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Mavericks asks me, after connecting to my session, a password for the keychain "Local elements"

Hello everyone.


I have installed Mavericks and everything went well.

I rebooted it this morning normally.


After connecting to my session (works well so far), Mavericks asks me the password of the keychain "Local elements".

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It asks me this for "Messages", "CalendarAgent", "accountsd", "AddressBookSourceSync", "com.apple.iCloudHelper.xpc", and "Keychain Agent".

I have absolutely no idea about this password and clicking on cancel doesn't change anything. Passwords keep being asked repeatedly.


Please tell me someone has an idea.

Many thanks.

MacBook Pro (15-inch Early 2011), OS X Mavericks (10.9)

Posted on Oct 23, 2013 11:49 AM

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Posted on Oct 24, 2013 5:20 AM

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Same issue here!

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Oct 24, 2013 6:04 AM in response to cyberpen

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 🙂

Oct 24, 2013 10:47 AM in response to cyberpen

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 keychainUser uploaded file
  5. After entering your login keychain password you should be presented with a dialog:User uploaded file
  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>

Mavericks asks me, after connecting to my session, a password for the keychain "Local elements"

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