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Q: My keychain password won't work and my laptop won't let me unlock the lock in keychain access preferences. Help?

My keychain password won't work and my laptop won't let me unlock the lock in keychain access preferences. Help? The keychain access password request has hijacked my computer. i cannot find a way to solve this issue anywhere on this site. Please help?

iWeb '08, Working on a 2011 MacBook Air

Posted on May 11, 2015 4:45 AM

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Q: My keychain password won't work and my laptop won't let me unlock the lock in keychain access preferences. Help?

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  • by Eric Root,

    Eric Root Eric Root May 11, 2015 9:32 AM in response to lacanette
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    May 11, 2015 9:32 AM in response to lacanette

    Are you using your user password?

  • by lacanette,

    lacanette lacanette May 11, 2015 9:39 AM in response to Eric Root
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    May 11, 2015 9:39 AM in response to Eric Root

    Yes. I went through 49 possible passwords before I discovered the keychain password. What a nightmare. The problem is that when I must change the login password every 6 months to my computer (a university laptop), the keychain didn't change passwords, too. So I was absolutely stuck hunting through old passwords from my university. Even though the box was checked to synch passwords, the keychain was never synched to my other password.