PING - Error 5002 (unknown error)

Same thing for me. Since a week maybe more, I have this "error 5002" pop-up. I just send an e-mail to Apple support. Hope I will have an answer. The funny thing is that I can login from my Itouch but not from any of my computers.

I had a similar problem that I was able to fix. I was getting the 5002 error whenever I tried to access Ping > Recent Activity. I was still able to visit other Ping links though. Finally I went through each of the "People I Follow" and found one that gave me the same 5002 error, so I clicked "Stop Following" for that artist and now everything works.

So far I have figured out it directly related to pre purchases, at least that is in my case anyway. I had pre-ordered Salt but when i went to download I received error 5002 and it said to try later. I tried for two days. I ran disk utilities and repaired permissions that did nothing, then I ran Disk Warrior, it showed the directory was all messed up. Still nothing, so I tried to just download Salt directly and sure enough it worked just fine and it is downloading now. As I said I believe it is related to the pre- purchase somehow. All of that is from an iTunes dedicated mac mini, nothing else is on that computer, no email at all.

Me to. Anyone an Idea?

Same problem here, was never able to use Ping and keep getting this same message ever since upgrading iTunes.

I can't actually "Like" anything in my Ping. I keep getting unknown error -609. anyone have any idea what that is and how i can resolve it?

I had the same error and turned on 'ping sidebar' (under view) and the error went away...

Great. It helps, thanks.