My Mac is asking for "login"keychain what is this

My max is asking for "login" keychain and I can't get it off and it's not letting my access other things without this keychain. I've entered my login password and that doesn't work

Back up all data.
Launch the Keychain Access application in any of the following ways:
☞ Enter the first few letters of its name into a Spotlight search. Select it in the results (it should be at the top.)
☞ In the Finder, select Go ▹ Utilities from the menu bar, or press the key combination shift-command-U. The application is in the folder that opens.
☞ Open LaunchPad. Click Utilities, then Keychain Access in the icon grid.
Select the login keychain from the list on the left side of the Keychain Access window. If your default keychain has a different name, select that.
If the lock icon in the top left corner of the window shows that the keychain is locked, click to unlock it. You'll be prompted for the keychain password, which is the same as your login password, unless you've changed it.
Right-click or control-click the login entry in the list. From the menu that pops up, select Change Settings for Keychain "login". In the sheet that opens, uncheck both boxes, if not already unchecked.
From the menu bar, select
Keychain Access ▹ Preferences ▹ First Aid
If the box marked Keep login keychain unlocked is not checked, check it.
Select
Keychain Access ▹ Keychain First Aid
from the menu bar and repair the keychain. Quit Keychain Access.

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I am a new Mc Bok Pro user and had been using my mac since Sept, 2012 with no problem. Just recently however, I have been experiencing a Keychain access problem. Specifically, whenever I open the mac, it asks for my keychain password... Can I restore my mac to its condition before Jan. 18, 2014? What should I do?
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This is only for Local Items key chain not Login Keychain.
“Local Items” keychain prompt?
Try this.
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There is a utility called Keychain Access. It is in your Applications/Utilities/ folder. Keychain Access has tools to do "first aid" and a reset on your keychain. Here are some Apple Support articles with instructions.
http://support.apple.com/kb/PH7296
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So I did the command + r and go to disk ulitiy and click on "Macintosh HD" and then click "New Image" and then select "My Passport for Mac" to save on there. I put "read/write" for Image Format AND For encrytion, i pick "128-bit AES encryption (recommended)"
I put in a password when prompted but after that it says "Disk Ultitiy wants to use the "login" keychain." I put in my ususally login password that I use to get on to my desktop but that doesn't work. I have the option to press ok or cancel. Can I just press cancel and will it contiune on backing my files to my external hard drive?
I pressed cancel and the progress bar to saving my macintosh HD to MY external hard drive portable isn't shown any blue bar progress for 9 mins now...
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If you like you can also restore, via Disk Utility, the DMG onto another disk, but you will be able to read the contents, simply mounting the volume inside any version of OS X.
^ What do you mean by this?
Also, It says on here:Mac OS X v10.5, v10.6: How to back up and restore your files - Apple Support
When the imaging process is complete, select the newly created disk image in the device pane. Then, choose Images > Scan Image for Restore... from the menu bar, and let the scan complete.
Quit Disk Utility (press Command-Q). Then press Command-Q to quit the Mac OS X installer; you will be prompted to restart.
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What does Images > Scan Image for Restore mean?
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So, every 30 minutes or so AddressBookSourceSync and iCal asks me for my login keychain password.
It is extermely annoying and I constantly have to type my login password.
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Message was edited by: nichols

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set the wake-on lan on the main computer
The laptop's too far away from the router to be connected by ethernet. It's all wifi.
No separate server app on the laptop, it's all samba
The files are on a windows laptop and a hard drive hooked up to the windows laptop. The windows share server is pants, so I'd need some sort of third party server running. Maybe you weren't suggesting to use Samba to connect to the windows share though?
I'm glad that you've all understood my ramblings and taken and interest, thanks The way I see it, I can't be the only netbook user these days looking for this kind of convenience, and I certainly won't be once chrome and moblin hit the market.
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I have not been so irritated in a long time, everytime i try to go online a small screen pops up and asks me for my "login" keychain password ... earlier today i had a problem going online so i called apple they helped me reset my password .... i had asked the lady what was a keychain she said dont worry bout it its nothing .... its obviously something if every 10 seconds i have to type it in ... the help menu on the mac tells me that pw for the keychain should be the same as my pw for my login ... well its not i keep getting it wrong ... now i cant unlock anything or download things because the pw is incorrect. I dont even know what to ask ... just tell me what to do about this please.

Keychain is an application that encrypts and stores passwords. When you login to your Mac the login password will unlock the other stored passwords so that you will Not have to type them all in every time. The reason it is asking for your password repeatedly is because the password that it has saved is incorrect.
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George

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I responded to your first post and assumed that you didn't have a computer. If I was wrong, I apologize for misreading your question.
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