cloudd wants to use the "local item" keychain

Hey Kaliree.

I tried followingthe steps you instructed earlier, however my Macbook won't open the ICloud Pane.

Over the past week my Mac have stopped responding, when i try to open programs such as Safari, Icloud settings e.g.

I have discovered that the "Keychain pop-up window" controls which programs i can use. If the Icon of the given program is shown in the pop-up window, that specific program won't respond.

I have linked a picture example.

Regards

(In this example, my Terminal wouldn't respond)

This is impossible to do on the affected device because the message is in the middle of the screen and won't budge. The directions are also not specific enough for a user with my level of expertise. Please help!!!! i.e. Where do I find the iCloud preference pane? There are no preferences in the iCloud drive.

Preference Panes are the individual categories located in System Preferences on your Mac. You can access System Preferences by selecting the  menu in the upper left corner of your display and selecting "System Preferences" from the menu items that open.

Once in System Preferences, please select the preference pane titled "iCloud". From there, you should be able to follow Linc's directions to complete the process.

As you noted, you cannot close the window that appears in the center of the display, but you are able to drag the window out of the way so you can more easily view your display.

Please take each of the following steps that you haven't already tried, testing after each one. Back up all data before making any changes.

Step 1

Open the iCloud preference pane and uncheck the Keychain box. You'll be prompted to delete the local iCloud keychain. Confirm. Then re-check the box. Follow one of the procedures described in this support article to set up iCloud Keychain on an additional device.

Step 2

Triple-click 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 and paste into the box that opens by pressing command-V. You may not see what you pasted because a line break is included. Press return. A folder named "Keychains" should open. 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:

☞ Rename login.keychain to "login-old.keychain".

☞ Rename login_renamed_1.keychain to "login.keychain".

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 ▹ 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.

Quit Keychain Access.

Step 3

If you still have problems, uncheck the Keychain box again in the iCloud preference pane and continue.

Inside the Keychains folder that you opened in Step 2 is a subfolder with a long name similar to (but not the same as) this:

421DE5CA-D745-3AC1-91B0-CE5FC0ABA128

The above is only an example; yours will have a different name of the same general form. Drag the subfolder (not the Keychains folder) to the Trash.

Restart the computer, empty the Trash, and re-enable iCloud Keychain.

This helped me too Linc, thank you. Removing the sub-folder with the long name seems to have done a lot to get me my iMac back.

J.

Thanks a lot Linc. Deleting the subfolder has done the tric

Thank you very much, I used step no.3 🙂