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I DO NOT know my Local Items Keychain password.

My "Local Items" KeyChain got set up when I downloaded Mavericks. I can't do anything now on my MacBook Pro. HELP. Apple, this feature STINKS. PLEASE fix it. I do not have a KeyChain called, Login. I only have, "Local Items, System, and System roots. I can't do ANYTHING on my MacBook now. As soon as i boot it up, it repeatly asks for the Local Items password. Once again, I DO NOT have a Keychain called Login. I have tried every password I can think of, Apple set it up and it really made me frustrated. VERY disapointed in Apple...

OS X Mavericks (10.9)

Posted on Nov 3, 2013 7:35 PM

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William Lloyd

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Posted on Nov 3, 2013 7:41 PM

Do you have a backup from before you updated to Mavericks? It would be in your ~/Library/Keychains folder.

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Feb 27, 2014 12:26 PM in response to Tlix

Thank you so much for excellent advice. Simple, and to the point and it worked straight away after wading through untold posts and getting nowhere. Excellent post

Oct 25, 2015 7:28 AM in response to mdmcholet

Deleting the weird, alpha-numeric folder was exactly what I needed to awaken from my keychain Catch 22 nightmare loop and begin to actually control my brand new, late 2015 iMac 21.5" machine.

Thank you so much!

JonnyQuest58

Dec 8, 2015 10:40 AM in response to Tlix

Thank you! I found an earlier thread that said to run first aid in the keychains app and it didn't work. This did the trick. That was painful.

Edit: Mid 2011 MBA

Jan 9, 2016 10:36 AM in response to ACarmany

how did you fix it? it won't let me delete, says in use. this is on my daughter's new user profile

Nov 16, 2016 9:35 PM in response to Tlix

This worked. Phew! **** near gnawed my arm off trying to figure it out!

I DO NOT know my Local Items Keychain password.