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

It's not working for me. My Local Items Keychain is already locked and I cannot unlock. It keeps asking me for that password. Any idea? 😕

When you open Keychain Access (KeyChain app) application in order to get presented with the "reset" option you need to lock and unlock the "login" keychain. Highlight the "login" keychain under the keychains menu and click the lock to lock and then while you still have the "login" keychain selected click the lock to unlock. After you authenticate to the login keychain it will present you with a dialog to reset your "Local items or iCloud keychain".

Noup, I tried to do that before, tried once again. Dialog for reseting Local items keychain doesn't show up.

For those having issue with keychain asking for "Local Items" every time after upgrading to Mavericks, and not being able to unlock the keychain lock (asks again for the same unknown password)

Don't even try to repair (it will not work) or Reset my Default Keychain (it will ask for the password).

Fixes:

Did not try that yet but should work. Go to ~/Library/Keychain and move all files to the trash. Reboot your mac and keychain should give you a message of error, just click to create new keychain.

What i did and worked fine. Create a new user and log in with it. Go to~/Library/Keychain and copy all content to a USB Drive or even to /Users/Shared. Log back to your old user (that is getting those annoying keychain password messages) and copy all the content you just backed up to the keychain folder. Reboot and when you get the message, choose create new keychain.

All done 🙂

Did not try that yet but should work. Go to ~/Library/Keychain and move all files to the trash. Reboot your mac and keychain should give you a message of error, just click to create new keychain.

What i did and worked fine. Create a new user and log in with it. Go to~/Library/Keychain and copy all content to a USB Drive or even to /Users/Shared. Log back to your old user (that is getting those annoying keychain password messages) and copy all the content you just backed up to the keychain folder. Reboot and when you get the message, choose create new keychain.

This is bad advice. You don't want to delete everything in ~/Library/Keychains as that will remove everything from your keychain that you saved.

There is NO WAY to get any info on that keychain cause its locked by unknown password (there is a lot of users with this problem since mavericks upgrade)

And you can always get the items back on the trash (unusable cause you dont have the password)

Your login.keychain password is out of sync with the new iCloud keychain and needs to be re-sync'd.

The new iCloud keychain is either called "Local items" if you don't have syncing enabled or "iCloud" if you enabled iCloud keychain sync.

1. Open 'Keychain Access' Application
2. Select the 'login' keychain from the keychains list
3. Click the lock at the top to lock the login keychain
4. Click the lock again to unlock the login keychain
5. After entering your login keychain password you should be presented with a dialog:
6. Clicking the reset button will re-sync your login.keychain password with the iCloud keychain password.

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>

The issue everyone is having have nothing to do with icloud. People with the issue (that i posted the fix for) the lock appear as LOCKED and when you click it just shows to enter LOCAL ITEMS password, no way to reset or ANYTHING

Icloud is not even enabled on the machine of the user i helped a while ago...

The unlock lock issue is for people with icloud enabled and keychain out of sync, not the other way around

Same problem here.

I tried to reset it like a thousand times.

Local items is still locked, it was from the very beginning.

Hi Shellcode,

My MBP keeps freezing/resetting on step 4 as soon as i click in to the box where i would type my password.

Any help would be awesome

You might need follow the last resort steps. 1-6 at the bottom from terminal.

Sorry, every time i open the terminal i have the same reset.

Although it seems to freeze up as soon as i enter any text input screen (terminal, notes, password, etc)

Lol, even typing comments on the apple error report, Dang.

problem solved 😀

here is the way i do. Go to:

Application > utilities > keychain access > click to unclock all the keychain

if it asks for "local items" keychain: use ur internet's password
if it asks for "login" keychain: type ur passwork to login to the computer. If you dont set anything, just enter

really, just that simple and it works on me.