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Youve undoubtedly noticed that youre not routinely nagged for a password when you use your Macs email client, nor do you have to enter passwords for many of the networks you use.

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And the reason is because those passwords are stored by the Mac OS in keychainsprotected repositories for this kind of data.

In this video I show you how to use Keychain Access to recover passwords you can no longer recall.

In addition, I demonstrate how to repair a corrupt keychain, which can lead to websites not opening as you expect and constant calls for you to enter email passwords.

In the video I incorrectly state that the keychain is tied to your administrators account.

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Hi, Im Macworld senior editor, Chris Breen here with your Macworld weekly video tip.

Today were going to look at Keychain Access and what you can do with it and it can do for you.

Keychain Access is, among other things, the place where the Mac OS stores things like network, email, and some Web passwords.

If you forget one of these passwords, you can sometimes recover it within Keychain Access.

Keychain Access can be found in the Utilities folder within your Applications folder.

To quickly call it up, just press Command-Space, type Keychain in Spotlights Search field, and press the Return key.

In the resulting Keychain Access window youll see the Keychains entry along the left side of the window and the entries that belong to the selected keychain on the right.

Unless youve changed Keychain Access behavior, youll find the vast majority of your entires in the Login keychain.

To recover a password, just locate the keychain entry associated with that passwordin this case well use a Gmail accountand double-click on it.

Youll then be prompted for the password associated with your administrators account.

Click on the Access Control tab and youll see any applications that automatically use the password without requiring that you enter it.

When you next use that application or access the affected network device or website, youll be prompted to enter your password and choose to allow it once or always allow.

Note that this Login keychain is very specifically tied to your login password.

Another useful thing to do with Keychain Access is to check your keychains health.

If you find that you can no longer automatically log into websites that you previously could or youre constantly hectored for an email accounts password, your keychain may be corrupt.

To check it, select Keychain First Aid from the Keychain menu.

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