IPhoto: solution when "buy book" generates an error.

Question

Hello all,
I thought I post this. Maybe this will help others who face the same problem.
I created a book in iPhoto. After clicking the "Buy Book" button, I received the message:
     <i>There was a problem contacting the Apple online store. Please try again.</i>
I searched the internet and found several other people having the same problem.
Several solutions were also given like:
     1. Temporarily tun of the firewall
     2. Be sure the select, in Preferences in iPhoto under Advanced the book store that matches the country of your Apple ID
     3. Be sure to have the correct and valid credit card data entered in your Apple ID
     4. Be sure the password of your Apple ID is correct
     5. Go to iTunes, "purchase" a free App and if you are prompted to accept Apples policy, do so and try again to buy your book
     6. Apple online store may be down or to busy, try again on a different time.
However, none of these solutions worked for me.
After digging further I finally found the solution (at least for me).
If you have ever made, in System Preferences => Language and Text, under Formats any change, than "Region" will show "Customized" instead of your country. I live in the Netherlands, the default for short date is to show years in two digits. I changed this once (in the past) to show dates with four digits years.
Resetting "Region" to match the country of your Apple ID did the trick.
I was then able to order my book in iPhoto.
Kind regards,
emeu1

Answer 1

Try the iPhoto community forum.