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

[J]

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.
>
>
>
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