This will just be a list of passwords so at least you have a master list somewhere and not stored on your computer(s)/drive(s). You could include hints (that only you could recognize/decipher) that would tell you which accounts/websites went with which passwords. In this email account, create an email to the same account and put your passwords in it but do not include the accounts/websites they are for. In other words, you are setting up an anonymous email account. Setup a Yahoo or Hotmail account with all fake information (Name, address, b-day, etc.) with a “handle/name/email address” that has nothing to do with you but you can recall. Let me add a suggestion that I have come up with for storing passwords where you can access them from anywhere. Theres only 2 ways your backup has a password: Either you checked Encrypt Backup, or you have an MS Exchange corporate email account on your phone, and your Exchange administrator installed a security profile that requires backups to be encrypted. Good luck to all if you have to go through this because this has not been a fun few days. iTunes does not set passwords on its own. I still have no idea what made iTunes go back to an ancient password.I have never checked the box in iTunes to encrypt the iPhone backup. When I have performed previous upgrades to the iOS I have never been prompted for a password when restoring the data.Somehow it popped into my head and after trying hundreds (no I'm not kidding) of passwords, success! I had changed that password soon after creating it and have since changed it several times. For some reason it was the original iTunes password I had setup when I first got the iPhone 4 and iTunes 17 months ago. Well I finally got through with the correct password.
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