Can i use one icloud for back up of several devices?

between 4 kids, wife and me, we got three ipads, 4 iphones for now and an iMac.
previously, we used one icloud backup for my and wife's iphone.
with family sharing, i cant find the way to have all devices seen in find my iphone AND back up to one icloud drive?
am i missing something? Is it possible?
if not, why the **** did apple do something as stupid as that? If I rent space, i have the right to use it as I iwish, dont I?

No
They all use different iCloud accounts and they will backup to their own iCloud accounts

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HT204053 Dear Support Team, every time i tried to logon Icloud its gives me wrong user name or password and at the end it show me error " This Apple ID is valid but is not an ICloud Account" then how can i use one account for same Apple ID and ICloud???

Dear Support Team,
Every time i tried to logon Icloud its gives me wrong user name or password and at the end it show me error " This Apple ID is valid but is not an ICloud Account" then how can i use one account for same Apple ID and ICloud?
Thanks

It is not possible to create a new iCloud account using a Windows machine. You must create the account using a Mac (10.7.5 or more) or an IOS device (iPhone etc). Once that is done you can sign into and use the account on your Windows machine.

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can I use one account for both my labtop and my home computer?
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Yes you can. You can access your account using any Skype enabled computer/device in any country worldwide.
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I recommend that you always run the latest Skype version: Windows & Mac
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How can i use one iCloud Photostream on 2 devices?

Due to a bug (or feature) on iOS 8 i can't use the same icloud id on 2 iphones:
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Also, on OSX i can define only one Photostream.
So, how do you import pictures from 2 streams into iPhoto?
Familyshare is not usefull as the pictures are not in Original-Filesize!

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Only if the TV is a media player.. the TC is dumb as a board router with a hard disk.. there is no DLNA which I suspect the TV requires.. you can get a player like the WDLive and it will play movie files from the TC to the TV.. remember the TC is nothing but a file store.. no servers .. no nothing.

HT4436 Can I use one iCloud account for multiple apple ID's - ie, all of those that are part of our family sharing?

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HT3354 how can i use one table for reference to another

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Here is an example of something you can do with two tables:
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B2=IFERROR(A2&" is " & VLOOKUP(A2, Data :: A:D, 2, 0)&" years old and likes the color "& VLOOKUP(A2, Data :: A:D, 3, 0), "NOT FOUND")
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first the "&" is called the concatenate operator and joins two strings. like this:
a string is a set of characters between double quotes.
so "string 1" & "string 2" becomes "string 1string2" or "Sam " & "Jones" becomes "Sam Jones"
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so if cell A1 contains "Hi " and the cell A2 contains "There" then A1 & A2 will result in "Hi There"
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OK. So the formula I provided concatenates several items together:
it concatenates A2, then the string " is " then a formula, then the string " years old and likes the color " then a formula
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all that is in a function calld iserror() to trap the condition where the calue you enter in A2 does not exist in the table Data:
You will find the Numbers users guide and function reference helpful. You can download then from Apple here:
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screenfreak wrote:
i want to buy an external drive for my macbook pro retina. i want to knwo if i were to buy an external hardrive big enought ot back up my 768 on my retina could i also put other media on it (like video and movie) without it overwriting or something like that
Buy one hard drive for TimeMachine, large as possible for maximum amount of saved states, keep it connected more often so it updates more often to recover deleted files.
Buy one hard drive the same size or slightly larger to clone your boot drive to it, it will be a hold option key bootable clone in case your boot drive fails to boot. Update it before doing anything major to your machine. Keep it disconnected in case of malware so it doesn't get infected or delete your files.
Buy one hard drive for extra storage if your boot drive is getting full for instance.
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Label and date each drive, your memory will fail you and you'll accidentally overwrite a drive.
Keep your drives separate and in their respective purposes, in other words do not use partitions or use TimeMachine to backup other drives.
Never use Filevault, it's cracked, it's worthless, impossible to recover data and you'll have to give up the password for repair or customs/searches anyway. Use a external hardware based encrypted drives and USB Iron Keys. This way your sensitive data is off the machine and can be used with another machine.
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Any idea how you can safely use ONE computer for BOTH work and internet?

I'm planning to set up a small music project studio, built around a powerbook, that I will be sharing with a friend of mine. My friend is going to use the computer for music AND heavy internet use, but I will only use it for music work (off-line).
The thing is then that I am slightly worried about viruses, worms, spyware and similar unwanted stuff 'sneaking in' when the laptop is online. Even with firewall and anti-virus I guess there is always a risk.
Any idea if there is a way of keeping things completely separate?
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Maybe we could even remove the internal hard drive from the powerbook (?), and use the powerbook with two external hard drives instead: One bootable drive for me and another bootable drive for my studio partner (and then only connect one hard drive at the time).
Any idea if this would work well..? (I'm not sure if i.e. a virus could sneak in anyway, through the PRAM, L2 cache or the RAM or something similar) Or does anyone have any other suggestions...? Any ideas much appreciated. Thanks!

Not too much worry with Macs, but get an Ethernet Router, skip Wireless, use strong Passwords.
How about if I had a bootable external hard drive for my work, with the Mac OS system on. Then when I'm working I could boot up from that drive (and use the computer off-line).
Excellent idea, especially if the heavy Net user doesn't have Admin rights.
One bootable drive for me and another bootable drive for my studio partner (and then only connect one hard drive at the time).
Just about foolproof! Just need 2 more drives for backup. Not sure why you'd want to remove the internal HD though.
No Viruses yet in OSX land, in fact the only Malware I know about requires you to install it for itself!
You'll be OK, that separate drives idea is pure genius.:-)
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ClamXAV, free Virus scanner...
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Little Snitch, stops/alerts outgoing stuff...
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HenWen/Snort combo, that is a free MAJOR Firewall...
http://seiryu.home.comcast.net/henwen.html
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http://personalpages.tds.net/~brian_hill/downloads.html
WaterRoof is a firewall management frontend with bandwidth tuning, NAT setup, port redirection, dynamic rules tracking, predefined rule sets, wizard, logs, statistics and other features.
http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/23317
Monitor net usage...
http://mac.softpedia.com/get/Dashboard-Widgets/Information/Videotron-Internet-Us age-Monitor.shtml

HT204053 can i set up iCloud for my laptop from another device

I have had my laptop stolen and havent set up icloud on it. Is there a way of using another device to set up icloud on my laptop from another device so I can search for it.

No, unfortunately you cannot set up iCloud on a device from another device.

Can I have one cloud for my family with multiple devices and apple ids?

I need to know the best way to link multiple devices with different apple ids to the same iCloud to share iTunes and content.

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