But if you need to sync your photos back down from MobileMe because your iPhoto library doesn't have them, you can still do that before June If you don't see yourself already logged in on the left, click the plus sign and enter your username and password. Select the MobileMe account you want to use and then double click on each album in order to sync it back down to your computer.
There are also instructions for Aperture and older versions of iPhoto on Apple's support site. In addition to this, you can use Apple's Web app to download your Gallery contents. Apple says to click the "Adjust settings" button at the top of the page to make sure you allow downloading and click "Publish. The items we discuss above are all things you should be backing up so you can move them to another service.
But that's not all that's disappearing when Apple turns off the lights on MobileMe. And because these are all OS X-specific items that can't be ported to a different non-Apple service, you'll pretty much lose the syncing altogether once June 30 rolls around. This doesn't mean your Dashboard widgets or Keychain items will disappear off your Macs—they'll still be there, they just won't sync over the Internet.
You can continue syncing them up until June 30, however, as long as you don't move your account to iCloud until the very last minute. If you've already moved, you're out of luck. There are benefits to migrating your MobileMe account over to iCloud trust us! It was a good idea with seemingly not much take up from users because it was limited to a few aliases, and you also had to do it via iCloud. That same feature, though, let Apple decide to add an me.
And then later to add an icloud. So if someone did choose to email you on icloud. That was nice. What was less nice is that Apple initially changed it so that emails you sent out were being marked with this alias as the return address. Some of us had been giving out our mac. But it's as if Apple bears a grudge. Even as it let us continue using mac. If you discovered you liked email aliases, for instance, you had to be careful which you created and which you then deleted.
Your Apple ID is tied to an email address and Apple gives you some flexibility about this, because it recognizes that we sometimes lose access to a previous address. You can change the address associated with your Apple ID and there's a current support document about how and why you might do that.
For some years, though, that page has said you're out of luck if you want to change to an mac. You can't do it unless you somehow already have that address associated with your account. And then in late August , even that helpful information is gone. That same support page still lists what you can do with third-party email addresses. But gone are any references to mac. Microsoft has arguably done a similar thing with email addresses since it retired the old hotmail.
In that case, though, the change was practically from embarrassment at what a bad reputation Hotmail had for spam. Even though iTools and. Mac were less than stellar, and even though MobileMe was saddled with both a terrible name and worse bugs, the email was comparatively fine.
There isn't a stigma to having an mac. Maybe we're just hanging on to a piece of Apple history. But maybe there's nothing wrong with that. You can also check out our official Instagram account for exclusive photos. The U. Department of Justice on Monday unsealed charges against two foreign nationals alleged to be part of the notorious REvil ransomware group that targeted Apple supplier Quanta earlier this year.
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If you absolutely want to use the same account for all Apple services, I recommend using the Apple ID associated with your iTunes purchases. Since you're migrating to iCloud anyway, you might as well start anew. You will have to get a new email account, but you can continue to use your old account.
To help steer everyone to your new email address, first off, send an email out with your new contact info. Second, forward all email from your old account to your new account. Third, when you reply to emails from your old account, send those replies from your new account. Lastly, create an out-of-office reply to all incoming emails that tells the sender that you will no longer be checking the old account and to update their contact info with your new account information.
It's like when you left Hotmail for Gmail. Just be sure to sync the most up-to-date information to iCloud. From there you can fine-tune what you features you want to use with iCloud. Having granular control over what your device does what is a good idea, but it can be a source for confusion. Be sure to active the features you want on each device individually. Turning on Photo Stream This one's a cinch: open iPhoto and in the left column you'll see the fancy new Photo Stream option.
Click on it and you're golden. Now that you're up and running, get ready for Apple to change the whole procedure again in a few years. Apple loves changing up its cloud service. Just ask iTools and. Mac users. How many more devices can utilize Google storage?
Unfortunately, we bumped into many frustrations during more than several early days of testing MobileMe. Messages seemed to take longer to send and receive in Windows Live Mail than they did in Me.
Four days after MobileMe launched, a first-generation iPhone spent more than two minutes retrieving e-mail from our new MobileMe in-box, which only held five messages.
But the same phone spent a second displaying another e-mail in-box. These reviews were made worse after MobileMe saw large outages in first few months of service. Apple published a support page about the issues on July 28, Here is Peter Cohen, writing at Macworld that same week:. Apple ultimately responded by apologizing for the outage and offering MobileMe subscribers a day extension to their membership.
Walt Mossberg addressed the early outages in his aforementioned review. Forgive me for the long block quote, but the whole thing is mind-boggling. Those were bad, but they have eased considerably. Apple already has apologized for them and is giving customers an extra 30 days on their subscriptions to make up for the poor start.
The problems I am citing are systemic. One big issue is that while changes made on the Web site or the iPhone are instantly pushed to the computers, changes made on computers are only synced every 15 minutes, at best.
Apple has admitted that this is a problem, and says it is working on it. Sometimes, you have to manually refresh the Web pages to see changes made on your devices.
And when I tried to open my Web-based file-storage page directly from the MobileMe control panel on Windows, I got an error message on both Dells. Apple blames Outlook quirks for these issues, but in my view, it should have overcome them.
Other problems abounded. On one occasion, my synced contacts on the iPhone appeared as names only, without any information. In general, synced contacts on the iPhone loaded slowly. When my Apple Mail program used rules I had set up to automatically file certain emails into local folders instead of leaving them in the inbox, they simply disappeared from my MobileMe account on the iPhone and the Web site.
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