Q: Calendar App keeps asking for my Yahoo password
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Feb 12, 2014 8:18 PMby Linc Davis,Back up all data.
Launch the Keychain Access application in any of the following ways:
☞ Enter the first few letters of its name into a Spotlight search. Select it in the results (it should be at the top.)
☞ In the Finder, select Go ▹ Utilities from the menu bar, or press the key combination shift-command-U. The application is in the folder that opens.
☞ Open LaunchPad. Click Utilities, then Keychain Access in the icon grid.
Select the login keychain from the list on the left side of the Keychain Access window. If your default keychain has a different name, select that.
If the lock icon in the top left corner of the window shows that the keychain is locked, click to unlock it. You'll be prompted for the keychain password, which is the same as your login password, unless you've changed it.
Right-click or control-click the login entry in the list. From the menu that pops up, select Change Settings for Keychain "login". In the sheet that opens, uncheck both boxes, if not already unchecked.
From the menu bar, select
Keychain Access ▹ Preferences ▹ First Aid
If the box marked Keep login keychain unlocked is not checked, check it.
Select
Keychain Access ▹ Keychain First Aid
from the menu bar and repair the keychain. Quit Keychain Access.
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Feb 12, 2014 9:33 PMby sinoue,Do you have 2 step verification turned on in Yahoo? Use the web browser to access and verify your 2 step authentication. You can temporarily turn it off to see if this is the problem. I think Yahoo has a SMS or secret question challenge you can use to authorize. Worst case goto System Preferences > Accounts and delete Yahoo. Resart. Go back and re-add it. Hope that helps.
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Feb 12, 2014 11:11 PMby blackxacto,On my iMac & iPad I sync Mail, Contacts, Calendars, Reminders with all mail accounts(including Yahoo).
I do not sync Notes, as I want them to remain on the iPad.
On my iMac & iPad I sync w iCloud, except Notes and iCloud Mail.
I don't see a need for another email account at iCloud.
Maybe I am wrong about that, but why have an iCloud Mail account and all the others as well?
As of now, I created a calendar incident on my iPad, my iMac immediately copied it through iCloud syncing. So it all works.
But on the iMac if I start up Calendar, I will be asked for a Yahoo password, of which it never accepts.
Why?
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Feb 13, 2014 8:03 AMby Linc Davis,Please post a screenshot that shows the problem. Be careful not to include any private information.
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Mar 12, 2014 9:14 AMby thatuncutraw,Did you ever figure out a solution to your problem? I am also having the same exact problem as you on my late-2013 Macbook Pro Retina. Every time I pull up the Calendar app, I get the "Calendar can't connect to the Yahoo! account 'Yahoo'". I enter my password and it seems to accept it, then almost instantaneously the same "Can't connect" pop-up reappears. I just cancel out of it, but I would really like to find a solution so this doesn't happen anymore. Any help would be greatly appreciated!
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Mar 12, 2014 9:41 AMby blackxacto,I can't remember all I have done but it is working now. I had to delete passwords in Safari Preferences plus delete yahoo passwords in the iCloud Keychain. Then make new passwords for yahoo and yahoo mail accounts. Then store the new passwords in the iCloud.
I did all this on my iMac. So I had to update the iPad Air mail accounts as well. But I can't remember all the process. The main issue was the Safari/Pref/Password deletion and recreation and storage in the iCloud Keychain
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Jun 6, 2014 12:59 AMby wirker,Go to settings/ mail- contacts and calendars / yahoo or whatever email you use, slide calendar off.
It will not turn off calanders, just in yahoo. If you get reminders in your email then leave it on and you'll have to enter your password to make calendars.
I went down and turned off reminders too because I do not get calendar reminders in my email.
