System Preferences/iCloud vaporized my Keychain items

I use a 2012 Mac Pro now running Mavericks.  I had about 50 password items in my Keychain.
Recently, the Internet Accounts pane of System Preferences presented me with a dialog box that put me into a Catch-22 dilemma.  It said I can either keep my Keychain items on iCloud (I don't remember putting them there in the first place) or lose them all if I choose to keep them on only my local desktop computer.
Now all my Keychain password items are gone. 
Why on earth would choosing to remove one's private data from iCloud come with the penalty of having them erased from one's local desktop computer?
Why is Apple so pushy (dictatorial?) about storing things on iCloud?  I don't want my private data stored remotely.  Why has it become so difficult to keep private data sequestered (comparatively) safely away on one's own desktop computer? 
Please advise.

Wow, it was right in front of my nose. That was the easiest!
thanks

Similar Messages

  • Hi I do not want iTunes to open up automatically when I turn on my macbook pro.  I tried going to System Preferences Users and Groups Login Items and then I took iTunes off the list but it still opens up automatically when I turn on my laptop.

    Hi I do not want iTunes to open up automatically when I turn on my macbook pro.  I tried going to System Preferences>Users and Groups>Login Items and then I took iTunes off the list but it still opens up automatically when I turn on my laptop. What should I do?

    Hi r,
    Make sure you close iTunes before shutdown.  And you're quite welcome.

  • I am trying to stop programs from opening automatically when I turn my computer on.  I tried system preferences users and groups login items...then I deleted them from the list but it did nothing.

    I am trying to stop programs from opening automatically when I turn my computer on.  I tried system preferences>users and groups>login items...then I deleted them itunes and emial from the list but it did nothing.  They continue to open up every time I turn on my Macbook Pro.

    Hi r,
    It sounds like you're running Lion?
    Have you tried running Verify and/or Repair Disk?
    Have you tried running Repair Permissions?
    Do you have at least 15% free space available on your HD?

  • TS4006 my iCal in my new MacBook Air doesn't sync with the iCal data in my iPad despite having it "checked" (ON) in the system preferences iCloud. what else do i have to do to activate the iCal and have sync with my iPad?

    Issue: iCal
    I can't sync the iCal in my new MacBook Air with the existing iCal in my iPad. I went to system preferences (settings) to iCloud and checked the iCal to enable it to sync to my existing iPad iCal. Still nothing happened. It's strange because i successfully synced my contacts doing the same thing. Is there anything I have to have my iCal activated in my new MacBook Air?

    Welcome to the Apple Community.
    First check that all your settings are correct, that calendar syncing is checked on all devices (system preferences > iCloud on a mac and settings > iCloud on a iPhone, iPad or iPod).
    Make sure the calendars you are using are in your 'iCloud' account and not an 'On My Mac', 'On My Phone' or other non iCloud account (you can do this by clicking/tapping the calendar button in the top left corner of the application ), non iCloud calendars will not sync.
    If you are sure that everything is set up correctly and your calendars are in the iCloud account, you might try unchecking calendar syncing in the iCloud settings, restarting your device and then re-enabling calendar syncing settings.

  • In system preferences iCloud, mail contacts calendar crash

    In system preferences icloud and mail, contacts, calendars crash, so I can't alter them.
    Mail seems to freeze and only way to restart is force quit and then it is fine till I think it updates with iCloud again and then won't shut down again unless force quit.

    Hi lynne168,
    If System Preferences or Mail are quitting unexpectedly, there are a few ways to isolate and resolve the issue.
    First, I'd recommend booting your computer into safe mode:
    Mac OS X: What is Safe Boot, Safe Mode?
    http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1564
    If the applications are working normally in safe mode, this usually means OS X is fine, and the issue is caused by conflicting software in your user account.
    Next, see if your computer behaves normally in a new user accoun:
    OS X Mountain Lion: Create a new user account
    http://support.apple.com/kb/PH11468
    If the issue persists in safe mode and a new user, I would recommend reinstalling OS X:
    OS X Mountain Lion: Reinstall OS X
    http://support.apple.com/kb/PH10763
    Best Regards,
    Jeremy

  • Have Lion, but just can't sign out in System Preferences iCloud.The application freezes

    Have Lion, but just can’t sign out in System Preferences>iCloud.The application freezes

    Nevermind. Reinstalled Leopard. Must have not installed Printing setup utilities properly upon first install.

  • HT5527 Hello, I had 25Go transfered from MobileMe, skimmed down to 5Go now. I cleaned my emails. From mail, on my mac, 'get account information' shows less than 1 Go... From System preferences/iCloud, up to yesterday it showed 12Go... I don't understand!

    Hello, I had 25Go transfered from MobileMe, skimmed down to 5Go now. I cleaned my emails. From mail, on my mac, 'get account information' shows less than 1 Go... From System preferences/iCloud, up to yesterday it showed 12Go...
    I don't understand!
    These information are contradctory. Now my account is locked.
    What Am I supposed to do???
    thanks for your help!

    Well as far as I can tell the only developed alternative to Apple is Microsoft, sure you want to go there?
    iCloud (and Mobile Me before it) are consumer level systems, working correctly they are a poor choice for business use, if you want to stay all Mac try Zimbra if you can let a little Microsoft in the mix use Microsoft Exchange (Mail, iCal & Address Book are compatible as clients), hosted Exchange systems cost about $10 per month.
    Or try to fix what is wrong with your installation (which is clearly not running as it should)

  • MB Air won't let me sign in to iCloud from System Preferences. I reset Keychain Access and deleted Accounts plist. No problem signing in via web and on other Mac.

    Hi all.
    I've just been given an Air. I used Migration Assistant to transfer everything (which didn't work very well: no Contacts transferred and the Air Contacts application can't even open manually transferred Contacts Archive .vcf).
    Trying to transfer contacts led me to iCloud - I thought I could copy them from there. Then I discovered that I can't sign in to iCloud via System Preferences. I get two error messages. The most common one is 'you cannot sign in at this time'. I've tried every solution on the web: I reinstalled Yosemite. I reset Keychain Access. I deleted Accounts plist.
    The other message I occasionally get is 'This is a valid Apple ID but not an iCloud account'. It is: I'm logged on fine on my MBP, iPhone and iPad.
    Any ideas? Thanks in advance,
    Aida

    So - I have been having this same issue, and while it's not totally resolved for me, I have figured out what's causing it.  I am running a machine with two hard drives and to keep my documents on a separate drive from the OS/Applications, I used the Advanced Option to specify the location of my home drive for my user account under "Users & Groups".  I've found that if I reset this to the default path of /Macintosh HD/Users/{username}, that it works fine.  However Apple has a bug in that this functionality breaks when you specify your own home directory.  Hopefully, this will be addressed in an update.

  • System preferences, Sharing: just a few items?

    Hi,
    I saw a video tutorial recently, in which the instructor started Apache by turning on "Personal Web Sharing" under "Sharing" in "System Preferences", from an earlier version of OSX Server. But in OSX SL Server I find only 7 items, and there is no "Personal Web Sharing" or even "Web Sharing". Nor do I find "Printer Sharing", "Internet Sharing", "XGrid Sharing", etc. etc. Are these placed somewhere else or did I do something wrong?

    Hi
    You may have been slightly confused about what you were looking at? Personal, Printer, Web, FTP and the rest are only available in the Client OS via the Sharing Preferences Pane. For OSX Server most of these are dedicated Services with their own 'fuller-featured' interfaces accessed via Server Admin. You won't see them in OSX Server's Sharing Preferences Pane in other words.
    I say Server Admin as I only ever use this and WorkGroup Manager. I have a feeling Server Preferences (depending on which mode chosen at the install stage) might give you some (limited?) access to these services also?
    Apart from the interface you can access all of these services as well as some features not available in the GUI using the command line:
    man serveradmin
    Would be a good place to start. Not sure how effective some of the command line tools are if indeed you chose Standalone at the beginning? This 'special' mode seems to behave in a way most of the experienced contributors/users on here are not familiar with because we simply don't use it. Standard/Standalone also seems to use config files in a different way? This is a shame as most of the current crop of posters looking for help are not necessarily getting what they were hoping for?
    Of course I could be assuming too much here and you are actually using SA and WGM normally?
    Tony

  • In MountainLion System Preferences, "iCloud", "Mail, Contacts, and Calenders", and "Software Update" all want to open in 32 bit mode.  Security and Privacy won't open either.

    As stated in the header,
    iCloud
    Mail, Contacts, and Calenders
    Software Update
    all want to open in 32 bit mode.  Then when System Preferences quits and relaunches IN 32 bit mode, I get a dialog box saying "You can't open (pick one) preferences because it doesn't work on an Intel-based Mac."  Moreover, Security and Privacy does the same thing only without the song and dance about quitting and reopening.
    Whaaaaat???!!!  I've never owned anything BUT an Intel Mac.
    The "open in 32 bit mode" is not, and has never been checked in "Get Info"
    I tried going to ~Library/Preferences and tossing all com.apple.system preferences files and rebooting.  No joy.
    It actually looks like some joker has included a bunch of PPC preference panes in my copy of MountainLion, except some of them are new to this OS.
    My hardware is a mid 2010 13" MacBook Pro with4 gb of RAM, and a 500 gb hard drive, in three seperate partitions, running three Mac operating systems, one at a time.  I have SnowLeopard in a small partition because I still have a few things that don't run in Lion/ML.  Lion is still my main use machine in the largest partition, and when ML came out, I redistributed most of the unused space into a 3rd partition into which I did a clean install of ML in it's own partition so I could work through the growing pains without compromising my main computer.  I'm glad I did it that way, but I DO want to get ML working properly, and I can't do that if I can't authorize third party software.  Gatekeeper is currently in the way, and I can't get it to move.

    I dunno, that doesn't make any sense to me.
    I just shut down and rebooted into the SnowLeopard partition and took a peek at the preference panes.  There are only 3 that run in 32 bit only.  They are all 3rd party, and none of the prefpanes are non Intel.  Like I said, I have never owned a PPC machine.  Anyhow, SnowLeopard doesn't even have an iCloud prefpane, or a combined mail, contacts, and calenders prefpane, and the ML security and privacy prefpane is all new as well.  The software update prefpane is Intel and 64 bit in both SnowLeopard and Lion.
    As to the triple boot, unless I'm totally mistaken, what I have here is, in essence, 3 seperate descrete computers in one box.  All using the same hardware. but one at a time.  I wouldn't know how to get more than one running at the same time, without using a virtual machine, even if I wanted to.  (Which I don't)  I do sometimes transfer files from one to another using the shared folder, but other than that, they do not interact.  How could ML system preferences be trying to launch prefpanes from a totally different machine?

  • System preferences/icloud become's unresponsive

    I'm trying to change some icloud settings. Just updated to mountain lion this week.  Everytime I click 'icloud' under system preferences, it automatically becomes unresponsive & I have to 'force quit' or it just sit's & does nothing.

    It seems it fixed on its own. Everything is working properly now.

  • There is no "find my iPhone" option in the system preferences iCloud window on my iMac.

    It is turned on (as are location services) on my iPhone? and there is a "find my mac" option in the iCloud system preferences window but no "find my iPhone"? All is up to date! All is turned on! Thanks.

    There is no Find my... app for Mac. The "Find my Mac" service allows your Mac to be found, but is not actually an app. To view the location of your devices, you have to go to http://icloud.com. This is the computer equivalent of Find my iPhone.

  • I can't change Name in System Preferences / iCloud / Account Details

    In this board, look at left area, My name is Joy Neop, but there are wrongs that my first name and last name changed position each other.
    I clicked "Account Details", and...
    And I tried changing, but after I click "OK", nothing changed.
    I then quit System Preferences and relaunch it, but the border's content turned back like the first capture shows.
    I need help...

    There are no applications in your mobile documents folder.
    Click on the Finder to activate it and then go to the "Go" menu, with the menu displaying hold down the alt key on your keyboard and you will see a "library" option appear in the menu. Select the library option from the menu and your finder window will change to display the contents of your library folder. Navigate to the mobile documents folder and look for a folder that is associated with your password app. Hopefully inside that folder you will find the document that you are looking for.

  • How do I change my Apple ID on my iMac. It is showing an old ID in System Preferences/Internet Accounts and System Preferences/iCloud

    My iPhone, iPad and iMac Safari access to the Apple Store and iCloud are fine and accept my new Apple ID. Mail constantly prompts me for a password with a box that shows my old Apple ID. I'm guessing that somewhere on the iMac I can change or delete the old Apple ID? It's not in the Keychain.
    iMac OS X 10.10
    Mail 8

    Thanks Eric. If I try, I get a box with the statement:
    Your iCloud account couldn't be removed at this time.
    Mail was unable to delete [email protected] (It just shows this as normal black type without the email envelope) Relaunch Mail then sign our of iCloud again.
    It shows an OK box.
    The Apple ID shown is of course, the old one, that I am trying to change on the iMac. On my iPhone, iPad, the Apple Store and iCloud via safari, only my new Apple ID is shown.
    I tried to insert an image of this scenario but I couldn't insert the chosen 138KB tiff image.

  • HT4906 i have icloud on my mac and iPad.  I took pictures, downloaded them to my ipad and backed them up on the iPad.   I  want to get them from the cloud to my mac.  I go to system preferences, iCloud and see that photo stream is greyed out.  it says I n

    I have photos on my ipad and backed up to the icloud.  I go to try to get them from the icloud to my mac pro and it says I need iphoto updatte, but when I go to update iphote it says no update available.  what do I do to get my photos onto my computer from icloud

    this article explains how to set it up and describes the requirements for different features
    http://www.apple.com/icloud/setup/
    LN

Maybe you are looking for