Oh, I hate apple

[hal]

DAMN - when other companies do this, I leave...

Itunes was bouncing in the dock... it wanted my password so it could check and see it there was anything to download. Suddenly my password is no good it seems (the one that has bee used forEVER). I enter it and reenter it - no go...

I go to the reset password page and set it to the what it should be.

REJECTED - that password was used in the last year...

try another one

REJECTED - there must be at least one numeral

again

REJECTED - there must be at least one capitalized letter

I use a '$'

REJECTED - there must be at least one capitalized letter

it took forever to get it to accept something... I return to itunes and enter the new password. NO GO!

I call apple - this is not something that humans there deal with... pointed me to a web page...

UGH!!!

Start typing a message on the webpage and try itunes again - this time I get a weird error... tried again and it worked... but now I have this entirely unique, unrememberable password for my itunes account... argh!

of course I can't leave apple.... I just curse and move on... but came here to whine first...

there... that's better....

[Trouble]

When you get an error for a saved password in iTunes or Mail, do not reenter your password. The bouncing password error is just a "catch-all" alert. It just means for some reason iTunes or Mail couldn't log in.

[ztirffritz]

My iTunes account decided out of the blue that it no longer liked PayPal. I tried and tried to get them to work together, but I finally had to tie the account to a credit card. It was strange. I had sales pending for software downloads that I'd already downloaded and installed, but couldn't pay for. I kind of wondered what would happen if I never fixed it.

[(vikm)]

hal wrote:

REJECTED - there must be at least one capitalized letter

I use a '$'

REJECTED - there must be at least one capitalized letter

it took forever to get it to accept something... I return to itunes and enter the new password. NO GO!

Just because $tevie uses it in her name doesn't mean "$" is a capitalized letter

Sorry for your troubles!

[Chakravartin]

hal wrote: ... tried again and it worked... but now I have this entirely unique, unrememberable password for my itunes account... argh!

Yeah.

I wish 1Password worked with iTunes.

[AllGold]

hal wrote:
I go to the reset password page and set it to the what it should be.

REJECTED - that password was used in the last year...

try another one

REJECTED - there must be at least one numeral

again

REJECTED - there must be at least one capitalized letter

I use a '$'

REJECTED - there must be at least one capitalized letter

it took forever to get it to accept something... I return to itunes and enter the new password. NO GO!

I hate that password battle. I have dozens of different online accounts, many are work-related, and they all seem to insist on having different rules. I especially love the ones that do NOT allow special characters. I also have some that won't let you use of any of the last 9 different passwords. :cursin:

[davester]

Password rules are designed to only allow passwords that you can't possibly remember. Didn't you know that already? The solution is having 1Password installed on all of your devices.

[Michael]

AllGold wrote: I also have some that won't let you use of any of the last 9 different passwords. :cursin:

My college started doing that, as well. So, I added a number to the end of my original password and increase by 1 each time I have to change it. When I get to 0, I just start again at 1.

[Ombligo]

90% of the people I work with use 1234567 (+ a number as needed).. we are required to use a new one every 90 days and it can't be the last three. Even IT uses that password on the generic accounts.

Why even bother?

[OWC Jamie]

ha-ha, I've been using qwerty+# for minor accounts.

I think I had this same problem with my first G-Mail account and probably should not have insisting on "fixing things" right away and instead waiting for self resolution.