Drag your backed up keychain(s) to ~/Library/Keychains/, replacing the other versions.Click the minus (-) button at the bottom of the window to delete the keychain.When the list appears, select the keychain you would like to replace with its backed up version - usually 'login'.From the 'Edit' menu select 'Keychain List'.Open Keychain Access (located in /Applications/Utilities).Once you've located the appropriate files, use the following steps to restore them on your current Mac OS X installation. ~/Library/Keychains/ Īs such, if you have created a full backup of your previous Mac OS X startup drive, you will be able to locate and restore these keychains.They are stored in the following directory: Mac OS X keychains can be recovered from full system backups fairly easily. How can I use the old keychain settings again? Is there a way to 'import' the passwords?' I made a backup of the content of the hard disk though. 'I had to re-install Mac OS X 10.4.x on my PowerBook completely fresh and could not keep the old system settings. MacFixIt reader Steffen Hofemann recently inquired: