Mavericks Keychain keeps asking to unlock "Local Items" after install

This worked for me when none of the other approaches did. Thanks Shellcode!

it worked for me , thnx a lot.........

I also upgraded to Marvick yesterday

Only the first two steps worked. The unlock option freezes the keychain access window. What is the answer to this problem? Thanks

Just a simple restart worked for me...😁

Was my first restart after installing Mavericks, so maybe this is all about that issue.

Thank you, this fixed it:

If everything from the above fails for whatever reason the last resort you can do the following:

1. Open terminal
2. cd ~/Library/Keychains
3. ls
   1. When you 'ls' here you will see a folder that contains a bunch of random number liks so:
   2. 94ED610F-DD96-4ECF-A2BC-7D2F8651A464 (this number is unique on each system)
4. rm -rf 94ED610F-DD96-4ECF-A2BC-7D2F8651A464
5. Reboot
6. <when you log back in everything should be back to normal>

Your terminal solution was very easy and worked immediatly with little effort. Thanks for the solution and your post!🙂🙂🙂

My solution to the "Local Items" Keychain Access password request for ____ accounts.

1. Open Finder

2. Click Go on Menu Bar

3. Click "Go To Folder"

4. Search ~/Libary/Keychains

5. Move the blue folder labeled 00000000-0000-0000-000000000000 to your desktop (or whatever it might be on your computer, different letters and numbers for each computer)

6. Restart your computer

7. Move the folder from your desktop to trash and delete

8. To check that this solved your problem, go to Finder --> Go (menu bar) --> Utilities --> Keychain Access... now your Local Items folder should be unlocked

This worked for me hopefully it works for you too!

This worked for me. Mail didn't like it, and I had to change a password on my mail server, but all else was fine.

This whole keychain thing has been a pain in the $#%@$%@Q ... just ewnt to ~/Library/Keychains ... Deleted everything ... have to now reset all of them ... hope I don't see this problem again on the next reboot .... effing Mavericks has been nothing but a big **** headache so far.

I can confirm this is a solution.

Thanks for your input.

Worked fine for me!

Thanks a lot 🙂

Thanks. This did the thing.

This got me out of a deadlock as I could not log in in Icloud anymore as I was constantly presented with the question to log in to the 'local keychain'.

It's all solved now.

The irony here is that deleting keychains OR moving keychains to the desktop OR rm -R ~/Library/Keychains/random-number are all doing the same thing - forcing the reset of either the login keychain or Local Items, depending on what you are actually deleting/moving/resetting. Shellcode, Pacote-sans, Mario Meraz, srons: you guys are all pretty much finding different ways of doing the same thing.

Local Items is what is created in Mavericks when iCloud Keychain is *not* enabled. See the following threads as well, which echo what several of you here are saying about deleting that long-numerical-keychain item:

http://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/107041/new-local-items-keychain-in-mave ricks-whats-it-all-about

https://jamfnation.jamfsoftware.com/discussion.html?id=9000

This just happened to me today after a Mavericks update- Shellcode's fix worked! Thank you.

Had Mavericks for about a month now with no problems, then out of nowhere this pops up. Was even completely freezing up when I tried to do anything. Terminal fix worked right away, thanks shellcode!