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jamiem1987

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Sep 25, 2009
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Hi anyone else had to re-enter passwords in internet accounts this morning? All my google accounts (I have a lot as i'm a web developer) are prompting me to resign in via web browser to authenticate which is really annoying as i can't remember the password for most!!

Anyone else had the same? Ok on iphone...
 
Hello there, I recently experienced this issue. Specifically whenever I logged back into my laptop after it was in Sleep, my desktop would "restart" and I had to reauthenticate my Google accounts. This would happen every day for some 2-3 weeks before I turned off a security setting I toggled 2-3 weeks prior. Here's what I did to fix my sleep issue + Google re-authentication issues:

System Preferences > "Click the lock to make changes." > Advanced (bottom right) > Untick the box for "Log out after __ minutes of inactivity"

I originally enabled this in case I stepped away from my laptop while at school or work. I didn't realize that my Google accounts and my session would be entirely logged out even during Sleep mode. I haven't had this problem since disabling the feature.

Hope this helps!
 
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