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Npalamidis Author

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

Today I Updated my iMac from Mountain Lion to Mavericks.

After Installing the first boot went smooth but the mac after booting asked me to reboot again.

On the second Restart when the login window appeared also apeared a Password input window asking me to enter the password for several "LOCAL ITEMS" in the keychain but when I type my administrator password it won't work.

I hit the ESC key and the window appears several times asking for different password for several items that need access to "Local Items" in the keychain.

I tried opening the KeyChain and running the KeyChain firstaid but it didn't work.

Any help is greatly appreciated.

iMac, OS X Mavericks (10.9)

Posted on Oct 22, 2013 4:51 PM

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Npalamidis Author

Level 1

19 points

Posted on Oct 22, 2013 5:26 PM

I solved this issue by doing the following steps:

1.- Opening KeyChain app

2.- Locking the Keychain by clicking the lock on the top left corner.

3. -Unlocking the Keychain, as soon as I typed my Admin Passoword it asked me to "Reset my iCloud KeyChain" I clicked yes because I didn't have setup my icloud keychain yet.

4.- Restart computer.

After performing this steps the computer restarted flawlessly and without asking for the "Local Items" password.

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museken

Level 1

0 points

Apr 30, 2014 6:21 PM in response to roach2012joe

They have hack Apple and every cell phone is tht what you say?

mlagrand

Level 1

0 points

May 23, 2014 11:10 PM in response to Clif H

I have been effing around with this on and off for 5 months. Clif H, this finally worked for me. Thank you so much!!!

Jul 21, 2014 4:10 PM in response to Benyi90

I found this guy really useful for my problem:

http:// youtu.be/ K2Sf1ylAthA

copy and paste this link without spaces and good luck!

yaktp

Level 1

8 points

Aug 19, 2014 5:12 PM in response to Npalamidis

My Icloud helper keep asking for my keychain password. It is annoying

Best wishes,

Pat

Aug 20, 2014 5:02 AM in response to Npalamidis

I was having the same problems, after following those steps It was solved.

OS X Mavericks v10.9.1: Repeated prompts to unlock "Local Items" keychain

yaktp

Level 1

8 points

Aug 20, 2014 6:03 AM in response to Rafa Weiss

I followed the instructions and it said can not find folder.

Any help I would appreciate.

Best wishes,

Patrick

Oct 10, 2014 10:20 AM in response to shellcode

Thank you Shellcode, that was the only way to repair the Keychains on that corrupted profile. Make sure to have a backup of your keychains and reimport the ones you have the password for.

Oct 20, 2014 12:24 AM in response to Npalamidis

OS X: Keychain Access asks for keychain "login" after changing login password

Oct 29, 2014 7:58 PM in response to Clif H

SSo I'm a new Mac user (well I have had no problems with the iPhone ipad world-just the MBA)...and I am having this "local items" & keychain issue after a software update. I've done everything in the previous posts short of putting it away in the 3 day old box. when I try to creat a "new keychain" , make/verify password, I get the pop up box "warning your Mac is going to melt into a silver hot puddle in your lap".., well not really, it says "keychain access wants to use the local items keychain, please enter password" and I can't enter the new password since I deleted the old and forgotten one. I can't go further except to cancel and the supposedly created "login" is nonexistent When I try to make the new one default. Please help! (and it was so shiny new...)

Sep 18, 2015 10:51 AM in response to shellcode

This should be right at the top of the to-do list. Was trying to sort this issue for past 3 hours. The terminal suggestion worked like a breeze. Thanks man. You made my day.....🙂

sijo0703

Level 1

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Oct 18, 2015 9:09 PM in response to shellcode

Thanks! This helped me

Oct 25, 2015 6:28 AM in response to yasirali

Yasirali,

Thanks! Your procedure did it for me.

Kevin H.

Dec 1, 2015 11:10 AM in response to Npalamidis

This solves all my problem:

Open terminal
cd ~/Library/Keychains
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)
rm -rf 94ED610F-DD96-4ECF-A2BC-7D2F8651A464
Reboot
<when you log back in everything should be back to normal>

THANK YOU GUYS!!!

guul

Level 1

4 points

Jul 19, 2016 10:22 PM in response to shellcode

Thanks, it helps.

Jan 5, 2017 7:16 PM in response to Klaus Blume

this link doesn't work

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