Q: The following messages keeps on popping up on my screen: keychain "login" cannot be found to store "200291982". Even after closing ... The following messages keeps on popping up on my screen: keychain "login" cannot be found to store "200291982". Even after closing the Reset to Defaults option the system does not respond and keeps bouncing me back to this error message. more
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Sep 17, 2015 12:42 AM in response to ngantchevby lllaass,Try:
OS X: Keychain Access asks for keychain "login" after changing login password - Apple Support
You may have to reset the keychain
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Sep 17, 2015 7:50 AM in response to lllaassby Grant Bennet-Alder,Any time you asked your Mac to remember a password, such as the password for your email, it is stored in keychain. You can not "break into" the keychain and extract the passwords -- they are strongly encrypted using your old login password as the key.
If you have to "Reset your keychain", all the old passwords in it will be dead to you, and you will have to derive them one by one and get the new keychain to remember them.
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Sep 17, 2015 12:17 PM in response to ngantchevby Linc Davis,If you've just changed your login password in Recovery mode, follow these instructions. Otherwise, see below.
At some point, you may have reset your keychain to default in Keychain Access. That action would have caused your login keychain to be renamed.
Back up all data before proceeding.
In Keychain Access, delete the login keychain from the keychain list. Choose Delete References when prompted, not Delete References & Files.
Triple-click anywhere in the line below on this page to select it, then copy the text to the Clipboard by pressing the key combination command-C:
~/Library/Keychains
In the Finder, select
Go ▹ Go to Folder...
from the menu bar, paste into the box that opens (command-V), and press return. A folder will open. Rename the file "login.keychain" in that folder to something like "login-old.keychain". Rename the file "login_renamed_1.keychain" to "login.keychain". You can then close the folder.
Back in Keychain Access, select
File ▹ 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 you 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.