Q: iTunes store temporarily unavailable?

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Hey godofodd, thanks a lot buddy! Your fix did the trick

Thank you!  That worked for me and now I can sign in to the itunes store like always....Go figure!

Thanks alot! Worked for me

Here is how I solved it on my Macs as well as Windows.

Here is for the Mac:

- Quit iTunes

- Go to Safari and open Safari preferences (in the Safari/Preferences menu)

- Navigate to the privacy tab.

- Choose to "Always" block cookies (you can change that back once the issue is solved)

- Click "Details" below "Remove All Website Data"

- Type apple.com in the search field

- Select apple.com and click the remove button

- Check that the apple.com line does not re-appear (it shouldn't, but if it ever does, quit and relaunch Safari and start over)

- Quit Safari

- Launch iTunes

- Connect to your iTunes account

- Smile :-)

Here is for Windows 7 (must be similar for other Windows versions):

- Quit iTunes (and Safari if you have it)

- Openan Explorer window ("My Computer" for example)

- Well hidden in the upper bar under "Organize" choose "Folder and search options"

- In the "view" tab, make sure that "Show hidden files, folders and drives" is checked and click OK

- Navigate to C:\Users\YourUserName\AppData\Roaming\Apple Computer\iTunes\Cookies  or YourUserName\AppData\Roaming\Apple Computer\iTunes\Cookies if that is easier

- Delete everything in that folder

- (I am not sure this is necessary) you might want to also trash items in the YourUserName\AppData\Roaming\Apple Computer\Cookies folder

- Launch iTunes

- Connect to your iTunes account

- Smile :-)

Please tell me if that works for Mac and PC (I tried other things before those instructions so an extra step might have been involved)

Jérôme.

Thanks to Jerome (and godofodd) for this fix.  It worked well limiting the deletion of website data to apple.com. on my Mac (OS X 10.8.5, iTunes 11.1).

I found that you need to re-enable cookies in Safari (at least for third parties), otherwise you cannot authenticate to access account information even after you log in to the iTunes store.

Jerome

Thank you SOOOOOO much! Worked like a charm :-) Been driving me nuts!

Worked perfectly for me Jerome.  You rock!  Thanks.

thank you jerome

I'm able to get into the store, but the 'buy' button doesn't do anything. I havent been on the store for a few days, it just started today. This is really weird.

That "fix" didn't work for me...

Using on windows 7 and worked perfectly - thank you so much, it was driving me crazy. You're a star

wow this worked for my windows 7 PC, thanks so much

This solved my problem on a 10.8.3 machine!!  Thank you sooooo much!!!

"Anyways, based on your attempt to fix things Chris from within itunes I selected the create new account option & insread of following through with setting up a new ID I attempted to use the log in option at the top of the screen."

Dude you are a life saver that completely worked.