Encrypt Backup Password Problem

Thank you. That solved my problem.

I don't remember ever ticking the box to encrypt my iPhone backup and had no idea what the password was, but thanks to your tip I looked back as some old passwords I'd used for the iTunes store etc. and it was one of those (Lucky I had noted them down).

See:

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3057884

1234 worked for me some how.

Just found this topic Jul 25, 2009 12:20 PM... 2 years laters 15 July 2011, i have always the same problem ... 6GB of video in my trip are confined in a password i never set 😟 !

I tried open the Manifest.plist file under /Users/<user>i/Library/Application Support/MobileSync/Backup/ and search for:

IsEncrypted key (just below BackupKeyBag) and changed it to false. The restore from the backup worked but then iTunes couldn't read the

contents from my iPhone. Ended up restoring from the scratch 😟

what is the solution, somebod please heeeeelp!!

It was definitely my Windows password. No idea how, but try that!

Fixed with Elcomsoft Phone Password Breaker, for all of you who posted about this, I thank you! I almost resorted to just saying "eff it.. looks like I'm going back to a new phone" 3 hours of researching before I gave up though. Finally stumbled on this forum.

What I did: (I own Windows 7)

Downloaded the Elcomsoft Phone Password Breaker, program for free.

Made a .txt file on Notepad, typed in a huge list of every single password I could possibly remember from when I started making passwords on computers.

Opened up Elcomsoft, and hit the little green " + " sign, clicked "Wordlist attack" , and hit the other green " + " sign, and added my .txt file of all my passwords.

Set it to Maximum attack and clicked GO!

~One minute later it said "Password found!" and it gave me the first two digits, but I was able to guess by how long the password was.

Boom all my precious data is returned to me <3.

For all of you who have this problem I wish you luck, because I know how annoying it can be.

is there a similar version of this software for macs/osx

I don't know, sorry.

I encountered a very similar problem. I had deliberately turned on encrypted backup of my iPod Touch, but found that backups were taking forever and even stalling on several occasions. So in the middle of one of these stalled backups, I decided to uncheck the "Encrypt iPod Backup" box. It asked me for my password, and no matter how many times I entered what I was 99% sure was the right password, it was rejected every time.

I finally cancelled the backup completely (by swiping on the iPod screen), restarted the iPod and plugged it in again. Then, without the iPod being in the process of backing up, I clicked the "change password" button. I entered the "old" password (the same one I'd been trying before) and entered a new password, and it worked. An unencrypted backup commenced and finshed.

One (maybe not the only) bug here is that you can't change or access that iTunes control for toggling backup encryption while a backup is taking place. Very stupid that it erroneously reports an incorrect password at that point.

I upgraded my server, which hosts my iTunes, to Lion server a few weeks ago. It had removed a bunch of settings and I couldn't afford the time to test or reconfigure it, so I restored to a backup. After restoring to a backup from right before the upgrade, some strange things happened with iTunes. (I used a a more recent backup of the library. Didn't want to lose my playcounts!)

I never recalled setting the "Encrypt backup" for my iPhone, but it was checked. I'm meticulous about storing passwords in 1Password, so I couldn't figure out why there wasn't one. I tried all my passwords. Nothing.

I just installed the new iTunes (10.4.1) and when I plugged my iPhone in, bam! No more encrypted backup!

Not sure if this was a bug or I'm just going crazy, but this isn't a problem for me anymore.

(It is taking way longer to backup since I restored to Snow Leopard, though...)

Help!! There HAS to be a way! I have tried EVERY single password ever.

I had this encrypt password just appear yesterday ive been reading up on how to get rid of it. I was even going to throw the computer out the window. I thought i tried all my passwords that i remembered and nothing. Ive read every post on this discussion and tryed everyone solutions and nothing. Until i remembered my very first password to itunes and that was it. Im sorry if it doesnt help you but it did me and now its gone. Thank god