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Archives => 2003 => Topic started by: David on September 04, 2003, 05:35:47 PM

Title: I've lost ALL my identities and passwords
Post by: David on September 04, 2003, 05:35:47 PM

What can have happened?
I am moving home (about 130 miles) and, in readiness, have moved my equipment into a spare room.
Now, I find that my IE Internet "homepage" defaults to Apple.com (when it was previously blank and inactive) and EVERY id and password/passnumber is no longer recognised - even with my internet banking.

Previously, the auto-enter feature remembered everything and I had no problems.

Now, I have to re-new (and change) all my identities.

It was a problem getting into TechSurvivors to reply to those who had helped on my earlier posting.

PLUS, every time I choose 'enter' or 'next' on ANY internet site (even HERE!) I get a security warning that I am "submitting a post that is not secure".

I've done nothing other than move the whole system from one room to another.

How come I've lost everything and, how do I re-construct a status which I've taken for granted (forgotten about) for several years?

Regards

David L.

Title: I've lost ALL my identities and passwords
Post by: ljocampo on September 04, 2003, 07:55:23 PM

From the symptoms you describe, it sounds like your IE's pref file got currupted and IE created a new one.  Did you backup your data?

Title: I've lost ALL my identities and passwords
Post by: kps on September 04, 2003, 08:48:49 PM

Also sounds like something or some one deleted all your browser "cookies"...

Title: I've lost ALL my identities and passwords
Post by: krissel on September 04, 2003, 08:58:40 PM

This is going way out here but do you possibly have more than one system on that machine, like on different partitions?  If so it is possible the move could have made it lose the PRAM setting which picks the startup disk and you could be on a different system preference folder so IE isn't using the regular prefs from the normally used system.

OK, I know that is stretching things some but it is possible...