My computer won't accept any passwords I put into these keychain pop ups. So they constantly pop up and wont go away even if you click cancel 6 or 7 times. Can someone help me to turn them off?!
MacBook Pro, iOS 7.1.1
Here is how delete keychain info:
Restart the mac.
Voila, you are done.
Here is how delete keychain info:
Restart the mac.
Voila, you are done.
Only first folder Alfa numeric is to be deleted , deleting metadataKeychain-db into the trash , deletes important files and system starts malfunctioning once again , as experienced and has to install operating system once again .
The pop - up goes away , also you have to configure web mail account and I cloud account , if user is using Air - port express , we have to enter base station password once again , as all passwords saved in Alfa - numeric folder are emptied .
If keychain is prompting to enter password multiple times , & pop - up is not going away when safari is opened .
In user library click on go to go folder & type ~/Library then find a folder > keychains > remove first folder ( alfa numeric folder ) to trash . Restart & empty the trash , go to internet accounts & once again configure web mail account , I cloud mail account by entering their passwords .
Open air port utility via spotlight > enter your base station password .
Hi drkobra,
This looks really helpful, I just have one concern, will I loose all of my passwords saved in my keychain if I do this? Because it is not worth the passwords to have just two pop ups. Also, do you think it has something to do with the latest update? Mine only started when I updated to High Seirra.
I don't see "Keychain First Aid" under the Keychain Access menu. 😟 I'm running macOS Sierra version 10.12.2
Follow the directions in this support article.
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 iCloud 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.
Select
Keychain Access â–¹ Keychain First Aid
from the menu bar and repair the keychain.
Open the Keychains folder as in Step 1. There should be a file in that folder with the name "login.keychain". If there is also a file iwith the name "login_renamed_1.keychain", then please do as follows:
You can then close the folder.
Delete the login keychain from the keychain list in Keychain Access. Choose Delete References when prompted, not Delete References & Files.
Select
File â–¹ Add Keychain...
from the menu bar. Add back the file now named "login.keychain". If any of your needed keychain items are missing from it, also add back the file now named "login-old.keychain". I suggest you transfer any needed items from that keychain to the login keychain, then delete it. The transfers are made by drag-and-drop in Keychain Access. You'll need to enter your password for each item transferred.
Run Keychain First Aid again. Quit Keychain Access.
Linc, thank you so much. This has been driving me nuts for weeks. Step 1 worked like a charm.
How do I turn keychain off on my iPhone. this is so annoying. I have gone into the settings tab and turned off. As soon as I leave the page, it automatically turns itself back on again.
Many thanks!
Linc: Just wanted to say: you are a wizard :-) Took me most of the steps but thank you for taking the time to write this up. Wonderfully helpful
Hi Davis,
The link provided in step 1 no longer works a year later, where can I find it?
I had been trying to fix this issue for months on my mac. I just spoke to an apple rep and he helped me resolve this in less than a minute. Here is how:
After resetting icloud keychain setting - enable/disable ...doing keychain repair, this helped me!!!
I only had to log back into icloud one more time after reboot. Thanks DRKOBRA!
This did not work for me. For each of the items under keychain, I got, "...cannot be modified or deleted...."
Very helpful
THANK YOU!!! Finally, this was the one thing that worked, and once I got rid of the keychain pop-ups, Facetime stopped giving me an error message every time I tried to sign on!
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