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safari forgets username/pass data
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Mac Enthusiast
Join Date: Oct 1999
Location: Boulder, CO
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For a few of the sites I use regularly I had saved my username and password using the feature built into Safari. A few weeks ago, Safari apparently forgot the data for these sites -- they still showed up in the list in the prefs, but wouldn't auto fill. If I delete that entry in the prefs, Safari won't ask me to save that data the next time I use the site. I have now deleted all of my username/password forms data and turned the feature off and on again, with no improvement. I know this could be potentially caused by several different issues, but I don't think it's a problem with the sites themselves because the same sites work on my other Mac running all the same software versions.
Has anyone else seen this? I haven't tried just deleting the Safari prefs yet, but that will probably be the next step.
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Join Date: Jan 2001
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BUMP!!
I'm currently having a similar problem. Its possible that I may have clicked the "Never for this site" button on the save password prompt at one point while accessing a particular site. Is there any way to reset the status? or the autofill prefs for that site. Anyone know where this is kept?
TIA
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Look at the source code for the site.
Look for a line that says something like allow autocomplete - or something similar. If this is set to false then Safari will respect this coding and not allow autofilling.
At a guess I am thinking bank website???
Hopefully this is the answer. If you search the apple site it is hidden there somewhere.
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Huh -- well I'll be. It's odd that those sites worked for a while and then just stopped. But I'm sure that's because they added this non-autofill tag or line or whatever in the code. While I can see how it might be a security risk, it wasn't for me. Too bad.
Originally posted by _?_:
Look at the source code for the site.
Look for a line that says something like allow autocomplete - or something similar. If this is set to false then Safari will respect this coding and not allow autofilling.
At a guess I am thinking bank website???
Hopefully this is the answer. If you search the apple site it is hidden there somewhere.
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Only reason why I knew this, is because it was bugging the shite out of me as well. 
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Join Date: Nov 2001
Location: Oregon
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Here’s a program, called Autocomplete Always On!, which will patch WebCore (Safari’s HTML engine) to ignore the flag.
Enjoy! 
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Last edited by Rainy Day; Apr 8, 2006 at 05:06 AM.
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