[X-Newbies] How to unlock keychain that has never been locked?

[Mark Des Cotes]

Have you tried your administrator's password? If you never set one up  
it might be possible that there's no password. Try leaving the field  
blank and clicking 'OK'.

Mark

On 1-Aug-08, at 1:46 AM, Christopher Collins wrote:

> I think it relates to the password on your username that you use to  
> login to your Mac.
>
> As in your Administrative password.
>
> cjc
>
>
> On 01/08/2008, at 2:32 PM, J wrote:
>
>> Key Chain - driving me nuts.
>>
>> I have never 'locked' my key chain but I always check the box that  
>> asks me to remember passwords in it, for all my FTP stuff especially.
>>
>> Once in a while I have to go in and see a password I have  
>> forgotten. Press 'i' and 'show password' and bingo there it is.
>>
>>
>> Suddenly it is now asking me for a password to do this, when I  
>> have never 'locked' my keychain!
>>
>> What password does it want? This is making me crazy. I have never  
>> locked it. How do I 'unlock' it?
>>
>>
>> On Jul 1, 2008, at 1:21 AM, Randy B. Singer wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> On Jun 30, 2008, at 5:11 PM, Pat Kane wrote:
>>>
>>>> I've been using my imac (2.4 GHZ, 4GB memory, 10.5.1) since Jan.2 .
>>>> Around the middle of February, I installed Adobe CS3. I also had  
>>>> Painter X installed and about 300 photos in iphoto. In short, I  
>>>> didn't have too much on my new imac.
>>>> So, middle of February, there's a prompt from Software Update,  
>>>> and I say "ok." My imac then tells me there's not enough room on  
>>>> my 750 GIG hard drive for the update.
>>>> Do I make an appointment with the Genius Bar, or can I solve  
>>>> this on my own? I have no idea what has clogged up my imac, but  
>>>> it's telling me I now have less than 3GIG of disk space  
>>>> available. I must admit I've been putting this off because I  
>>>> love my imac, but ... I really would like to have things as they  
>>>> should be.
>>>> Anyone ever run into this?
>>>
>>> Usually I only hear from someone with this problem two or three  
>>> times a year, but for some reason this is the third time this  
>>> month that I've heard from someone with this problem.
>>>
>>> Your Mac has filled up with something invisible that is out of  
>>> control, so logically it must be either a log, a cache, or an  
>>> index file.
>>>
>>> Generally it is one of the first two, but I've seen it also be a  
>>> corrupted Spotlight database.
>>>
>>> So lets start with the most likely culprits.
>>>
>>> The first thing to try is simply restarting your Mac.  If that  
>>> doesn't help...
>>>
>>> Run Cache Out X to clear caches, and then MacJanitor to clear  
>>> your log files:
>>>
>>> Cache Out X  (Free)
>>> http://www.trilateralsystems.com/CacheOutX/
>>>
>>> MacJanitor (Free)
>>> http://personalpages.tds.net/~brian_hill/macjanitor.html
>>>
>>> If these don't work, let me know, and I'll tell you how to delete  
>>> your Spotlight database and have it rebuild itself.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> ___________________________________________
>>> Randy B. Singer
>>> Co-author of The Macintosh Bible (4th, 5th, and 6th editions)
>>>
>>> Macintosh OS X Routine Maintenance
>>> http://www.macattorney.com/ts.html
>>> ___________________________________________
>>>
>>>
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