My iCloud pane froze.

I can't close iCloud. Nor can I shut down my iMac using the Apple menu. When I cut off/restart the electricity I get back to the same problem. How do I get out of this vicious circle?

Unless you already did it this way, try deleting the account by going to System Preferences>iCloud, signing out, choosing Delete at all of the prompts, restart your Mac, then sign back in.

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Hello
I have 3 problem.
Could not load Internet Accounts preference pane.
Could not load iCloud preference pane.
I also can't open the Mail application.
I already tried to log in as guest user, I can open everything in guest user. So guest user have no problem.
I also tried to log in in safe mode, nothing was working. So I guess I have problem with the admin user.
I also reinstall the operating system and nothing change.
Please any help?
Thank you.
Hind.

Do a backup.
Quit the application.
Go to Finder and select your user/home folder. With that Finder window as the front window, either select Finder/View/Show View options or go command - J. When the View options opens, check ’Show Library Folder’. That should make your user library folder visible in your user/home folder. Select Library. Then go to Preferences/com.apple.systempreferences.plist. Move the .plist to your desktop.
Restart, open the application and test. If it works okay, delete the plist from the desktop.
If the application is the same, return the .plist to where you got it from, overwriting the newer one.
Thanks to leonie for some information contained in this.

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my ipod touch is frozen on the "not enough storage icloud error" the error says this ipod touvh cannot be backed up because there is not anough ICloud storage available. You can manage your storage in Settings. but it wont let me click close or settings. or anything else.

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I inherited my husband's iphone 4s. After erasing all of the previous settings, updating to ios 8 I went on icloud to set it up. During the set up, the screen froze on "carrier settings update". I can reboot, but the message comes right back.

This is a phone re-set from a previous user. Reset from icloud. Froze during set up, on "carrier settings update" and has the phone number pad with it. I reboot but it comes back and I can't get past it.

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Welcome to Apple Support Communities,
Take a look at the article linked below, it provides troubleshooting suggestions that’ll solve issues like the one that you've described, where your iPhone 4s has a blank black screen.
Get help with the screen on your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch - Apple Support
If you see a solid color screen (black, white or blue)
Plug in your device to a power source. If you see the low-battery screen when you plug in, let your device charge for at least 10 minutes (20 minutes for iPad) before using it.
Reset your device while it's plugged in.
If resetting doesn’t fix the issue, restore your device.
If you still see the issue after you restore, contact Apple Support.
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ICloud cannot show preferences pane - running Mavericks

I am using the latest upgrade, Mavericks, and have plenty of memory. I continue to receive a message that tells me, "iCloud cannot show preferences pane." That is not a direct quote, but contains the meaning. Thank you to anyone who has a fix for this situation.

What system version are you running? One must be running 10.7.5 in order to have iCloud included in the System preferences.
Minimum system requirements by feature
To use iCloud, you need at least iOS 5 on iPhone 3GS, iPod touch (3rd generation), iPad, or iPad mini; or at least OS X Lion v10.7.5 on a Mac
Do you have an iCloud pane in the System preferences?
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Why iCloud is not working with your MobileMe

Just got off the phone with support and we figured out the problem with some MobileMe transitions. Here's some of the symptoms:
You can't add a MobileMe address in Mail & Notes.
You can't edit or access your MobileMe aliases on iCloud.com, sometimes related to above.
You can't access your MobileMe email.
Some of us thought that iCloud would free us somewhat from master and alias accounts, that we might be able to break the accounts out. The truth is that you need to "bless" your master MobileMe account in order for things to work properly in some cases. Here's my story.
I haven't used my MobileMe master account in years, it's just a spam magnet. I've been longing to get rid of it, but I need one of my aliases, which is my given [email protected]. So when I migrated to iCloud, I used the alias I wanted as my master iCloud account. I set things up, my email worked, etc. I heard a rumor I could then delete my master MobileMe account, the spam magnet.
Here it should be said that there are two preference panes that have identical features under Internet and Wireless in your System Preferences and it makes things very confusing. The whole iCloud pane is mirrored inside the Mail Contacts and Calendars pane under the iCloud account that you create.
So Mail & Notes was unchecked. If I tried to check it it asked for a me.com address. If I entered a me.com address that I already had, it said that address was taken. Someone in support earlier said to create a new email account so I did and iCloud created a whole new email account with three empty slots for aliases. But I couldn't access alias preferences. Now I had access to my mail in Mail.app, but on the web I had this empty brand new email account. Weird.
I created a iCloud account for my MobileMe master and it told me it was not the primary account and had less options than my alias-created account, now my iCloud master account. Do you follow? My Mobileme alias was my iCloud master, and my Mobileme master was a minor iCloud account.
So I decided I would delete the master iCloud account (hit minus sign), and the new, unnecessary email account disappeared from my Mail app and iCloud.com. So I had just the other iCloud account left, which was my master Mobileme account, but it wasn't blessed. iCloud told me I had to break the link to all accounts associated with it. I hit the minus sign and I kept getting the message.
So I restarted my iMac and went to the Mail Contacts and Calendars pane and the Mobileme account was back. I hit minus sign one more time, headed back to iCloud preference pane, and it asked me if I wanted to use the MobileMe account or a new one. I said Mobileme, and everything just added right in, the email worked, I was able to login to iCloud.com, my Mail.app was correct.
So if you want to migrate from MobileMe, just try to think of your iCloud account as exactly the same as your MobileMe master email when you migrate. The very first account you create in iCloud is your blessed account, so if it's not your master Mobileme you may have problems. You have to use the master as your login and then you can edit your aliases by going to the gear (right top corner) of the mail page on iCloud.com ->preferences->addresses. You can only delete them and color code them. If you delete any and you have more than three aliases, you can't recover the extra slots.
One last thing. When you migrate to iCloud, your MobileMe preference pane is worthless. The reason it exists is if you want to wait to migrate your MobileMe account, and you have until June 2012.
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Sean

Howdy Mishka2015,
The article linked below details a number of troubleshooting steps that can help resolve issues with your contacts and iCloud.
Get help using iCloud Contacts
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204150
Sincerely,
Allen

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I've posted this one more to advise on a potentially very frustrating problem, which has taken me a while to resolve;
Just a couple of weeks ago, my iMac (running fully up to date Mavericks and all the associated iApps) started failing to access data and documents stored on my iCloud. If I open any application that has capability of using iCloud storage, I get the default open document/file window with the 'on my mac' pane opening up just fine. If I select the 'iCloud' pane what I get is a repeat of the 'on my mac' pane, but with the sidebar removed. No dark grey iCloud pane, nothing. Equally, I was unable to save or move any documents to the cloud. I could access everything as normal via my other devices, but could not get the iCloud access working on my Mac. This may affect others out there, hence this post.
After a week or two of to-ing and fro-ing with Apple Support and getting nowhere, they have suggested escalating this up to the software engineering tech guys in Cupertino. We tried signing in and out of iCloud, deleting the iCloud files in the ~/Library/Application Support, with no joy. Every time, the same issue... we had established that it must be something to do with the user settings, because if I logged in from a different account, I had normal iCloud access.
HOWEVER...
I have solved it, by doing the following:
Setting up a new user account with Admin rights;
Deleting the old user account, but keeping the original HOME folder;
Rebuilding the home folder in the new account, following this advice: http://www.cnet.com/uk/how-to/how-to-rebuild-a-user-account-in-os-x/
Going into iCloud from Safari, and do a reset of iCloud, following this advice: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5824
Rebooting all computers and devices that use this iCloud account
And LO! it works again!
I hope that this works for anyone else who encounters this problem. I have no idea why it worked, but it did!
Cheers,
Simon

Thanks for taking the time to share your solution.

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Unfortunately, you have done the equivalent of putting a bunch of photos through a shredder, for all practical purposes. Some of them may be recoverable, if you pay an expensive recovery service to take apart the iPad and read the data directly out of the hardware... emphasis on may. There are no guarantees.
If this were a Mac or Windows machine, you could download some file recovery software and use that, but that is not possible on an iPad. Apps are not given direct access to the iPad's file system. I doubt even Apple's apps have that kind of access. Apple would have to build a file recovery tool into the basic system, and they'll probably never do that because then people would expect it to "just work," which is an impossibility for something like this.
Sorry to be so strongly negative, but it's best you rip off the Band-Aid fast and give up on any false hopes you may have. Those pictures are gone, and even spending $800- $1500 on recovery will probably not bring all of them back, possibly not any.

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