Keychain items- GONE!

This is the first real issue I've had with my Mac. That being said, when I whet to check my email using Entourage and I was prompted to enter my password ??? That was a first. When I did it would not allow me to save it to my Keychain. I went to the Keychain application everything was gone. All passwords for all applications and websites were gone. The only change made in the last few days was installing Safari 3 beta. Any ideas?
I know that this is not a HUGE issue, but I'm not comfortable with things just disappearing and changing without reason. That's why I dumped Windows!

If none of the posted solutions or the article resolved your problem, try this. Login to the Saidi account, select System Preferences->Accounts->unclick the lock, using the Saidi password, delete the Home account, selecting the save data option (that will put it into a disk image and save in /Users/Deleted Users/. Now, create a new admin account using the same username/password combination on the deleted account. Click the lock, log out, and back into the newly created account. Launch NetInfo Manager.app in /Applications/Utilities/, select Users->the new account, click on the lock, and change its user ID (UID) from 503 to 501, and save the changes. Mount the disk image in /Users/Deleted Users/ by double-clicking on it, double-click the mounted volume on the Desktop, create a new folder on your Desktop and name it RecoveredItems, and drag everything from the mounted disk image to the new folder. Then, slowly restore your stuff. When you have every thing back in place, unmount the image, and delete the /Deleted Users folder.

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Keychain Items Disappeared!?

I think this is the right place to post this, but if it isn't, please let me know.
About half of the items I had in my Keychain have disappeared, they were there a few days ago, and today they're gone - has anyone else had this problem?
Yesterday I cleaned out Safari cache and deleted cookies - it's the only thing different I can think of that I did - but doing this shouldn't affect Keychain, right?
I'm at a loss and hope someone has some insight.
Thanks.

Well - after several attempts (Backup has it's problems), I was able to restore my keychain items.
According to a tech guy at my local Apple store, keychain items that are associated with AutoFill may be the only ones affected when I do my Safari housecleaning, not so much the cookies but emptying the cache and resetting Safari.
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I use a 2012 Mac Pro now running Mavericks. I had about 50 password items in my Keychain.
Recently, the Internet Accounts pane of System Preferences presented me with a dialog box that put me into a Catch-22 dilemma. It said I can either keep my Keychain items on iCloud (I don't remember putting them there in the first place) or lose them all if I choose to keep them on only my local desktop computer.
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Why on earth would choosing to remove one's private data from iCloud come with the penalty of having them erased from one's local desktop computer?
Why is Apple so pushy (dictatorial?) about storing things on iCloud? I don't want my private data stored remotely. Why has it become so difficult to keep private data sequestered (comparatively) safely away on one's own desktop computer?
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Wow, it was right in front of my nose. That was the easiest!
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1) Is there a way to set the priority order of which account populates a form by default from the keychain?
2) When filling out credentials on iOS, an "autofill" button appears at the top of my keyboard, and I can begin typing in a field and it will show the autocomplete of the username that I am typing, but if I click autofill, it replaces it with the original credentials and not those of whatever I began typing in. If I click on the username it's autocompleting, it just clears the autocomplete. Is there some way to choose which username I'm autocompleting a form with?
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This sounds like the age old problem with keychain & Safari. I don't know of a way to solve it without using something like 1Password.
The iOS app has it's own built in browser, so it has more control over what gets autofilled. Safari on OS X has an 1Password extension that handles account selection & autofill etc.
Keychain is great in principle, but it quickly falls down when you need tight integration with many ID's & different use cases (work, home etc).
I'd suggest you submit feedback to Apple about your thoughts. I did so years ago about this issue & this is how far we have come (back to the point where me.com synced passwords) :^)
http://apple.com/feedback/macosx.html
Other tools like lastpass or keypassx may also help if you want to truly segregate password storage, but that doesn't fix autofill, the way around that issue is to dedicate one browser for work.

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ICloud Keychain passwords gone after erasing settings

Hello fellow Apple Community users.
fter erasing settings from my iPhone 6 with iOS 8.0.2 to solve this problem: Today summary in iOS 8 not working correctly
all my Wifi passwords from iCloud Keychain were gone on all my devices.
Next to my iPhone 6 I own an iPad mini retina (iOS 8.0.2), a MacBook Pro Retina (10.9.5) and a Mac mini (10.9.5). On all these devices all my Wifi passwords were gone.
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as strange as the title to this post might seem, here's the problem and the intended approach;
we have an ftp server with several dozen users - all clients to our company.
each client only has access to their own ftp account and files.
within our company we need to have access to all files from all users.
instead of giving root access to all of our employees, we're trying to juggle several dozen logins and passwords ...
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thanks michael
so what i've done now is to move all the ftp related keys to a new keychain called "ftp passwords" and it does, as you said, create a new file by that name.
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2. copy manually every ftp password to the other keychain
in both cases, i'm better off handing the cyberduck bookmarks file to the users with a text file from which to - manually - copy-paste the passwords without having to mess around in keychain access ...

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first aided keychain (nothing)
killed all the .mac keychain items (nothing)
tried to change the keychains password (rejected)
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cheers
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Babowa has offered a solution. The reason Apple is not supporting you unless you pay is because you opted to not get AppleCare which would have extended the warranty to 3 years and also provided 3 years of telephone support. Unfortunately you have to get AppleCare within the original 1 year warranty period, let it go beyond that and you are self insuring.
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