CANNOT buy photo book from Aperture 3.3.1

It's possible Apple's server was down when you tried. Like the message said, try again later.

I'm having the same problem. I've just created a book in Aperture but when it goes to the popup "Your Account Is Being Saved" I get the "Please try again later." error! I can't get passed the shipping address screen!

I've run into this before as well, although I can't remember the details exactly. One of the following errors was when I was either purchasing a book or something from iTunes, I just don't remember what went with what:

a. The password for my account wasn't up to Apple's new standards. After I "upgraded" my password all was well. Even though I got no warning about a substandard password when logging in and out during troubleshooting, the new password fixed it.

b. My billing address contained my 9 digit zip code and even though I got no warning or error about being invalid I could not purchase anything until I entered just my 5 digit zip code.

Weird I know, but these things corrected problems for me in the past.

I tried lots of things to try and solve this problem, they didn't work so created a new account with a different email and worked first time!

Hello,

I've had this problem, though with iPhoto, a couple of weeks ago.

What I found out is the following:

In System Preferences, Language & Text, Formats: Region must be set to the country you are in.

In many cases (for instance if you have adjusted the way time or date should be shown), Region has changed to "Custom" and apparently that confuses the store where you try to order your photo book.

If you, temporarily, change Region to the country you are in, it might solve the problem.

Kind regards,

emeu1

I had the same problem last week. I checked and rechecked every single information but it just didn't work. I kept getting "Please, try again later" message on the screen.

At the end I created a new account and it fixed the problem. So I'm a happy chap now. 🙂

Did you manage to get a solution? I am having excactly the same problem but can't seem to find a way around it. The Apple techies don't appear to know what to do either!

If you get as far as the address but that fails, its because your password no longer meets the requirements of the apple account. You have to go into iTunes and make your password impossible to remember, then try again.

Same issue ordering photo prints with error message

- Please try again later -

Solved as follows:

1. reset password (appleid.apple.com) according to Apple standards (i.e. they will let you know)

2. security question answers had to 6 characters or longer (oddly without saying so Apple...?)

Thats it. I really hate when things like this happens, you spend hours on blog sites when, really, I should be doing, well, something else..)

I had the same problem: when trying to log in with my existing Apple ID, I was presented with a pre-filled new account page, tried to complete it but would always fail to proceed at some point ("try again later"). I figured out something was wrong with my account, but couldn't guess what before reading this post. It seems the problem was that my answer to one of the three security questions was too short. I changed it on appleid.apple.com, and then could log into Aperture. So annoying the system wouldn't say I had to change it!

Like, you think people read "try again later" on their screen, and immediatly jump on the forums to ask everyone what it possibly means?

I had the same problem with Aperture 3.1.3 on Snow Leopard. I had to follow a couple of these answers! I had to both reset my Apple ID security questions to all have answers of 6 characters or more, AND change my region in System Preferences > Language & Text > Formats > Region to the same country as my shipping and/or billing address. I also changed my Apple ID password to follow the new security guidelines, but I'm not sure if this step was required.

Thanks to everyone posting what worked for them--I wouldn't get my book without you!

If you have the latest version of Aperture, you have to change your Apple-id password to at least 8 digits, and do as Oshihuna sais - all

of you security questions have to have an answer of at least 6 digits.

I had the same problem and it helped for me.

Good luck

While my situation is with ordering prints, and not books, through Aperture 3.4.3, I thought I'd add my experience in the event that the process is similar or the same and the jobs are uploaded to similar, or the same place(s)

I had a total of 180 picture I wanted to print. This full job failed several times - "Connection could not be . . .Please try again later." I don't remember the exact message, but it is the same as the others receive. Afew weeks agao, I took a batch of 71 or 72, of the 180, and the job completed successfully. Today, I first tried 99 of the remaining prints, which failed, then backed down to 89, and it succeeded. I then sent another batch with the remaining prints and it completed successfully. I checked region and ID info, but not security question responses, I'll admit, and it all looked OK.

I did some quick math and determined that the job that failed estimated to be about 60MB. The job that succeeded (89) was les than 55MB. So, in summary, I had success by reducing my job size, and keeping all other things equal, but am still not clear if it is the job size and/or print size (mine were not mixed, all 4x6) that presented a limitation. Or maybe, still it was something else.

Regardless, for those of you, and me eventually, wanting to send a book to print, if this is a job size limitation, it is a joke. I'm fairly sure I have seen complaints of this sort with iPhoto going back to 2007. The strange thing is, that there doesn't sem to be any definitive answers from Apple, or the media, or anyone about what causes this, and/or if/when it will/might be fixed. Very odd. Maybe it's just me, but since this is supposed to be a Pro App, and Pros would never tolerate this ambiguity, where do they/you all go for this kid of printing instead? I haven't heard much of that either. Very, very strange.