Keychain reset does not work

I had the exact same problem and my login.keychain had disappeared completely.

After more than an hour talking with Apple Tech Support and being 'escalated' to a senior advisor the problem was fixed (as you said) by just deleting the folder with the random numbers in /library/keychains , then rebooting and creating a new keychain when asked to. - That was just 30 mins ago but all well so far!!

Shellcode,

I'm having issues with KEYCHAIN RESET. I have execute the first two Terminal Command Line steps, only instead of getting a single line of Random#s,

I get this

A55E201B-B1B3-5C9D-86F7-D95B9ADE8001 login.keychain

F266EB61-CB62-4B9D-858B-F8DA9B1E2B9A login_renamed.keychain

So my Question is which line do I execute the

rm -rf command on? Or do I execute the Command on both Login Lines?

I am running OS X YOSEMITE 10.10.5 Any Assistance You could provide would be appreciated. Thank You.

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 🙂

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>

Thank you, this solution works ok!

My father just had this problem. His default keychain was not named "login." Somehow, Mavericks(/Mail.app?) created a keychain called "login" and kept prompting him for the password for the login keychain. Of course, he doesn't know the password. The solution for him was to change the name of his default keychain to login. I brain-dumped my interaction with him here, someone might find it useful: http://blog.gregfiumara.com/archives/229

Nice work Apple.

Thanks! This "reset" solution worked perfectly.

Thank you for sharing this!

This solved the problem, but I don't yet know if I've actually lost access to "synced items" as the message box warns about.

After many convoluted attempts to right this wrong, I was able to rid the desktop of the dreaded password for local-items text box. I followed the instructions, but usually neglected a step and so kept getting deeper in the hold. For example, in Keychain Access, I clicked the lock only once before rebooting. That gave me a login prompt when it rebooted. Then it gave me a dialog box similar to #5 above but with a warning that something would permanently discontinue access to iCloud items. I don't like the word "permanently" so I tried another tact. The command line prompt and unix was the ultimate solution. However, at some point I deleted my passwords that were in the login-items. So it goes. At the very least I should be able to reconstruct these.

Maverick for sure. I think Apple went rouge on this upgrade.

I have the same issues, all I can get is the pop up box asking for a local keychain password, yet I have never entered a password......

.... Now I can't get the pop up box to disappear, and I've tried all of the above, including turning off and back on again..

Please help! I thought Mac's where easier and more simple than PC's - not a good experience :-(