Library. I stopped it, but not fast enough to prevent all damage. One thing that was damaged was the 'lock screen with password on sleep' setting and apparently as a result of that (or a combination of that) the iCloud Keychain was gone.
I was able (after some trouble, the Security & Privacy tab of System Preferences came up blank at first) to set the password on unlock from sleep, then I reattached the iCloud keychain. But the keychain only has a small part of what was in there and many passwords of web sites seem to be lost. Also interestingly, when trying to login to this community, some sort of iPhoto/Flickr login/password was suggested.
I also have a laptop that was not damaged. Is there a way I can get the keychain from there and use it to repair the keychain on the desktop?
PS. Apple: can you please after years and years of neglect repair Mobile Accounts and Portable Home Directories? iCloud is not only far from complete for that (a half-ready solution if at all) and it also means your data is synced outside of your domain (which is not always legally allowed). Mobile Accounts is so broken that I have started to use Synk to make sure some parts (such as the iPhoto Library) still can be synced to the server. And (as the above shows) it is quite capable of damaging the data on your system (rather a definite no on my list).

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