What does "Keychain Not Found" message mean?

Today when I restarted my MacBook Pro (El Capitan 10.11.6), I got this "Keychain Not Found" message right after login:

Keychain "login" cannot be found to store "com.apple.scopedbookmarksagent.xpc."

with buttons giving the option to cancel or "reset to defaults".

I can't recall ever getting a message like this, have no idea why I'm getting it, nor what it means/does or which option to pick. Does anyone know why I'm getting this? Am I getting hacked or virused? Thx!

MacBook Pro, OS X El Capitan (10.11.6), null

Posted on Jul 25, 2017 7:06 PM

16 replies

Jul 28, 2017 11:14 AM in response to Ralph-Johns-UK

hey there, ralph, a p.s. here about the keychain file (navigated to thru "GO" and then the "library" files)--i tried to "grab" the info so you could see it but evidently i'm unable to save documents again (argh!), so i'm just going to list the files because they just look wrong:

Keychains (Folder)

(Big long #s & letters here) (Folder)

keychain-2.db

keychain-2.db-shm

keychain-2.db-wal

stash.kb

user.kb

Microsoft_Intermediate_Certificates

???!?

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