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Stop iTunes from polling for password at launch Apps
Thu, Jun 14 2007 at 7:30AM PDT • Contributed by: Saminthemiddle
A few days ago I downloaded a television show episode and closed iTunes before it was done downloading. Since that time, I wasn't able to start iTunes without it asking for my iTunes store login and password.

Apparently iTunes stores a .plist file at ~/Music » iTunes » iTunes Music » Downloads » list.plist which contains only an array of your pending downloads. When iTunes detects an entry in the array at startup, it attempts to connect to the iTunes store to complete the download ... which has already been completed.

Delete ~/Music » iTunes » iTunes Music » Downloads » list.plist to clear the issue.
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Stop iTunes from polling for password at launch
Authored by: simonpie on Thu, Jun 14 2007 at 9:00AM PDT
You could also just finish that download. You can choose "Check for purchases" From the Store menu to force itune fo finish interupted downloads.



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Stop iTunes from polling for password at launch
Authored by: George the Flea on Thu, Jun 14 2007 at 9:47AM PDT
The whole point of the hint is that iTunes is querying for downloads even after you've downloaded everything.

Thanks for the hint! I've been really annoyed the last couple days when every time iTunes opened it asked for my password, despite the fact that I'd downloaded the songs I'd bought several days ago.

Has anyone submitted a bug report to Apple about this?

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Stop iTunes from polling for password at launch
Authored by: jgarbers on Thu, Jun 14 2007 at 10:18AM PDT
This saved the day for me. I had had trouble downloading three or four cuts after upgrading my library to iTunes Plus right after it became available (servers were swamped, I guess) and iTunes has been asking for a password at startup ever since, even though the cuts had been downloaded successfully. Thanks!

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Stop iTunes from polling for password at launch
Authored by: ecbtln on Thu, Jun 14 2007 at 12:30PM PDT
thanks a lot, i recently submitted that bug to apple at bugreport.apple.com but like usual all they said was that they are already aware of the bug. I too first experienced the problem when upgrading to iTunes Plus.

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Stop iTunes from polling for password at launch
Authored by: ikioi on Thu, Jun 14 2007 at 2:46PM PDT
Aha! Thanks for the helpful hint.

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Stop iTunes from polling for password at launch
Authored by: bigglesworth on Thu, Jun 14 2007 at 5:29PM PDT
Saminthemiddle -- you kick butt! I didn't care so much about being prompted for a password but I figured it was a bug in iTunes. Thank god I didn't report it as such ;)

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Stop iTunes from polling for password at launch
Authored by: lextek on Thu, Jun 14 2007 at 6:44PM PDT
Where do I find this?

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Stop iTunes from polling for password at launch
Authored by: johnsawyercjs on Thu, Jun 14 2007 at 8:37PM PDT
Where do you find what?

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Authored by: nickv2002 on Fri, Jun 15 2007 at 12:39AM PDT
This fixed my problem. Thanks!

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Authored by: Bigc on Fri, Jun 15 2007 at 9:13AM PDT
Mine Polls but there is no .plist file in ~/Music (but I have Multiple Libraries)

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Authored by: FasTTr on Sat, Jun 16 2007 at 7:44AM PDT
On my Macbook Pro I deleted ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.iTunes.plist and it fixed the problem.

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Stop iTunes from polling for password at launch
Authored by: kevinashworth on Sat, Jun 23 2007 at 6:12AM PDT
Thank you! A big help.

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