Well fortunately I did actually manage to get this figured out without zapping anything. I hadn’t seen the advanced button under keychain on the phone. Here indeed you can change the code and the phone number. Then my next misery was that for some reason my phone wasn’t receiving any calls or texts after I’d enabled handoff on the mac. Fortunately a reboot of the phone got that one solved. And then the mac started showing that option again to have a device verify the keychain which is really what i wanted in the first place. So now the Mac is added. what a chore, but at least it’s done and the process is straightforward enough if the Apple servers weren’t bogged down and the phone hadn’t been conked by adding the Mac to it.
> On Oct 16, 2014, at 5:49 PM, Jonathan Mosen <jmo...@mosen.org> wrote: > > Hi Deb, I think the only option you may have in your situation is to > completely zap your Keychain and start over. > Jonathan Mosen > Mosen Consulting > Blindness technology eBooks, tutorials and training > http://Mosen.org <http://mosen.org/> >> On 17/10/2014, at 1:29 pm, Deb Lewis <deblewi...@gmail.com >> <mailto:deblewi...@gmail.com>> wrote: >> >> When I set up my keychain I had a different Mac. When I got rid of it, I >> forgot that the phone number i’d used for verification is no longer valid >> for receiving a text to verify a new Mac on the keychain. >> I’ve looked on my phone and can find no way to change the number for the >> keychain there. And on my new Mac it keeps sending the verification to the >> old number that isn’t valid. I thought there was a way to have it contact >> another phone on the keychain and let that be the verification. Is there any >> way to get that to happen? And if not, do I have to dump my entire iCloud >> and start over or worse? Yikes!! I can only find instructions for changing >> the number on another Mac in the keychain. That’s what I no longer have. >> Just phones on it and wanting to add my Mac. >> This would be under Yosemite on the Mac. >> Thanks for any help at all. >> >> deb >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "MacVisionaries" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com >> <mailto:macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com>. >> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com >> <mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com>. >> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries >> <http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries>. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout >> <https://groups.google.com/d/optout>. > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > <mailto:macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com>. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com > <mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com>. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries > <http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries>. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout > <https://groups.google.com/d/optout>. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
