Sync Problems with Chrome passwords and OSX keychain

Question

After synchronizing my Keychain with iCloud and a power outage, I started experiencing some issues with the chrome password synchronization. I know passwords are still there in the Google cloud but they are not being downloaded and used by form autocomplete even though is still enabled in the configuration.

I tried deleting my login keychain entry and restarting chrome but no luck. Is there a way to prevent Chrome from using the OSX system keychain as local password storage? I just need my passwords to be auto filled and synchronised with Google cloud.

OSX 10.10.5 Chrome 45.0.2454.101 (64-bit)

Answer 1

As of version 45, Chrome no longer uses the OSX Keychain manager. It may migrate passwords from Keychain into its own password manager.

You can go to chrome://version/ and find a path to the profile. In the directory there is a 'Preferences'. Find 'keychain_migration' preference. The value can be one of

// Migration wasn't tried yet.
NOT_STARTED = 0,

// Migration finished successfully.
MIGRATED = 1,

// Migration failed once. It should be tried again.
FAILED_ONCE = 2,

// Migration failed twice. It should not be tried again.
FAILED_TWICE = 3,

From 2 or 3 you can set it to 0 and restart the browser to try again.

Source: Comment 45

Answer 2

Just wanted to chime in and say that I had this same issue just now and could not figure out for the life of me how to fix it.

I did eventually fix the issue by removing the Chrome.app from my Applications folder, deleting the Google folder from ~/Library/Google, and removing the Google folder from ~/Library/Application Support/.

Once I did all of that, I restarted my computer.

Next I redownloaded Chrome using Safari. After reinstalling Chrome and signing in, everything synced (including the passwords).