help, can't connect to itunes musicstore; "keychain invalid"

[cowgirl]

hi everyone,

i'm having a problem connecting to the itunes music store. i'm getting the message:

"iTunes could not connect to the music store. The requested keychain is invaild. Open Keychain Acess and run Keychain First Aid then try again"

i've used the itunes store before (quite often), but suddenly i'm not able to do it. i did remove my laptop from home and re-connect to my wi-fi, but i'm not sure that's the problem.

in any case, i saw that someone else had the same problem and people suggested he do various things (drag the keychains folder to the desktop, type in the password, reboot...remove the "plist" files...). i tried all that and it didn't work. eventually the man fixed his problem by repairing corrupt files, but i don't know how to do that.

any ideas? i miss my itunes shows!

-thanks

 

[Counterfit]

Have you tried running the Kychain First Aid?

 

[cowgirl]

Have you tried running the Kychain First Aid?

yup, a bunch of times, but it didn't work

or i guess i should say that it says there is no problem

 

[Westside guy]

I had a similar (but not exactly matching problem) - this would only be applicable if you use a different keychain password than your login password.

Recently Apple added a keychain preference "Synchronize login keychain password" and, stupidly, enabled it by default. Part of the issue here is it doesn't work very well, so in some cases you have to type in your login password and in other cases your old, different keychain password. Half the time my keychain wouldn't work; and a few times I got that same "invalid" message.

The other part of that issue is they added this feature without really letting us know. So suddenly I found myself having constant keychain problems for no apparent reason, other than upgrading to 10.4.8.

In this particular situation, the solution was to uncheck that "synchronize" box, run keychain first aid, and then change the keychain password to something different (and then change it back to what you really want it to be). I haven't had a problem since.

 

[sclink]

here's another solution

In Keychain Access, go to Window > select Keychain List
Select theLogin keychain and then select the "Global" box at top right, then hit Apply
You may also need to do this for the system keychain.... worked for me
(this fixes the keychain invalid original problem in this thread)

see
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=8487798�