"Do you want iTunes to accept incoming network connections?"

I just installed Snow Leopard on my Mac and this happened to me as well. I went to the Apple store because I had several problems including this one happen. The Apple Genius was stuck on this problem. I will try this, cause its very annoying to have all your settings removed and this pop up window appear every time you log on.

All I wanted from SL was the 22GB of HD space back. ((sigh))

Well I am seeing this problems as well. It also happens with another app I have. This started once I had to go get another DSL modem because my other one went out. Now I get this same message when ITunes starts up and also Ch-Ching, but when I try to connect with my iPhone to iTunes with Remote.app from the iPhone or Ch-Ching from my iPhone, they do not see that my iPhone is connected. Qwest is of no help here at all, they have no clue what I am talking about of course. This all worked fine until I put this new modem on and now it does not work. Does any one have any ideas on this?

I have been seeing this problem for several weeks now, and I think that you may be onto something with the CleanMyMac correlation. This link http://superuser.com/questions/42776/itunes-app-to-accept-incoming-network-conne ctions indicates that any modification of the package will trigger the message due to a verification feature. I tried the test shown on this page and indeed I get the broken link response:
/Applications/iTunes.app/: a sealed resource is missing or invalid
/Applications/iTunes.app/Contents/Resources/iTunesASUHelper: resource modified
/Applications/iTunes.app/Contents/Resources/iTunesHelper.app/Contents/MacOS/iTun esHelper: resource modified
So I think that removing the binary file may be the cause. I'll live with the problem rather than bloat my HD.

I think I had iTunes 9.1.1 installed in my MacBook Pro. And this message always appeared for me. Today I installed iTunes 9.2 and the problem persist. Here this message is directly related with "Sharing" option. If I uncheck "Share my library on my local network" the message go away. But If I mark this the message com back again.

I didn't change my icon or anything else.

I thought that this problem would be solved with an iTunes update, but I was wrong. 😟

hey I had the same problem with iTunes 9.2. I solved it though.. it might sound a bit of a hocus-pocus but what the ****: it worked. Here's what you gotta do:

1. Drag iTunes.app to the Trash.
2. Empty the Trash
3. DO NOT delete any other iTunes-related file as you may lose all your data (preferences, library, songs, iphone apps and whatnot). You may want to restart your computer at this point, but it is not necessary.
4. Download iTunes again. Install it... and you're done. It may ask you to accept incoming connections but it'll be only once... after that it won't bother you again...

I hope this works for you!

iTunes is a code-signed application and if you clean it using CleanMyMac or remove the useless binaries from it in any other way - your System Firewall will be showing you that message (topic) every time you launch iTunes.

That is why CleanMyMac has a separate setting for such cases in the Advanced tab of its Preferences. You can just disable the cleanup of code-signed apps to resolve the issue. That's it.

This worked for me! Thanks mrcoxon. I had been having this issue since upgrading to 9.2 and it was driving me batty. No more!

@Don Trammell

Excellent advice!

Thanks mrcoxon, worked a treat, easiest solution every, has to be ha ha

I was having this issue too, very irritating. Having read all the posts decided to start with the removal of iTunes and a reinstall and it worked perfectly.

Used this support page.. only need the first 20 steps

http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1224

Jonathan

This seems to have fixed it for me as well. Thanks!

I have tried everything in here and I still have the problem. I've had this problem since iTunes 8 and I've just about to throw it all out the window.

Uninstalled iTunes 8 before installing version 9 when it came out - problem persist
Uninstalled iTunes 9 before installing Version 10 yesterday - problem persist
deleted that com.apple.alf.plist file. reboot. nothing changed.

The only way to stop the stupid message is turning off the firewall (i prefer firewall on) - turn it back on again there is that stupid message again. its something that shouldn't be happening, had a gut full of it.

It doesn't work for me with the terminal command. But that's probably because i've changed the iTunes icon with my own: http://wearebigger.com

The CleanMyMac suggestion doesn't do the trick either.

pascalim wrote:
hey guys, I already filed a bug report. An engineer got in touch with me and here's the steps I was to do:

- Open terminal and enter "codesign -v /Applications/iTunes.app"

If the output of this command is anything but "Valid on disk", uninstall iTunes and reinstall it. This fixed my problem.

Thank you very much!
This fixed my problem too! I have to mention that I have tried everything else posted on discussions and nothing else worked permanently.