Hi Alan, Good to hear you are all set-up and working now.
Just one thing to remember if you are thinking of deleting the ³spare² Apple ID. If you have ever ³purchased² anything through iTunes music, TV, iPhone apps (including free music and apps) they will be associated with the Apple ID you were signed-in by when you purchased/downloaded them. If that was the ³spare² ID and you then delete it - you will probably get messages saying you are not authorised to play/use them. I got caught out with a similar thing recently (not a deleted ID, in my case, but an unauthorised laptop): New iphone, lots of apps downloaded through my desktop iMac. Go on a field trip to Dryandra, where mobile coverage is marginal (climb to the top of the hill for reception). Taking photos with phone so take my laptop to back up photos. I never use the laptop for iTunes purchases and didn¹t have any ³purchased² music/video on it, so I had never ³authorised it² - however this never even occurred to me. So, I take some photos and connect the phone to the laptop to backup the photos. iTunes fires up and tells me the computer is not authorised for the apps on the iPhone. I cannot authorise the computer I can put in the account ID and password but it needs to connect to the net to verify and there is nowhere to connect to the internet for miles around!! So iTunes proceeds to delete the ³unauthorised² apps from my iPhone (even though they were all free apps anyway!!) It was particularly annoying as a couple were photography apps that I was wanting to try out. Of course, once I got back home I could re-synch the apps from my iMac, connect to the net and authorise the laptop (for future use) and everything was OK again. However for the whole trip my iPhone was stripped of all apps except the pre-loaded ones. Of course, my problem was not like your situation however, it serves as a reminder that even free ³purchases² are associated with your Apple ID/account and so, if you have more than one ID/account then you need to keep track of what is associated with each account. Cheers Neil -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: [email protected] on 11/2/11 11:14 AM, Ronda Brown at [email protected] wrote: > > Excellent to hear good news Alan, > > > > On 11/02/2011, at 10:25 AM, Alan Smith wrote: > >> Joy and jubilation! >> >> Thanks Carlo and Ronni. I now have two working Apple IDs with different >> usernames and email addresses. I used one of the IDs to complete >> registration with iTunes Store, for iTunes Home Sharing, and for the Apple >> TV. I understand that I can cancel the ³spare² Apple ID by phoning Apple >> Care (can¹t be done on-line). >> >> I suspect that iTunes requires an 8 character password. My original Apple >> ID had a 6 character password. > > At least 8 characters now. This change happened back in August 2010 after a > Security risk: > "Apple¹s online support discussion forums were taken offline after the site > was apparently targeted by a malicious attack. The company has also increased > its Apple ID account security (which is shared by iTunes) following earlier > account fraud." > > Apple increased the security of iTunes accounts, requiring users to verify > their account information when they log into new devices (and associate their > iTunes account with that Mac, Apple TV, iPhone, iPod Touch, or iPad), and now > requires that new iTunes account passwords include at least 8 characters with > mixed capitalization. > Logging into certain devices, including Apple TV, now prompts users to update > their password to the new minimum security standard. > > <http://www.garagesalepreview.com/apple-id-security-bolstered-forums-taken-off > line-after-apparent-hack/> > >> When I re-entered the (original) username with a new gmail.com >> <http://gmail.com> address I used an 8 character password instead of the ³at >> least 6² required by Apple. Everything proceeded normally from there. >> Other causes may have been the inability of Apple to resolve the email >> address verification process when two IDs have the same email address; and >> corruption of one username when I attempted to change it. >> >> I am most impressed with the Apple TV. It is connected via my home wireless >> network. I watched an 8 minute movie and listened to Beethovens¹ Moonlight >> Sonata. No buffering delays noticed. Both files were on iMac internal >> drive. Will try a full length movie when I get time to see if data transfer >> is a problem with a large file. I will also test access to movies on a >> daisy-chained Firewire external HD. Yes, I had to connect to the iTunes >> store during the ATV setup but no problem with then selecting NO to renting >> or buying movies on-line. I now want ATV version 3 to provide USB and >> Firewire inputs for direct portable hard drive and thumb drive input! >> > > About Apple TV (1st generation) software updates: > <http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3187> > > Cheers, > Ronni > > 17" MacBook Pro Intel Core i7 > 2.66GHz / 8GB / 1067 MHz DDR3 / 500GB Serial ATA Drive @ 7200rpm > > OS X 10.6.6 Snow Leopard > Windows 7 Ultimate (under sufferance) > > -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> Unsubscribe - <mailto:[email protected]>
