MBP not "online" for iCloud or WiFi syncing

Recently upgraded my MBP to Lion and iPhone to iOS5. Now my MBP isn't showing online either in iCloud or available for WiFi syncing. Any thoughts on this?

Hey BVR47!
Here is an article that will help you troubleshoot this issue:
iOS: Troubleshooting Mail
http://support.apple.com/kb/ts3899
Thanks for being a part of the Apple Support Communities!
Cheers,
Braden

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Some playlists and/or songs "not eligible for iCloud"

I have a playlist that contains only music but iTunes Match refuses to upload it, saying it contains "other media types".
Having thoroughly gone through the contents of the playlist, I have found one song, a Frank Sinatra .mp3 ripped from a CD I own, that is listed as "not eligible for iCloud", as well as 4 songs marked by iCloud as "duplicates"
I have tried manually adding the Frank song to iCloud but its status remains unchanged.
The song, in mono, is a 733K MP3
I had to convert it to AAC which nearly quadrupled the size of the file to 3.2 MB and now it's uploaded...
However the status of the playlist remained unchanged until I also removed the "duplicates"
a) iCloud should nevertheless sync playlists, minus the ineligible tracks
b) or you should get a warning that it won't sync the playlist, and better error reporting so you can actually understand what the issue is, as opposed to the usually vague "iCloud doesn't like your track, but won't tell you why" message...
c) duplicate tracks in playlists should automatically (or after a prompt) be replaced by the original track that is in iCloud.
iTunes Match, you have wasted many hours of my time despite my well organized and healthy library.
Argh.

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Ineligible
This icon is displayed next to items that are not eligible to be uploaded to iCloud via iTunes Match. Some examples are songs that are larger than 200MB or songs encoded at 96 Kbps or less.
Removed
This icon is displayed when a song has been removed from iCloud (from a different computer). Songs deleted from iCloud are immediately deleted from associated iOS devices, but will remain on other associated computers until they are manually deleted.
Error
This icon may be displayed if the song file is corrupt or if there was an error uploading the song. Try updating iTunes Match (Store > Update iTunes Match) to resolve this. If updating does not resolve the issue, try importing a new copy of the song into your iTunes library.
Duplicate
This icon is displayed when a duplicate version of this song exists in your iTunes library on your computer. This icon will be displayed next to duplicates that were not uploaded to iCloud.
Waiting
This icon is displayed when a song is in the process of being matched, but has not yet been processed.

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The Apple Support Communities are an international user to user technical support forum. As a man from Mexico, Spanish is my native tongue. I do not speak English very well, however, I do write in English with the aid of the Mac OS X spelling and grammar checks. I also live in a culture perhaps very very different from your own. When offering advice in the ASC, my comments are not meant to be anything more than helpful and certainly not to be taken as insults.
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Sorry, Maybe I didn't explain that correctly.
The song has to be available to purchase in the iTunes Store in order for it to be used in Match.
So if you purchased a song from another source or imported it from a CD it sould show up in Match!
however if say you purchased or imported a rare mix CD, that would not show up.
that is the first step to check anyway.

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Opposing evidence is welcome. Please comment.
After dozens of hours, emails and chat sessions with both MS and Apple tech support (the latter escalated as high as it could go - "after this we have to refer you to engineering"), I was finally told by Apple Senior Advisor Ciara Ferguson that icloud control panel does not properly sync icloud mail with Outlook 365 (Outlook 2013). After several months of working on dual systems I discovered that many (but not all) changes to folder names and filing of emails in various folders made in Outlook were not reflected on icloud and vice versa. Ms. Ferguson has stated that icloud control panel "works better with calendar and contacts." Obviously, this non-committal statement is grossly insufficient. It either works or it doesn't. It doesn't.
Allegedly, icloud control panel does work to sync other email (the example of an outlook.com email address was given) into apple devices. This doesn't sound right to me either, since one can just add any POP or IMAP or Exchange account into a Mac device, so why would one need icloud control panel to interface?
I remain stymied as to the actual purpose of icloud control panel, despite asking exactly that question of Ms. Ferguson on several occasions. The Apple literature and its own setup screens suggest that it will sync email, contacts, calendar and notes with MS Outlook, but as to email, that is apparently untrue.

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Hi. Did you ever get an answer to your question? It sounds like my problem now. I changed my email address, so I changed my iCloud email address to match my new email address.
Now my device (iPod Touch) will not let me change my email address in iCloud settings. If I choose to delete the account, it says that all stuff backed up in iCloud will be DELETED on the device!
Yikes! I'm not ready to take that chance! Anyway, did you get an answer?

What's needed for intel imac wifi sync?

I have an Intel Core 2 iMac 10.5.8 and just purchased the iPhone 4s and now have ios5. It doesn't look like I can sync over wifi, because in iTunes, it says 'requires iosx 10.6.8 or later', which I think is Snow Leopard. It also looks like its $29.99.
Is this all I need to do or am I going to also need to get Lion, which is another $29.99? I'm not sure $60 is worth being able to sync over wifi for me.
Any thoughts would be appreciated.
btw, I'm running ios 5.0.1 and iTunes 10.5.1
Thanks!

Well you know what is needed which is Lion and the only way to get Lion is to first upgrade to Snow Leopard so I think you simply need to decide if you want iCloud or not. BTW it would be also wise to upgrade the RAM on your system, I'd recommend the maximum it can address to have the best user experience. I recommend if you decide to move forward buying OWC (www.macsales.com) or Crucial. Finally if you are running any legacy PPC based apps they will also need to be upgraded as they will not run in Lion. If you are not sure if you have any PPC based apps there a numerous articles you can find to show you how. One example is How to Check if Applications are Incompatible with Lion.

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I have been active "user" of apple id a long time and at first did not realize how important it is not to have several apple id:s. Over a couple of years I have now tried to merge my id:s but still have 6 or 7 id:s that are active. It seems you can not kill them. However I have one id that I consider my own and basic. This is the id I use to log in to itunes and where I have bought a lot of music, films, maps and so on. It would make sense for me to be logged in the the icloud function to share my resources between devices, but when I try connecting to icloud it wont let me log in with the argument that my apple id is not supported, the same id that allow me to buy on itunes. Anyone with a similar experience?

That doesn't seem to be the issue. Although I didn't know where to check for how many of that limit I have, I know that my wife only has 2 apple products: her iPhone 4s and her old Macbook.
I did an additional test that might help shine some light on the problem and eliminate some of the possible things that are wrong: I was able to sign in as her on my iPhone 4, and I was unable to sign in as myself on her iPhone 4S. So the issue definitely seems to be tied to her phone, not to either of our accounts, like the error message says. Questions is, why all of the sudden? It was working fine up until yesterday.

Why the lack of support for icloud, wi-fi sync, splashtop, etc. in 10.5???

Does anyone know why there is a frustrating growing list of features that aren't supported in 10.5??
Is there a legitimate technical limitation of 10.5 that prevents these services from working, or is it simply apple's passive-aggressive push to make me pay to upgrade to a newer OS?
btw - it should be false advertising that icloud is "free with iOS5" because it's not free if you have iOS5 and 10.5, you have to PAY to upgrade to a new operating system even though 10.5 is only 2 or 3 years old. Windows STILL supports XP for almost everything, and these days PC users have better access to the full range of iOS5 features that involve interfacing with itunes than Mac 10.5 users...
just sayin' - that's some serious bs...

Post to http://www.apple.com/feedback/ if you are unhappy. This is just a user to user forum.
In the meantime, read this tip and find out if the features you desire are still available under 10.5:
https://discussions.apple.com/docs/DOC-2551
If not, many other webhosts exist on http://www.comparewebhosts.com/ and the software Chronosync many of the same features, if not with as user friendly an interface.

MBP not "online" for iCloud or WiFi syncing

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