Transferring iMac Keychains to MBPro

I lost/deleted MBPro Keychains and would like to put my iMac Keychains (Snow Leopard( on the MBPro (Mountain Lion)
I would appreciate your suggestions and help.
I tried to copy and paste the Keychains in a burn folder but I was not able to do it. Then I tried to drag i'Mac Keychains onto a flash drive but I wasn't able to do it,
How can I put my iMAc Keychains on my MBPro?
Thanks for your help.
Vernon

Put the MBP into target disk mode, hook it up to the iMac, and just drag and drop the login.keychain from the stupidly hidden user's /Library/Keychains/ to the same place on the MBP. Unhook the MBP and restart the MBP normally and those should be available for use there.

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Message was edited by: spiralgirl

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Creating an account in System Preferences isn't the same as just putting a home folder into /Users/. The account needs to be created first.
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Contextual Menu Items
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Apple Guide to Universal Applications
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MacInTouch List of Rosetta Compatible Applications
MacUpdate List of Intel-Compatible Software
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