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10.5.2 update still does not fix auto fill in

Apr 1, 2008 12:46AM PDT

I'm no power user, but do have to fill in repeatedly & auto fill in was meesed up with Leopard & has not been fixed. Gads, am I ever ripe for that to be fixed. Come on, Apple. Sophistication is nice, but so is getting simple things to work, & the latter is much more common, anyway.

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(NT) Where do you have the problem?
Apr 1, 2008 1:09AM PDT
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OK then,
Apr 1, 2008 3:10AM PDT

what are the symptoms you get with the not working Autofill?

Wrong information or no information at all?

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Sorry that I seem to be unable to focus in on the precise
Apr 1, 2008 3:32AM PDT

symptoms that you would like to diagnose. Sometimes I get partial memory recall. To a lesser extent I infrequently get full memory recall. And likewise, really frustrating when I fairly freqently get no response to the auto fill at all


Again, frustration because it worked so well in previous Mac OS versions.

No, it is definitely not wrong information.

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universally across auto fill in situations, although the
Apr 1, 2008 3:10AM PDT

degree of effect itself, is not uniform. I sometimes get partial auto fill in results, but mostly no auto fill response whatsoever. I run into the auto fill situation as more than one particular place. The one I frequent most often in due to a large volume of used DVD purchases on Amazon.

(guilty of getting carried away into establishing a film library)

However, the auto fill in function crops up frequently. It is frustrating because it a feature that basically worked well in prior iterations of Mac OS, & now it doesn't.

Sorry to say any response to me has to be couched in elementary terms as I am more technophobe than technophile.

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Try this:
Apr 1, 2008 9:51PM PDT

Reset all your Autofill information and start again:

To turn off AutoFill and delete saved information:
Choose Safari > Preferences.
Click the AutoFill tab.
Deselect ?Using info from my Address Book card? and ?Other forms.?
Next to ?Other forms,? click Edit. You?ll see a list of websites where you normally fill in information such as your name and email address.
Highlight individual websites and then click Remove, or click Remove All.
Click Done.

Now make sure that ALL the information for you is correct in Address Book.
Turn Autofill back on and try again.

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Thanks. I just did the procedure as best I thought I can.
Apr 2, 2008 2:12AM PDT

High hopes for auto fill.

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Safari Auto-fill problems
Apr 19, 2008 11:32AM PDT

I have had the same problem. Safari asks me if I would like to keep a password for a site, but it doesn't do it. When I go to Safari preferences and look at autofill, there is no column for passwords.

This happened to me once before. I took it to the Apple store and I think they re-installed the operating system. Resetting Safari did not help. I also tried totaling re-installing Safari last night and that didn't help either. Are there any other ideas out there?

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Same issue, different day.
Jun 10, 2008 8:40AM PDT

Is anyone at Apple listening? Reinstall the OS? lol! They should get their act together on these issues, this is sounding almost as bad as Microsoft.

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Sorry but it may not be Apple here.
Jun 10, 2008 11:14AM PDT

I noted a fill in or password issue recently. Digging into the HTML code of the page we find the web page was telling the browser to not remember content.

How could this be an Apple fault?
Bob