Moving MobileMe address to icloud now

My grandmother never moved her mobileme email address to icloud. We are no longer able to access it and there doesn't appear to be an option to move it over any longer. I called apple directly and the person who answered the phone refused to even transfer me to a department to discuss the problem. Is her email address gone or can it still be recovered?
Btw, I went to icloud.com, entered her email address, and went through the recovery process but it did not work. For the birthdate verification it says the date is wrong (obviously it's not) and for the option to send a password reset to another address nothing ever happens.
So I'm stumped. Advice?

As the MobileMe account was not migrated it has been deleted, including the entire contents of the iDisk and the emails: these are not recoverable by any means.
You can reactivate the email address (but not its previous contents) by going to System Preferences>iCloud on a compliant Mac (Lion 10.7.2 or above) or an iOS5/6 device and signing in with the address, then activating Mail.

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Using MobileMe address in iCloud

I did not registered my old MobileMe e-mail account in icloud before moving to icloud. Can I still use my old e-mail account or I have to open a new account?

If you did not migrate your MobileMe account to iCloud (at http://me.com/move) before 1 August your account has been closed and the contents deleted.
You can reactivate your @me.com address to use in iCloud - do not create a new iCloud accounts as you won't be able to add this address to it. Just sign in with your @me.com address in System Preferences>iCloud (Lion 10.7.2 minimum required) or Settings>iCloud on an iOS5 device.
You will be able to use the address but you will not be able to recover any emails previously stored on it, nor any files which were stored on your iDisk.
If you had an @mac.com version of the address (as a result of DotMac membership prior to MobileMe) you will not be able to reactivate that.
However, if you did migrate but have simply not signed it in to iCloud the same procedure applies; in this case the contents and any email aliases, will be transferred to the iCloud account. However any files which were in your iDisk are not recoverable.

Failure to use mobileme address for icloud

When I installed ios5 on my iphone and ipad I used my itunes address for icloud setup, rather than my mobile me address. This seemed to make sense at the time, since all my purchases were tied to the itunes address.
Now I read that I should have used the mobile me address and that I can't change it for 90 days.
Since this was poorly documented and an obvious thing to do (my wife would have done it the same way) is there any way to short-circuit the 90 days?

If your phone is signed into an old iCloud ID and you are trying to change it to a newer version of the ID, do the following:
If you are using iMessage and FaceTime, make sure you are signed into these services with your current ID. If they are signed into the old ID, go to Settings>Messages>Send & Receive and Settings>FaceTime, tap the ID, sign out, then sign back in with your current ID.
Then temporarily recreate the old ID by going to https://appleid.apple.com, click Manage my Apple ID and sign in with your current iCloud ID. Click edit next to the primary email account, change it back to your old email address and save the change. (You should not have to verify the old email account so it doesn’t matter if you no longer have access to it.) Now go to Settings>iCloud, turn off Find My iPhone and enter your current password when prompted (even though it prompts you for the password for your old ID). Then save any photo stream photos that you wish to keep to your camera roll. When finished go to Settings>iCloud, tap Sign Out (or Delete Account if you are not running iOS 8) and choose Delete from My iPhone when prompted (your iCloud data will still be in iCloud). Next, go back to https://appleid.apple.com and change your primary email address back to the way it was. Now you can go to Settings>iCloud and sign back in with your current iCloud ID and password (your data will download back to your device).

I have moved my mail to icloud, now how do I get my contacts there? I have an imac.

I use an imac and have moved my mail account (mobile me) to icloud. How do I view my contacts, (address book) from icloud without typing them all over again?

Welcome to the Apple community.
If your contacts are correctly synced, then as you start to type the address in the address line of an e-mail it will auto complete.
If this is not happening, check that your contacts are synced properly, and that you have contact syncing turned on in your system preferences >Icloud settings.

ICloud will not accept my mobileMe address

Having moved from MobileMe, I have sorted out Contacts and Addresses (with some heartache)
I now try to set up iCloud mail. So I go to Preferences>iCloud and check the Mail button.
I am asked for an e-mail name. So - of course - I put in my MobileMe address.
But it says that is already in use....
So I go back to MobileMe to try to delete my address from there.
But it says that the address has been moved to iCloud.....
Totally mystified
If I choose a new (unchangeable) iCloud address - which I DO NOT WANT TO DO - what happens to all the mail sent to my old @me address if I want to see it one the iCloud web interface
Confused.....

Winstone
Thanks
Yes - I had my old email address in Mac Mail
So I have moved ALL my mail into On-my-Mac for safekeeping
Then I deleted that account from Mac Mail
I then tried - once more - with Preferences>iCloud to get my MobileMe address onto iCloud
and got the following....
So that does not help
Back to Mac Mail and re-install my old account and it looks like this
So its an iCloud account .... ? and [email protected] is my old mobile.me address
So why can I not access it from my iPad, which now wants me to "Create a free @me.com email address to turn on iCloud Mail". If I do that, how do I get my old @me address working on the iPad.
Really Apple has not excelled itself with this migration...
Completely confused.....

Since moving to a stupid iCloud email address my message on my macbook won't work!!

since moving to a stupid iCloud email address my message on my macbook won't work!
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So FYI, if it's any of your business lizdance40. One thing is, if your not to give me Advise on my problem then why waste my time responding.
So here is the details.
I got an iCloud account a year ago and used all same info on my Apple ID. So my email account got hacked into about 8 months ago and I decided to get a new email on Gmail. Old one was a yahoo email. So as I tried changing everything over like iCloud and Apple ID I got a message on my iPhone to enter my password. We'll I did and it wouldn't work at all. So I tried to have the password email it to my old email account that I canceled. So I got in to it and no email was sent to that account at all. Then I went to change it all in iCloud and it asked me to answer questions to reset my password. The first question was my birthdate. I filled it in and it didn't let me in saying it was invaded date. So I informed the genus bar and they said to cancel that account because it sounds like it has been hacked into. So I have been trying to and add another one to my phone it it will not let me now. So there lizdance40. Now can you help me or tell me how stupid I am only?

Transfer expired MobileMe email address to iCloud???

My wife had a MobileMe email address, pre-iCloud. Her account was deactivated prior to iCloud. Now she wants to get the old email address she had with MobileMe but since it is the old system she is unable to transfer the email address to iCloud. Contacted support, but no solution, thoughts?

One crucial thing I forgot to add is she created a new appleID for all her iTunes purchases and wants the old email linked to her new appleID/iCloud.

How do I delete movies from iTunes library? I have moved them to the iCloud and now only seem to have the option to hide the icon in iCloud. I am sure I chose poorly at the 'keep file' window. Please help. My Brain hurts- 18 movies need to go-.

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Instead of removing the music from the cloud or the iTunes library why not shuffle your music using a Smart Playlist which excludes the holiday music, or tracks that are not checked. For example, use this very simple Smart Playlist:

HT5622 In settings it has a spot to add an e mail address to icloud . What does adding one do ? I haven't finished it by verifying through e mail but my phone keeps saying I am using it for icloudin this phone. Ugh now what ?

In settings it has a spot to add an e mail address to icloud . What does adding one do ? I haven't finished it by verifying through e mail but my phone keeps saying I am using it for icloudin this phone. Ugh now what ?

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I updated to OS X 10.9.2 and turned on my calendar sync in iCloud, now my calendar is unavailable and shows moving calendar to server acount for 3 days. Not sure how to reset or gain access? Please help!

I updated to OS X 10.9.2 and turned on Calendar sync in iCloud, now my calendar is unavailable and shows "moving calendars to server account" for 3 days. Not sure how to reset or access calendar. I can only force quit the app and when I restart it, it goes right to the same message. I have also tried turning off the sync in iCloud to no avail. Please help. I need my calendar!

Try the solution posted by melosaris here: https://discussions.apple.com/message/23475967#23475967.

HT204053 Now I've got it totally screwed up. I have one address for iCloud and another for iTunes. I would rather have only 1 but can't make the forms fill out correctly to do that. What now?

I've just bought my iPhone and have had an iTunes account for some time. While setting up the iPhone - Apple ID - the form would not allow me to use my currect primary email address. I had to insert another one because of the iTunes email address apparently. Now I can't seem to get it straightened out. I need my primary email address to be the only one and use a secondary address for the "rescue" address. How can I manage this without making everything worse?

Welcome to the Apple Community.
You need to use the original Apple ID you used for iTunes with iTunes and iCloud on your new device. What problems did you encounter when you tried to do this.

Want to change the email address I used to setup Icloud initiatally. Can I do that? If I change apple ID do I lose all information in Icloud now?

want to change the email address I used to setup Icloud initiatally. Can I do that? If I change apple ID do I lose all information in Icloud now?

You can change the login ID address, provided that it is not an @icloud.com, @me.com or @mac.com address. You will need to sign out on all your computers/devices and sign back in again with the new ID.
However, once you have created an iCloud account and chosen an @icloud.com address to go with it you can't change the address (short of creating an entirely new account).
All is not lost, though. You can add up to three 'email aliases' - these are additional addresses (not accounts) which deliver into the same inbox as the main account. (In fact it's a good idea to give out alias addresses, rather than the main address, because if they attract spam you can easily change them.) (New aliases can only be @icloud.com ones; @me.com addresses cannot now be created.)
You should be aware before you start that once you've created an alias you cannot turn that address into a full iCloud account, move it to another account, or reactivate it if you delete it.
More information on aliases here:
http://help.apple.com/icloud/#mm6b1a490a

How do I set up a second email address in icloud....it opens it in Mobileme??help

I am trying to add an additional email address and when I do it opens it in mobile me.....not sure what I am doing wrong...should it be @me.com or @mac.com....I thought @mac.com but it does not acknowlege it.....I would think this would be easy....I sure it is and I am just missing something. HELP
thanks

If as your signature states you are using 10.6.8 (if it isn't correct please update it to prevent confusion) then you need to set Mail up manually to access an existing iCloud account's email - the method detailed in this page gets round Snow Leopard's tendency to dump you into a MobileMe account:
Entering iCloud email settings manually in Snow Leopard or Leopard
You cannot create a new iCloud account in Snow Leopard; you cannot create a new @mac.com address in anything. If you already have an iCloud account migrated from MobileMe, then if you had an @mac.com version of the address in that then you still have it.
If you have an iCloud account you can add up to three 'email aliases', which are additional addresses (not accounts) which deliver into the same inbox as the main address. These can only be @me.com addresses. You do this at http://icloud.com - please see this page:
http://help.apple.com/icloud/#mm6b1a490a

HT4899 I have NEVER used my icloud email address and am now getting spam mail to services I have NEVER signed up to. Should I conclude from this that Apple have sold my details on?

I have NEVER used my icloud email address and am now getting spam mail to services I have NEVER signed up to. Should I conclude from this that Apple have sold my details on?
To tell me to mark it as spam is just not good enough. I do not want this rubbish cluttering my inbox.

Nobody want to receive spam, but it's a fact of life. Apple is certainly not selling your address on to spammers, and it's possible that the spammer has been guessing at possible addresses and has hit on yours.
A good third-party program for dealing with spam is SpamSieve - after a training period it's very good at identifying spam and shunting it to a Spam folder where you can check it and delete at your leisure. It works with iCloud.

ICloud telling me email is taken. The email is my mobileme address. What gives?

I am trying to set up email and Notes back up in iCloud and am required to set up an iCloud email account. I have a .me account already and when I enter this in the prompt on my iPhone4 it says the email is already taken. What can I do about this?
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Dean

i,ve spent 2 days on this, doin me head in, and not a fan of ios5 at this point in time. What i have discoverd is that the itunes ID works on all things ipod touch 3g, ipod touch 4g, and iphone4 to download and sync some items. for photostream and notes+email to work you have to use a new me.com email address (even though I have a paid for me.com email address, it does not give an option to sign in using that email address.
I have also dicovered that everything needs to identical for actual syncing. Even then notes don,t sync and email syncs on 2 items but not the others. so now I have what apple call a synced, ipod touch 3g, ipod touch 4g, iphone4, Appe tv, and Mac all syncng with different bits of info on each one. No 2 of them have the exact same info. Mobile me disk space is impossible to access after icloud update, so I don,t know why I am paying for 20gbs of cloud space that I can,t use.
I,m giving up on it at this stage, have searched through millions of forums and other websites etc, and now am completely disgusted with the ios5 operating system. Any good that it may have brought has now been diminished to anabsolute distust of it all and I may never try to resolve it, as I don,t think any update should need this level of customer interaction to get it to work. Microsoft stopped that kind of attitude 3 or 4 upgrades ago. It appears that apples need to have a media event is more important than its cstomers accessing what is in my opinion a BETA release of IOS5 software.
What really irks me is the fact that, as a paid up customer of mobile me, I started to lose bits of info unless I upgraded all the devices at the same time to eventually access Icloud, and then when I do it, I spend days trying to get them all to function together. If I had not had the mobile me account I woud not have needed to upgrade all the devices at the same time.
For the record some of these are purely toys, but the phone and ipod 4g were actually accessing work related information, and now they don,t. Really really annoying.
Incidentally I could not use the paid for mobile me email address and had to create new mobile me email addresses, which I now have cluttering up my email accounts, amd btw it seems the devices are using these email addresses for syncing hence the different information on each one.

Moving MobileMe address to icloud now

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