What worked to find my backup encryption password that I didn't set!

As so many are dealing with, went to set-up new iphone 5 from my iphone 4 backup that was very important to me. I got the dreaded backup password hault. I tried everything! Different pc didn't work, nothing but a circle of nothing without that password! I DID NOT set a password, and don't care what anyone says, I'm 100% sure I didn't!! It is a glitch! If you ever do one backup without being sure the encryption box is unchecked on the summary page that comes up after clicking on your device name in the side list of iTunes, you are stuck! If you didn't purposely check it and pick your password, it somehow randomly picks one from somewhere that relates to you. I know it seems as tho that isn't possible for program to assign a random password that just so happens to relate to you, but it does. I've set many of passwords in my life, and have NEVER/would ever use that one! I've never had this problem previously! After getting an official nothing can be done from all levels of Apple support, I took advice on forums of using the elcomsoft software. I read that the free trial gives you the first 2 letters. So, I downloaded the free trial of elcomsoft. It took just few minutes to download, it was super easy. You open the software, choose backup, pick your backup from the list (it will show with a lock beside it), then whatever button tells it to go (don't remember what button said but its dummy proof). About halfway thru, it showed "li..". Four character starting with li, well that was obviously my name "lila". I didn't even run it all the way to verify if it gives you more than 1st two letters. That was it!! I tried everything I could imagine including window login and lock screen code for many hours before that with no luck. My whole family uses basically same password for everything with some variation if they require a capital or character. So, I know I didn't set it as that. So, try the free trial of elcomsoft!!

Are you trying to restore from an encrypted backup or are you trying to make an encrypted backup?
If the backup you are trying to restore from is encrypted, you will have no choice but to restore to factory settings instead.
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If you encrypt an iPhone backup in iTunes and then forget your password, you will not be able to restore from backup and your data will be unrecoverable. If you forget the password, you can continue to back up and use the device, however you will not be able to restore the encrypted backup to any device without the password. You do not need to enter the password for your backup each time you back up or sync.
If you cannot remember the password and want to start again, you can use a SmartKey iTunes Backup Password Recovery to unlock iTunes backup password at first. Check out http://www.recoverlostpassword.com/products/itunes-backup-password-recovery.html for more details.

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I just updated my iOS (from 4.2 to 6.0) and let the iPod store my backup information on my computer, encrypted. Like surely many before me, I do not know what the password is to get my encrypted data back. I don't remember ever entering a password for this. In several other inquiries online, people claim they never set a password. But I know I am forgetful and people can be presumptive, SO:
Can anyone share with me some information on WHEN or WHETHER this password is saved? When it is saved, does it say specifically that you're setting a password for the backup thing? (If not, what is the form where you enter the new password that will become the backup encryption password?) Is this only a practice implemented from a certain iPod/iPhone generation onward; would someone who purchased a 4th-gen iPod touch not be initially asked to create this password and someone from a year later be asked? Lastly, if in fact those inquiries I mentioned are correct, does Apple just scour your iPod for a password it can use for this purpose, and if so, is there any pattern at all to this that I can use to figure out my password?
Thanks for reading (and for answering? ),
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When you select "Encrypt ... backup" you get this dialog:
The password can be added to the keychain, however, the password may have been one-way encrypted and is not retrivable.

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However I have forgotten the backup encryption password so I deleted all the backups on iTunes, hoping that it would allow me to reset the backups without the encryption. Is it possible to remove the encyrption without deleting my iTunes? I would like to create a backup from scratch without removing music and videos saved on my iTunes. Help?

Check your iKeychain. The password may be listed there. Mine was listed under an IP address and user name to my old work computer. I had used my phone to access work emails (government) that were encrypted. I didn't actually select the option to encrypt my backup itself but it did require a password when I went to restore. The password ended up being one I set up when I set up my email account to my phone and viewed those emails, not one I actually set for iTunes directly related to the backup. Once in iKeychain (Safari, Passwords & Autofill) I was able to view a list of all passwords ever used on my phone and had every intention of trying every single password one by one, but it ended up being the first one listed. Hopefully this helps.

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HT201472 can you guys please help me find my ipod because i lost it a week ago and i cant find it i've been trying really hard to find it but i cant cause i didn't set up find my phone before i lost it so my question is can you help me someway here my

can you guys please help me find my iPod because i lost it a week ago and i cant find it I've been trying really hard to find it but i cant cause i didn't set up find my phone before i lost it so my question is can you help me someway or somehow because my iPod i love it i would always take pictures with my friends and i have all my memories in it so i don't know where it is for all i know it could be on the street getting ready to get ran over because the last time i ever saw it was on last Sunday when i went to my cousins house when we were leaving i grabbed something to eat then i sat at the table then i left but i swear i had it in my pocket when i left but i didn't so i asked my cousin if he could look for it and he said sure so he started looking for it but didn't find anything and so i lost it sense and i asked my dad if i could get a new one and he said in a couple of years but i want that iPod back it has all my memories in it it's really special to me and i'm really desperate so please help me someway somehow anyway just help me please i don't know what else to do but beg for someone to help me because I've tried looking for it in my car in my room in my coats and nothing i tried looking for it on the website find my iPhone/iPod/iPad and it didn't help so please help me i beg of you if you are reading this and don't care you really are heartless because a little 12 year old girl can't find the most precious thing she got from her father 1 year ago and if you are reading this and you have a heart please help me find it if you do want to help me find it****
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You are not addressing Apple here. We are all just users like yourself
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No app on the iOS device is required.
- If you previously turned on FIndMyiPod/iPhone/iPad on the iOS device in Settings>iCloud and wifi is on and connected or cellular data is on and connected for, on a computer browser go to iCloud: Find My iPhone, sign in and go to FIndMyiPhone. If the iPod has been restored it will never show up or continue to show off-line.
- You can also wipe/erase the iOS device and have the device play a sound via iCloud.
iCloud: Erase your device
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- Apple will do nothing without a court order
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- iOS: How to find the serial number, IMEI, MEID, CDN, and ICCID number

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I've forgotten my backup encryption password

Please help me. I must have added a password for my backup encryption on iTunes years ago and now have no idea what it is. I have tried everything I would have thought it was but none work. I upgraded my iPhone 4S' software to iOS7 yesterday but theres something wrong and the final bootup stops halfway and hangs. I wanted to restore from backup but don't know the password. It gets worse as my iPhone 5C arrives today and I'm guessing I'll need this password to setup the new phone with all my data.
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No way that iknow of. The Apple acticle is very clear:
If you cannot remember the password and want to start again, you will have to do a full software restore and when prompted by iTunes to select the backup to restore from, choose Set up as a new device.
From:
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1766

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