.Mac failures related to Keychain synchronization

It appears that in some cases, failures in .Mac synchronization transfers are linked to issues with Keychain.

If you are having problems synchronizing data with .Mac servers, you may want to try the following process:

• Open System Preferences and access the .Mac pane
• Click the "Sync" tab
• Uncheck the "Synchronize with .Mac" checkbox
• Close System Preferences
• Re-open System Preferences and repeat steps 1 and 2
• Re-check the "Synchronize with .Mac" checkbox

If the above process does not re-allow synchronization, you may need to leave Keychain synchronization turned off in the "Sync" tab of the .Mac System Preferences pane.

MacFixIt reader Faisal writes:

"I believe the problem may be related to Keychain sync overwriting or mangling the .Mac information in the Keychain. By disabling Keychain sync I seem to be able to sync again without issue."

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