Logging into my account now takes 5 minutes
I've just upgraded from 10.4.11 to 10.6.1 and everything seems to work fine except for the login process which now takes around 5 minutes, rather than the usual few seconds. I boot up the mac, choose my account at the login screen, type in the password and then wait. The login is fine except for the amount of time it takes, which is an inconvenience. Leaving the machine on constantly is not an option as I move it between home and work daily. Any ideas?
I had such problem too. My one was related to broken firewire port in Intel iMac (under TIger it logs up to 1 min but under Leopard&Snow Leopard it takes up to 7 minutes).
I solve mine problem by completely removing FireWire kext drivers from system. Do not the same before not sure!!!
FIrst of all, see what is in your system log (/var/logs/system.log), note, that you should had administrator rights to see it. Also it may be seen from Console (Show Log List > DATABASE SEARCHES > All Messages). See it right after login. There will be messages what the same happens in desired time period (while system is started but before login dialog appearing).
I think, posting here messages that starts from the time of boot and up to Desktop appearing will be good idea - it may help us to understand yours problem.
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Hi! I am so stumped with having multiple Apple ID accounts. I did this not knowing what I was doing and now I can not update my iPhoto app because it tells me to log into the account that I used to purchase it. I thought I was trying to do this but I can't get anywhere.
Please help!
FloraHi Florafromco,
You can view your iTunes Store account and request assistance by following the instructions below:
iTunes Store & Mac App Store: Seeing your purchase history and order numbers
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht2727
I hope this information helps ....
The following article will provide a little more information regarding using multiple Apple ID's:
Using your Apple ID for Apple services
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4895
I hope this information helps ....
Have a great day!
Have a great day!
- Judy -
1st-I was able to log into my account but was not able to open any applications, tried another account and same thing. was able to log out and restart but now am unable to use mouse. g5 dual core, can't remember the os without seeing it.
Could be many things, we should start with this...
"Try Disk Utility
1. Insert the Mac OS X Install disc, then restart the computer while holding the C key.
2. When your computer finishes starting up from the disc, choose Disk Utility from the Installer menu. (In Mac OS X 10.4 or later, you must select your language first.)
Important: Do not click Continue in the first screen of the Installer. If you do, you must restart from the disc again to access Disk Utility.
3. Click the First Aid tab.
4. Select your Mac OS X volume.
5. Click Repair. Disk Utility checks and repairs the disk."
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=106214
Then try a Safe Boot, (holding Shift key down at bootup), run Disk Utility in Applications>Utilities, then highlight your drive, click on Repair Permissions, reboot when it completes.
(Safe boot may stay on the gray radian for a long time, let it go, it's trying to repair the Hard Drive.)
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when attempting to log into my account on itunes it ask for my password! I put my password in then I get the prompt again asking for my apple password! I put it in again and it still won't take!! What can be going on? I'm trying on my Mac pro !! Everything is up to date on the the latest Itunes version!!
Hello CarenzaRielle,
I know not being able to access your Apple ID can be frustrating. I have located an article that will walk you through a series of troubleshooting steps to resolve this:
Apple ID: If you forget your password
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht5787
Refer to the Apple ID Support page if you are unable to reset your password using the steps in this article. If you know your Apple ID password, you can also choose to change your Apple ID or change your password.
Thank you for contributing to Apple Support Communities.
Cheers,
BobbyD -
HT203128 Why do i have to log into my account to play all my games now? I never had to before!
After downloading the latest version of iTunes today 4/9/15, I now have to log into my account to use any of my apps or programs on my iPad air 2. I never had to do this before and it is a real pain! What gives?
On the iPad, go to Settings > Game Center and make sure you are signed out.
You may have to go through this about three times when playing games, after which the iPad will realize you do not intend to sign in to Game Center. -
I have an old messed up CC account and I accidentally logging into to it, now I can log out.
Never mind. I clicked om my account email in the setting and it let me switch accounts
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I am simply trying to get to home screen where I can combine files, edit files, convert, etc. I had the link saved but now it's gone. logging into my account at adobe seems to be a circle of marketing adobe products...i'm just trying to use my current package. Please help.
Hi Kenny Fikes,
You can access Acrobat online services using this Link ( cloud.acrobat.com ) , although you might need to sign-in using your Adobe ID, before you can access those services.
Does that help? Please reply back for any further query or assistance.
Regards,
Rahul Tyagi -
I cannot log into my account on my macbook.
My macbook will turn on but once I have logged into my account nothing happens, then after a long delay the screen goes blue and it goes back to the log in screen. Why is this? What can I do? About a week ago it was absolutely fine, then it started freezing for several minutes at a time and now it won't even log in. Can anyone help me?
Booting from the install disk is good, but you might also want to try booting in safe mode.
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Verify Your Payment message when i log into my account....
Hi, I found out my iTunes account was hacked last year as a hacker using a trojan horse backdoor program remotely controlled my computer. Long story short...i got a better anti-virus program scanned my computer and quarantined it. However, up until this day, everytime i log into my account, the person keeps playing around with it. They have tried to download music and succeeded. They are trying to buy music on my account but can't and now everytime i log into my account i get the message (Verify your payment). I clikc okay and it sends me to my account information pop up that says right next to my name and address (You must verify your payment before you can make purchases). This doesn't happen all the time and that i how i know someone is fooling around with it. Apple support told me how it will ak you that from time to time just so you keep your information up to date (that will only pop up if you are planning on buying something). Are any of you going through the same problem? And the songs on my album that i bought at the store are all in the wrong order. Is that happening to you to? It was never like that until the last iTunes update.
<Edited By Host>why would a host be editing my post? Is someone from the Apple company doing this? Why would you have to edit my post? Whta right do you have logging into my account to make changes to anything i make?
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Error message: "Logging into the account failed because an error occurred."
Hello,
We had an XServe G5 2.0 DP 5GB/80/2x250 running Mac OS X 10.3.9 Server with all updates as a main server for a school. The server provides Open Directory Master as well as File-Sharing (AFP and SMB) and e-mail services to about 30 teachers and 300 students. The user home directories reside on the server. A web server also runs on the machine. The students use a pool of laptops, which are configured with a local guest and admin account as well as access to the server-based home directories with Directory Access. The server had the OS running on the 80 GB hard drive and all data (Home directories, mail database, website, etc. were on the two mirrored 250 GB drives.) All was working well until...
A few weeks ago, one of the two 250 GB died. We decided to use the opportunity to upgrade the server and set it up with 3 x 750 GB, two drives running as a mirrored pair to hold OS AND Data, the other as a stand-by unit to help replace a failing drive.
We migrated the OS and all data from the previous drives without a problem. Since now, all data is residing on one pair of drives, we put the data from the old "Data" drive in a folder on the root level of the new HD pair. We wrote a script that launches at startup which creates the symlink in /Volumes/Data to link to /Data. We thought that with this, all would be well.
However: When any user tries to log into his account from any iBook (10.3.9 or 10.4.11) (wirelessly), he gets the message:
"Logging into the account failed because an error occurred. The home folder for the user account is located on an afp or smb server. contact your system administrator for help"
If the user logs in to the guest account on the iBook, then accesses his home directory via file-sharing, he can see (read/write) all his data. So, the data and privileges seem to be OK, as well as Open Directory working correctly. Mail and the web work well also, as does logging in to a user account from one of the PC's (wired).
Can anyone make any suggestions as to how to fix the situation? Currently, the users are using the guest accounts and accessing their data via filesharing, as well as using webmail for their e-mail, but this is a major nuisance.
Any help will be greatly appreciated.
Best regards,
Alain Chammas
A user trying to access his account from a PC (wired) has no problems.A good number of folks are having problems with this same error message at login, and nobody seems to have found a fix.
I believe I have stumbled upon, if not a solution, at least part of the answer. If you're logged into a 10.4 workstation, open a Finder window and click the "Network" icon. The first time you do this, you'll only see "Library" and "Servers" icons, but if you let it sit for a moment, other folders will magically appear. One of these is "My Network" which is the critical part.
In Workgroup Manager, edit one of your users' home directory configuration. There's a URL piece, usually "afp://server.domain.com/Users" (which is what shows up in the window when you click on the "Home" tab for that user), and then there's a "Home" path that is usually something like "/Network/Servers/servername/Users/username". Trouble is, you've noticed that 10.4 doesn't put servers into the "Servers" path, but rather into the "My Network" path.
So, if you change that "Home" path to read "/Network/My Network/servername/Users/username", it should work--with one caveat. Apparently 10.4 doesn't create the "My Network" path on a given client until you actually browse the network on that client. If you haven't logged into a 10.4 workstation and browsed the network, the "My Network" path won't be there, and you'll still get the error. Login as a local user, browse the network (so that the "My Network" folder shows up), logout, and then login as an Open Directory user, and it should work.
I'm betting that 10.3, 10.4, and 10.5 all handle this issue differently, so if you're in a mixed-version situation, you may have to experiment to find a workable fix.
Derndest thing I ever saw. -
how can I reset my iPad YouTube password? I can't sign into youtube on iPad. It says Username or password is wrong although both are correct when I log into YouTube account via Google. I also tried my husbands youtube login and password and the same outcome. Now I cant log into YouTube via the iPad account. I can log into Youtube via Google however my subscriptions and favorites are all gone. Can I reset the YouTube account located on the iPad? I cant seem to reset the password or delete the app and re-add. I dont want to reset the iPad since I have alot of videos and pictures on it.
Do you have Google 2 stage authentication turned on?
If so, you wont't be able to use your normal google password, but will have to instead generate an "application specific" password for the iPad YouTube app in the google security settings section. -
Why can't I log into my account?
I don't understand why you can't log into your account when it's the least they can do since there is a non existent customer service. I just need to pay my final bill so I can rid of this sad idea of superior service. Thankfully I have upgraded to a carrier who knows and practices customer service. Verizon you should take notes for you seriously lack this quality! Good ridden's!
Try this:
Verizon Wireless - Collections - Login Page -
Strange device permanently logged into my account ...
Hi,
Question:
Is there a temporary file on the server in my skype accout? I mean, an obsolete file that should have been deleted at the end of one of the skype sessions? And if yes, then is this file causing me problems calling certain overseas numbers?
The problem:
I noticed today that I can't call certain mobile numbers of abroad operators and phones are physically located abroad. Instead of an intermittent signal, I hear voice message "The number you selected is incorrect. Please review and try again." or something like this.
Interestingly (not sure if related), that when I tried to call those two mob. numbers from a landline I had the same result.
Started googlind and found skype chat comands (something happens when you enter them into a chat window): https://support.skype.com/en/faq/FA10042/what-are-chat-commands-and-roles
One of those comands:
/showplaces
displays all instances of skype currently logged into an account:
/showplaces
You have 3 online endpoints:
{abcdefgh-ijkl-mnop-qrst-uvwxyzabcdef}) mypc Linux Skype
{f8a5a8af-xxxx-bcbe-yyyy-zzzzzzzzzzzz}) localhost Android Skype
{d022f523-xxxx-3f23-yyyy-zzzzzzzzzzzz}) localhost Android Skype
First device (fake ID of course) is my PC, second is probably my phone, third one might be a result of a corrupted temporary file.
Please note that sections of ID sequences marked with "x", "y" and "z" are identical between each "localhost Android Skype" devices. Only the first and third sequences are different.
I changed the password 3 times (incl. skype account recovery where you have to put quite specific data, whilst i another tab of the web browser, where I had logged in before, I was still able to manipulate the account). That did not change the list of logged in devices (and I didn't check if I was able to make a call to those two mobile numbers).
Then I switched the phone completely off. Checked again with
/showplaces
and I still can see the above 3 devices, despite there should be only one now. However, I can call those two numbers now.
Unfortunately in the end of that play I typed another coman:
/remotelogout
which kills all other sessions except from this one, from which such comand is executed.
So looks like my problem is solved FOR NOW, but I still want to know what the hell happened.
Please advise.Hello tinasmac
If you are having issues with FaceTime for Mac, check out the following article to help resolve the issue.
FaceTime for Mac: Troubleshooting FaceTime
http://support.apple.com/kb/ts4185
Thanks for using Apple Support Communities.
Regards,
-Norm G. -
when attempting to log into my account on itunes it ask for my password! I put my password in then I get the prompt again asking for my apple password! I put it in again and it still won't take!! What can be going on? I'm trying on my Mac pro !! Everything is up to date on the the latest Itunes version!!
I just asked the same thing and did some research. Some people have said that the UDID code is like banned from instagram, but your account isn't. I'm able to use it on my phone but not on my iPod.
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I cannot log into user account with old password after using migration assistant.
I used Migration Assistant to move only my Settings and Users from my Power PC (User name RLE 5) to my Mac Pro. Because of what I have read in these forums I did not migrate applications or and files/folders. I will do that manually. After migrating I tried logging in to my user account RLE 5 on my Mac Pro, but it is telling me I am using the wrong password. I used the same password I used on my Power PC, but with no luck. On my Mac Pro I went into System Preferences>Accounts>RLE 5 account and changed the password. I then rebooted and tried again. No luck.
Can somebody help me with this problem?
Thank you.What you propose would not solve the problem I am having. I must not have been clear about it. So I will elaborate.
I have a Power PC with 10.5.8. The admin user account name is RLE 5. I need a password to log into my root user account on my Power PC.
Then I bought a used Mac Pro with a clean install of 10.7.5 and no password set up yet for my admin user account. The admin user account name is Mac Pro. When I turn on the computer it opens to my admin user account where I have access to everything.
I used Migrations Assistant to move my Settings and Users from my Power PC to my Mac Pro. That seemed to to successfully.
So I now have four users on my Mac Pro: RLE 5 (the admin user from my Power PC with the password), Mac Pro (my admin user which does not require a password), and two guest user accounts.
I turn on my Mac Pro and it opens to my Mac Pro admin user account. I don't need to sign in. No problem.
I log out of Mac Pro. On my screen are the four user accounts. I click on RLE 5 (which was my admin user account on my Power PC that I migrated over to my Mac Pro) to log into that account and it asks me for a password. I type in the password I used for my Power PC. It keeps telling me it is the incorrect password.
I cannot log into my user account RLE 5 on the Mac Pro. I am being told I have the incorrect password. I've gone to System Preferences>Accounts and changed the password. It doesn't make a difference.
Also I cannot log into the Guest User account that migrated from the Power PC to the Mac Pro for the same reason. I have also tried to change the password for that Guest User account also but with no luck.
Another interesting thing has happened. I decided to give my Mac Pro admin user account a password by going to System Preferences>Accounts. But when I do a test to sign into my admin user account Mac Pro it tells me it is the wrong password. Luckily I can reboot the computer and it opens to my Mac Pro user without asking for a password. But if I log out of Mac Pro and try to then sign back in with the password it tells me it is the incorrect password.
Any suggestions would be appreciated.
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