Keep iCloud keychain unlocked?

I'm afraid it didn't work for me - I recently upgraded the failing HDD on my mid-2012 MBP to a Crucial 512 Gb SSD. At the same time, I upgraded the RAM to 16 Gb.

Before installing the hardware, I cloned the old HDD using Carbon Copy Cloner and also did a Time Machine Backup. After this the old HDD completely failed and would not boot up.

After installing the SSD and RAM, I installed OS Mountain Lion from Internet Recovery and then upgraded this to OS Sierra, as the MBP had been running before the HDD failed.

Since installing Sierra, I have been receiving constant popups as you described above, usually 3 or 4 at a time (see picture). These are making the MBP almost unusable - None of my usual passwords seem to work and this seems to be preventing me from using Migration Assistant to reinstall my info.

My previous travails are detailed in this thread: Re: How do I schedule Time Machine Backups?

hello Ron,

Thanks for the input. For my particular situation - 2008 macbook and yosemite - I found an answer from the group which says to open the keychain and right click "Login" in the left column and tick as shown in this screen shot:

...open "Change Settings for Keychain login", and untick all if they are...:

The problem of course is that being a laptop the keychain is always open as well as long as you are loved in...?

The other way to do it is to open the "Keychain repair" and start it, which I found did the same thing.

I'll see if this works

All the best.

Richard

Hello again Herbert_Treefrog,

If you have installed a new hard drive, you need to restore from backup before you can use your account. Boot from your recovery volume and erase the hard drive. Then reinstall the operating system. As part of the installation process, it will ask if you want to restore from backup. Say yes.

Ron, you are a legend for solving this one.... I have been struggling with this for months and followed your process and has indeed solved the problem. I will also state that I am using a 3rd part app for lock/unlock with iPhone that may have caused the issue (perhaps???)... after rebuilds, keychain resets this seems to work for me. Nice one.

NB.

BTW: the 3rd party app that I have been using for lock/unlock with iPhone incase anyone else has this issue is "Near Lock" which is a great app and no negativity towards this app but feel this is when all of the issue started. Hope this helps someone.

See if this would help -- Safari wants to use the “Local Items” keychain.

you may have to make a new keychain:

If your Mac keeps asking for the login keychain password - Apple Support

Lex

RonEdwards wrote:

OK, finally worked this out, hope it helps someone else with the same issue.

It did. Thank you very much!

great, it works !

thanks.

in these fields type in the password of the Keychain, most of the time the same as you use to login into your account. then allow these apps to always have access to the Keychain.

Sorry - should have made this clearer - As I said in my post, none of my usual passwords work.