Mail doesn't save password for iCloud IMAP account (works fine with other email providers)

Mavericks Mail doesn't save the password for my iCloud IMAP account no matter how many times I enter it into Preferences or enter it when prompted. Doesn't seem to be saving in Keychain or wherever it should be saved. Passwords for all other email providers that I use are saved. Any suggestions on how to fix this? Thanks!!!!!

Great, thanks A LOT! Best answer on that issue and so simple!!!! Now it works perfectly fine

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I keep getting an error message when I enter my password for iCloud IMAP server

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A more general approach to remedying such problems would be to turn off Mail in System Preferences/Settings > iCloud, checking the account has been removed from Mail (and deleting it if it hasn't), restarting and then enabling iCloud Mail again from System Preferences/Settings > iCloud. This will ensure the correct settings are used.

I am getting this message in my mail, user name or password for ICloud is incorrect

I am getting this message in my mail, user name or password for ICloud is incorrect

Apple are currently trying to get less secure passwords updated. They require that your account passwords are at least eight characters long and contain both alpha and numeric characters and at least one upper case alpha character.
You might try changing your account password to match these requirements.
My Apple ID

With 10.2 I can only use system speaker output for audio, NOT my RME FF400 I used previously. The FF400 works fine with other apps. How can I set this device in FCP 10.2? (it is set in both system preferences and midi)

With 10.2 I can only use a system (e.g. speaker) output for audio, NOT my RME FF400 I used without any problems previously. The FF400 works fine with other apps (some like TwistedWave) setup in the program, and others (like Spotify) using system preferences & audio midi setup. How can I set the FF400 to be the sound output device in FCP 10.2? N.B. The FF400 is set as sound output device in both system preferences and audio midi setup.

From the fcp.co forum. See if this does anything for you.
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I have the solution! Well it at least worked for me. This is the response I got from Apple, Can you please try the following steps towards fixing your audio issue, and report back with your results?
1. Open the application Audio Midi Setup (located in Applications : Utilities)
2. Select the Output Tab for the current output device
3. Select the Configure Speakers option
4. Select the Multichannel tab
5. Change the setting to Stereo Now mine was set to stereo but the left channel wasn't showing left. re-clicking on stereo reloaded the settings and after clicking apply it worked.

After working fine for several months, my iPhone 5 has started dropping bluetooth connectivity for 2 to 5 seconds at a time with my Sony MDR-1RBT headphones. The headphones work fine with other devices. I haven't moved to ios7 yet. Any ideas?

After working fine for several months, my iPhone 5 has started dropping bluetooth connectivity for 2 to 5 seconds at a time with my Sony MDR-1RBT headphones. The headphones work fine with other bluetooth devices. I haven't moved to iOS7 yet. Any ideas?

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And as far as iOS 7.x is concerned, we have 5 different iPhones here at home, all with the latest iOS, a 4, 4s, 5c, and 2-5s and all are working just fine. So, a blanket statement such as the one provided by the other poster is not completely true. Others are not having any issues at all either.

My up to date iMac can not read the lightroom 5 installation dvd I received for christmas, the dvd player works fine with other dvd's, is there a way to download the program with the dvd's serial number?

my up to date iMac can not read the lightroom 5 installation dvd I received for christmas, the dvd player works fine with other dvd's, is there a way to download the program with the dvd's serial number?

No need to worry about the disk version. You would just have to install an update anyway as soon as it was installed. Download from the link provided below and use the serial number you have to activate.
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HT1296 Is there any way I can transfer the music from my ipod touch to my computer without having to pay for it? Itunes worked fine with my ipod on my old laptop. I am not willing to risk losing all of the music on my ipod to update to the newest iOS.

I really don't want to lose all of the music I have on my ipod touch. It worked fine with my ipod and my old laptop but I got a new laptop and now it doesn't want to sync anything except purchases I made on the ipod and everything that was in the cloud. The rest of the music on my ipod is from old CDs and I am away from home. I would greatly appreciate it if someone could give me some advice. I also don't really want to pay for a download that moves the music into itunes so if anything is free and safe that would be great or if there is a way to do it manually. Again thanks to anyone who has advice to share.

You would have to purchase a 3rd party program ( not supported by Apple).
The ipod is not a storage/backup device.
Copy everything from the old computer or your backup copy of your old computer.

Mail doesn't save passwords after 10.5.7 update

Did clean install and updated to 10.5.7 but now 2 of my IMAP accounts don't save passwords and keep getting asked for it everytime I launch Mail. Anyone having this issue too?

Launch Keychain Access (in the Utilities folder), go to the First Aid tab in its Prefs, and see whether the choices are set to your liking. Then run First Aid from the main menu. If that doesn't help, try Reset in the Prefs/General tab. While you're at it, you might see whether the choices there look right, too.

Safari doesn't save passwords for webpages like Facebook, Youtube, Twitter etc.

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I have Mountain Line with Safari 6.0.2. I used to open Facebook, Youtube, Twitter etc. and everytime I select "Stay signed in" "Remember my password" etc. but it doesn't save my passwords and everytime I have to sign in again. I never sign out from these websites but when I open it next time, it requires username & password.
Does anybody know the problem & solution, plz help.

Instructions
Set Your Passwords Preferences
1
Open up your Safari Web browser and choose 'Preferences' from the Safari pull down menu
2
Click on the heading 'AutoFill.'
Click on the box next to 'User Names and Passwords.'
4
Close the 'Preferences' window.
Save Your Passwords
5
Go to a Web page that requires a password and enter in your chosen password. Safari will then ask if you would like to save this password.
6
Click on the button 'Yes' in order to save the password.
7
Complete steps 1 and 2 for any other passwords that you want Safari to remember.
Manage Your Passwords
8
Go to the 'AutoFill' section in the Safari Preferences window.
9
Click on the 'Edit' button to the right of where it says 'User Names and Passwords.' This will bring up a window displaying all of the passwords and usernames that you have authorized Safari to save.
10
Click on a password listing and push the 'Remove' button in order to delete the password from Safari's memory.
11
Choose 'Remove All' in order to delete all of the saved passwords.
12

Mail keeps deleting the password for iCloud?

Using mail on an iMac, mail will not keep the iCloud password and deletes it after it has been saved. It also keeps taking the accounts offline when I am trying to send e-mail frustrating! Why not just log onto the accounts as outlined in the preferences.

Thanks for the reply but it seems that something else is also going on.
When this little window appears asking for my password I am given the option to "cancel" but nothing happens if I click that box. I'm reallly given only two options: typing my password into that box or cancelling the MAIL program, shutting down my internet connection and then re-opening MAIL. If I do neither of these I'm frozen.
If I restart the program I find two things. All accounts are off-line and my password has disappeared from Preferences?Account Information. If I re-type my password and click all accounts back on-line I'm okay.
But what bothers me most is the removal of my password from Preferences. How could some failure to connect to the server be responsible for this? Couldn't the problem somehow be in the MAIL program? Maybe this problem is triggered by a failed connecion to the server, but how could anything like that affect settings in my program? If something happening out there in server-land could erase my password I almost feel like I'm being hacked.
John
John
if go to Preferences/Account Info I see that my password has been removed. I have to re-enter it there and then instruct accountsto go back on-line(I have two accounts active adn it will always be only the password that had been challenged that is gone; the one for the other account is still there.)
So, difficulty connecting to the server or not, ow could that effectively change settings in my program - that is, the password I have set in my Preferences. Whatever is happening is somehow corrupting the MAIL program.
John

Mac Mail doesn't recognize password but iCloud does

Beginning yesterday the Mac Mail stopped recognizing my password.
iCloud does recognize it.
Checked all the online sources for Preferences and all seems to match the recommendations.

Welcome to Apple Support Communities
We're users here, and several of us have apparently encountered the same problem today.
The solution posted by Tareg in this thread worked for me:
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/5510065?tstart=0

TS3276 mail doesn't recognise password. my bt yahoo is working ok .help?

my mail doesn't recognise my password athough my bt yahoo is accepting it and is working .Help?

I've now managed to log back into my email account but now the server seems to be suffering some sofrt of intermittent memory failure. Now although I have been sending and receiving emails from this account most of the day in the last couple of hours the connection to the email server has become very slow, though a test gives perfectly usual speeds of
Download 12.5Mb
Upload 2.54Mb
yet my last few attempts to send emails have all failed, most simply timed out but a few that did get through have now been bounced as
'334 535 invalid user ID or password'
Obviously both are in fact correct, as neither have changed in the past couple of hours, so it would appear to be a problem at the server end though I can find nothing about a problem anywhere. Any suggestions or should I just hope it will be feeling better after a good night's rest.
Many thanks
JohninCornwall

Can't click on certain options like log-out, that are usually located at the top of a website. They are frozen, and firefox doesn't allow me to click on them. It works fine with other browsers.

For example, if when I use hotmail, I cannot click on the options that appear in the upper portion of the page. Example, "menu" "help" "log-out". Same thing happens to facebook, so i can't see my notifications, or log out. When i try to click on them, nothing happens. I tried using facebook and hotmail with other browsers, and it works fine. I don't understand why i can't click on certain things with firefox. I haven't recently made any changes to firefox, and it is the lastest version. I also tried uninstalling, and installing again, but it didn't fix the problem.
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On aol mail very difficult to return to google home page.Works fine with chrome

I click the aol icon on igoogle and go to aol mail which works fine,but trying to return to igoogle is practically impossible and really need to close firefox and start again.

Thanks Tom. Your fix did work. I really appreciate your help.
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Signing up for iCloud has caused freezing problems with my email. Can I delete my iCloud account?

iPhone 5, activated iCloud. Now my email is frozen. What should I do? Delete iCloud? accessing Settings "verification failed there was an error connecting to iCloud

You cannot delete the iCloud account that is signed on to Find My iPhone unless you know the password. This is called the Activation Lock:
ACTIVATION LOCK
It is an anti-theft security measure that is a part of iOS 7. You can only get around this by following the steps in this support article:
Find My iPhone Activation Lock: Removing a device from a previous owner’s account
Contact your friend. This is the only way around the lock.
Best of luck,
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