Snow leapord continually asks for password for routine tasks
how do I stop snow leopard from asking for password to change folder names?
In the Finder, select the icon of your home folder in the sidebar on the left, and choose "Get Info" from the File menu. In the Sharing & Permissions section of the info window, you should see your user name and "Read & Write." If that's so, click the lock icon in the lower right corner of the window and enter your administrator name and password when prompted. Then open the action menu (with a gear icon) at the bottom of the window, and choose "Apply to enclosed items." Close the window and try your action again.
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Continuing asked about password for old Apple id on iphone5
I have changed Apple id, but I still been asked about password for the old one on my iPhone 5. How do i solve this probleme?
Are you saying you don't know the password for your old Apple ID?
To update any apps, on your phone, obtained with your old ID, you will have to: Settings>Store...tap the ID shown...sign out...then sign back in with your old ID...update the apps, then sign out again & sign back in with your new ID. Is this what you're doing?
There are only two ways to fix this: 1. Delete any content obtained with your old ID, then re-purchase with your new ID, or 2:
Go here:
https://expresslane.apple.com/Issues.action
Ask for assistance, and ask that the content obtained with your old ID be transfered to your new ID. If iTunes support agrees to do this, they will add the content to your download queue. -
trying to hook up preowned airpoirt extreme. asking for password for selected wireless device. would there be a password from previous owner?
A "hard reset" will do the same thing.
Make sure that the AirPort Extreme is powered on
Hold in the reset button for a few seconds and the amber light will begin to blink more quickly. Keep holding the reset button when you see this for another 4-5 seconds and release
Allow 25-30 seconds for the AirPort Extreme to restart to a slow, blinking amber light
Open Macintosh HD > Applications > Utilities > AirPort Utility and click Continue to follow the guided setup -
Asking for password for keychain access, but won't accept my password... What's up with this?
Restarted my MacBook just now and it's got a continuous stream of pop ups asking for password for keychain access, won't accept my password, won't go away (cancel), any suggestions.
Hello Al323,
Thank you for the details of the issue you are experiencing with Keychain Access on your Mac. I found a couple of articles I suggest for the issue you described.
Your keychain uses your the same password as your login password. If it is not accepting that password, I recommend running the Keychain First Aid using the steps in this article:
Mac OS X 10.6: Solving problems with keychains
http://support.apple.com/kb/PH7296
If you are still repeatedly seeing a prompt to enter your Keychain Access password, you may need to reset your keychain. This will create a new keychain so any saved passwords on the old keychain will not be available, and you will need to enter them when accessing sites for the first time again. Follow the steps in the article below to create a new keychain:
OS X: Keychain Access asks for keychain "login" after changing login password
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1631
Thank you for using Apple Support Communities.
Best,
Sheila M. -
cant update apps on my mac or iphone4. asks for password for another account i had on a dell notebook. either i forgot the pass word or its not taking it . i can download apps and music. how can i update apps on my mac and iphone 4?
I had the same problem today and was able to resolve it without having to do a restore or reset. The problem had something to do with my mail accounts. The upgrade reset my mail settings, switching both my gmail and my .mac mail to "archive all mail". I went into the General Settings, disabled that setting, and resynced the phone. The "other" storage allottment dropped back down to less than a gig.
Before you restore or reset, I would try that first. -
A friend bought second hand macbook air mid 2011 with crossed circle on the display and give to me to try to recover the system, I tried recovery from partition and same thing occured, after internet recovery it stays the same-crossed circle after reboot, then we tried to boot from USB with mac os 10.8 on it, it installs something,like it has being finishing installation, rebootes, and now it asks for password for boot option.We have no idea what that password could be.What happened!!!
I forgot to write down my computer specs:
iMac 27 Mid 2011
2.7 GHz Intel Core i5
4 GB 1333 MHz DDR3
AMD Radeon HD 6770M 512 MB
OS X 10.9.2 -
How come I'm not asked for password for every app purchase, app auto downloads once I tap install, not good when my kids start buying apps because they are not asked for password, help!!
Thank you for the help, have sorted it through Restrictions in General settings now : )
No more mysterious app purchases on my c.card now thank god !!
You would think they would set as default that Password was required - Imediatly . But they know there likely to get more purchases the way the default set it..
Thanks again for prompt reply!!! -
ITunes ask me for password for backed up file, and i never set up any password
iTunes ask me for password for backed up file, and i never set up any password, now i can't restore my backed up files to my phone!! please help this is really annoying!!! please help.
For some reason I cannot post a new question so adding to this one.
I have the same problem with the voicemail password. I have a voicemail password, I don't need to reset it - but I want to get rid of it. Did you get a satisfactory answer?
VERY irritating to suddenly have to put in a password to hear voicemails. What is up with iPhone? I hope someone can help me. -
I recently changed my wifi password at home and now my iphone will not connect. It will not ask me for a password just says will not connect to network. Advice on how to get iphone to ask network password for wifi?
First, try tapping on the network in the Wi-Fi settings and then tap "forget this network". Then reselect the network in the main Wi-Fi settings screen and see if will then ask for a password. If not, try resetting the Network Settings in the General -> Reset section and then reconnecting to your W-iFi.
Hope this helps. -
I keep having trouble with my pro it keep asking me password for my yahoo account
I keep having trouble with my pro it keep asking me password for my yahoo account
These are user-to-user forums, you are not talking to Apple here - I've asked the hosts to remove your phone number from your post.
If you can't remember the answers then go to Express Lane and select 'iTunes' from the list of 'products' in the middle of the screen.
Then select 'iTunes Store', and on the next screen select 'Account Management'
Next choose 'iTunes Store Account Security' and fill in that you'd like your security questions/answers reset.
You should get an email reply within about 24 hours (and check your Spam folder as well as your Inbox) - but some recent posts are saying that Apple have temporarily suspended the reseting of security question/answers whilst account security processes are improved, so it may take longer. -
When I sign in to iTunes store, asked for password for someone else's Apple ID
When I sign into iTunes store, asked for password for someone else's account
Katiakayy wrote:
I have the exact same problem. I recently upgraded my iphone from a 4s to a 5c and I never used a different Apple ID. What should I do now so that my Apple ID shows up instead of someone else's?
A ssuggested above...
On iPhone:
Settings > iTunes & App Store > Apple ID: > sign out then sign in the correct Apple ID. -
Reset iPhone asks for Apple-AD and then asks for password for other Apple-ID (my old, before I changed the email adress). Never had this problems before and I have reseted it once or twice since changing emailadress on the Apple-ID.
sckofusernames77 wrote:
but it doesn't ask you if you have one or say that you won't be able to log on without one.
Well, it does say on http://www.apple.com/icloud/setup/pc.html in step 1: "To enable iCloud on your Windows PC (Windows 7 or 8 required), first set up iCloud on your other devices, then install the iCloud Control Panel for Windows.
If you're trying to back up your device to iCloud, that doesn't have anything to do with your computer. You back up to iCloud over wifi. All you do is go to Settings>iCloud, sign in with your Apple ID to create your account, scroll down and tap Storage & Backup, then turn on iCloud Backup. You can then tap Back Up Now at the bottom to start the back up manually, or lock the screen and connect it to your charger and it will back up automatically every day.
Enabling the iCloud control panel on your PC only allows you to sync your iCloud data with your PC, not to back up your device to iCloud. -
Mail continues to ask me for password for deleted Mail account
Hey guys, I've deleted an old mail account in both the Mail application itself, as well as the Accounts folder in my system preferences. Nonetheless, Mail continues to ask me to type in the password for this old gmail account.
It's gotten so annoying that I'm not able to use mail anymore and have to use Thunderbird, which is ok, but I love how everything syncs.
A funny thing.... This is the computer that syncs with my iPhone 4s, and yet I have no issues with the mail accounts on the iPhone.
I imagine it's some old bit of data somewhere in the back of my system, but I don't know much about how these things work.
I can provide images of how my Accounts in system preferences works and how that compares to the error message if you need it. Also I can tell you anything else you need to know.
This problem is so annoying...can you help?
AdamHi, here's a link that helped me: http://support.apple.com/kb/TS3981?viewlocale=en_US&locale=en_US
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My iMac asks for password to use calendar agent, iMessage, Calendar agent, etc., about every 15 minutes. Is there a cure to stop this? I have tried many things and nothing has worked.
Its ok....sorted!!!
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IPad asking for Password for iCloud- FRUSTRATED
I got an iPad mini as a graduation present and I have had absolutely no problems...yet.
I just moved for my job and was settling in to sync up the iPad with the new Wi-Fi password and as soon as I unlock the screen it is prompting me for my password for FaceTime. I am entering the proper password, but the screen continues to pop up.
I have been going through this discussions and trying all the different troubleshooting advice posted by others but none of them are working. I tried to restore to factory settings but the message continues to pop up, I don't have the ability to do anything else on the device. I'm getting so frustrated and I'm about ready to throw the **** thing at the wall.
I already restored it to my iTunes in hopes to restore it, but it says I need to turn off the "Find my iPad" option of iCloud, but I can't even do that because of the pop up!
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