Keychain Lockout

Keychain lost all my passwords. I opened Keychain it was empty. Keychain First Aid encountered unexpected errors because "login.keychain does not exist". I tried creating a New Keychain. This failed. I could not even unlock keychain. Keychain had effectively dumped ALL my passwords and broken it's own lock!
My solution: Drag a copy of 'login.keychain' from a recent HD clone and drop it the Keychain library. Problem solved.
My question: Why does my system suddenly zap my keychain login?
G4 Mac OS X (10.4.8) 1.2GHz 1.25GB ram 60GB hd

Hi,
My guess is that is not what actually happened.
I suspicion that the normal unix permission for the .keychain document became changed so that Keychain.app could was not allowed to access the contents. This would account for both the problems you describe.
Keychain will display what appears to be be an empty keychain.
If you give yourself authority to the .keychain doc you will resolve the issue.
This is what I suspicion.
Somewhat rare; a document such as .keychain's authority permissions do become "out of balance" so to speak, but I've not heard of keychain.app itself legitimately corrupting a .keychain.
Just to be clear, I am proposing that the normal unix permissions on your .keychain document became something that they shouldn't or that even a folder at a higher level in the path lost it's execute bit. Not that your .keychain document became corrupt or had a password change.
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