keychain access won't open
when i click on it nothing happened
am using mavericks 10.9.5
MacBook Pro, OS X Mavericks (10.9.5)
Have you tried double clicking the Keychain Access app in the Applications folder?
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yeah, does the same (opens and closes real quick)
Do a backup.
Quit the application.
Go to Finder and select your user/home folder. With that Finder window as the front window, either select Finder/View/Show View options or go command - J. When the View options opens, check ’Show Library Folder’. That should make your user library folder visible in your user/home folder. Select Library. Then go to Preferences/com.apple.keychainaccess.plist. Move the .plist to your desktop.
Restart the computer, open the application and test. If it works okay, delete the plist from the desktop.
If the application is the same, return the .plist to where you got it from, overwriting the newer one.
Thanks to leonie for some information contained in this.
i didn't need to make it visible because it's already is, but when i took out com.apple.keychainaccess.plist.lockfile it didn't create a new one am not sure if this the what you meant, there was no other file than this
Macintosh HD/Users/<name of user>/Library/Prefrences/com.apple.keychainaccess.plist.lockfile
Did you restart? That should generate a new .plist.
yeah i did, i tried twice it didn't generate a new .plist but it's not .plist it's .plist.lockfile (com.apple.keychainaccess.plist.lockfile)
when i move it it doesn't ask me for my password. everything in there doesn't ask me for my password
didn't open
i tried with moving .plist and without moving it
Do a backup, using either Time Machine or a cloning program, to ensure files/data can be recovered. Two backups are better than one.
Try setting up another admin user account to see if the same problem continues. If Back-to-My Mac is selected in System Preferences, the Guest account will not work. The intent is to see if it is specific to one account or a system wide problem. This account can be deleted later.
i created a new admin account and standard account both didn't work keychain access there
Try running the combo update.
If that doesn't work:
Do a backup, preferable 2 separate ones on 2 drives. Boot to the Recovery Volume (command - R on a restart or hold down the option/alt key during a restart and select Recovery Volume). Run Disk Utility Verify/Repair and Repair Permissions until you get no errors. Then re-install the Os.
i tried installing the combo update but it says it doesn't meet the system requirements and the requirements is just to have 10.9. my mac is originally Lion, is that why it doesn't meet the requirements? /:
when you say re-install OS do you mean from the backup or new copy of mavericks?
when you say re-install OS do you mean from the backup or new copy of mavericks?
I'd install a new copy.
and then restore from backup...?
i fixed it by using Pacifist
i got the Mavericks installer disk image then i opened Pacifist and selected Mavericks installer disk image then it showed me the essential files & apps and just extracted it and replaced it
keychain access won't open