At regular intervals a pop up window tells me
Keychain "login" cannot be found to store "Safari"
I am given two options - "Cancel" or "Reset to Default"
So far I have tried to operate by cancelling the window.
Should I reset? What happens with reset?
I am using an iMac running OS X El Capitan (10.11.5)
iMac, OS X El Capitan (10.11.5)
Your "login" keychain is apparently missing.
Resetting it will create a new keychain and any stored passwords will be lost--but, apparently, they are lost already.
Try opening Keychain Access and see if there is a "login" keychain in the list.
Barney,
Thanks for your help.
Unfortunately I still have issues.
I tried opening Keychain Access but the login would not open. It asked for a password which I do not have.
I then tried to reset the keychain but it also asked me for a keychain password.....
Is there anything else that you could suggest?
I think you would just have to delete the login keychain and create a new one.
You should set the password to your login password so that it auto-unlocks at login, but that is not required.
Barney,
As you may have guessed I am pretty much lost at the moment.
How do I delete the login keychain and create a new one? When I open the application "keychain access" the login tab is not a padlock it appears as square dotted outline. Nothing happens if I try to click on it.
I have never had a login password for the computer. When requested I just pressed return ( ie a blank password)
Is there any hope?
Use Go To Folder in Finder to go to this folder:
~/Library/Keychains
Look for a file called login.keychain and also login.keychain-db.
Move them to the Trash.
Launch Keychain Access and create a new login keychain. You can actually name it anything you like.
Set that new keychain as the default. (File menu with the new keychain selected in the list).
You also may want to change the settings on the keychain--disable lock after x minutes of inactivity and lock when sleeping.
Barney,
I managed to generate a new login keychain using your procedure with Keychain Access and the computer seems to be working okay.
I haven't deleted any of the old files is it still necessary?
I haven't deleted any of the old files is it still necessary?
No.
I imagine it would have only been necessary if you wanted to name it "login."
Great, thanks for your help.
Barney,
I thought everything was okay but I am now being plagued by messages such as;
AppleIDAuthAgent wants to use the "new" keychain and
com.apple.iCloudHelper.xpc wants to use the "new" keychain
Each time I enter the password and things work normally until a new message.
I also note that my Mail program forgets the password each time I log out.
Is there a fix? Are these two issues related?
Keychain "login" cannot found
