NOT for KiltedTim, whose only fault was trying to inject some common sense in this, most embarrassing, thread.
Oh, man. I'm laughing so hard I almost want to thank everyone in this thread.
I love how KiltedTim is the only one providing the actual reason behind this problem and the entitled masses just can't deal with such a simple fact like they might be the source of the problem and that that's OK.
Yes, 14 pages of people that have at one point or another mistyped or incorrectly enabled a password and didn't pay attention on what they were doing. 14 pages of people that suddenly months or years later find out something wrong and can't fathom it's their fault to begin with, assume that and move on.
And then there's the absolute ridiculousness of greebojoe making stuff up to try and convince everyone he's got some imaginary credentials he figures makes what he's saying any less nonsensical.
"I know how databases work" <- REALLY, dude? Because in that and following posts you're essentially demonstrating how little you know about this subject (which is NOT about databases but, if it was, wouldn't work that way).
No, people. Everyone in this thread has ended up finding the password used is either an old password, a boyfriend/girlfriend password, the user's password in Windows, their password in uppercase, their password without a specific character, etc. Come on, can't you really see how the only thing that can thread all these together is having put a password at one point incorrectly and then forgetting about it or remembering incorrectly? When mostly everyone says they didn't check the checkbox what they're really saying is:
-"I don't remember ever checking the checkbox"
-"I remember unchecking the checkbox"
If you checked the encryption, did a sync, unchecked it and sync again you'd have two backups, one of them encrypted, to which you can revert at any point (knowingly or not). A restore might choose that backup and you might not realize that one is encrypted until you get the password. You might also not remember you had to set a password years or months before because you're inputting passwords all the time. You might have thought it was for the app store, for windows, for authentication as admin, etc.
NO. YOUR LOCAL ENCRYPTED BACKUPS CAN'T EVER BE WITH AN OLD PASSWORD SUPPOSEDLY STORED IN APPLE SERVERS.
NO. APPLE DOESN'T STORE PASSWORDS. IT CAN'T EVER HAVE YOUR PASSWORD BUT WITH A DIFFERENT CAPITALIZATION OR MISSING CHARACTERS. ***IT DOESN'T WORK LIKE THAT***
And, please, stop pretending you know about what you say. You may know how to program and yet have absolutely no clue about how itunes, itunes encryption, ios backups or Apple servers work. You'll end up looking like an arrogant buffon, trying to belittle those that actually have a clue and then mocking their supposedly mediocre work,
