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KeyChain ... slow and restrictive?
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KeyChain ... slow and restrictive?


  • Subject: KeyChain ... slow and restrictive?
  • From: David Crowe <email@hidden>
  • Date: Tue, 14 Dec 2004 20:14:58 -0700

Title: KeyChain ... slow and restrictive?
Has anybody had any success with scripting the keychain. Often I forget exactly the name of the keychain (and more and more websites seem to deliberately change their field names or otherwise prevent the keychain from recognizing a user name/password entry) so it would be nice to have a hot key that would prompt for a string and then find any keychain entries containing it.

However, this is what I've found (on my 800 MHz TiBook):
  • (For a single keychain) "every key" takes about 55 seconds to complete.
  • Not surprisingly, a repeat loop takes about double the time (but you'd have to search only half the keys on average, so it would probably work out to be about the same thing).
  • "every key whose name contains..." simply doesn't work (generates an error)
  • "every key whose name = ..." works, but takes longer to execute than grabbing the entire set at once!

I guess if I had dual 2GHz processors I might be able to get this time down to about 10 seconds, but it still wouldn't be good enough.

Has anyone found any tricks to make this acceptably fast?

- David Crowe
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