No iCloud on Snow Leopard? THIS IS A JOKE, APPLE!

Right now I'm thinking about leaving Apple products behind for good. So I can't use iCloud on Snow Leopard (which is not that old)? Meaning my syncing (contacts, bookmarks, calendars etc.) will just stop when they shut down MobileMe in 2012?
GREAT WAY TO DEAL WITH YOUR LOYAL CUSTOMERS, APPLE!
I can't update to Lion (various reasons). So now what? Dump the crap Macbook+iMac+iPhone in the toilet? Should be a great idea!
VERY PROFESSIONAL, CONGRATULATIONS!

Same here.
I own Lion. I uninstalled Lion. Because, I am suffering the problem of failing internet connection when waking from sleep - it's a very well discussed issue on these discussion forums. This means I am using a VERY expensive 27" iMac with Snow Leopard and no iCloud.
But you know the worst part?
My gaming machine is WINDOWS 7 64bit and it runs Apple's iCloud software install just fine ... go figure that one out! I can use iCloud on ANY Windows machine and NOT my 27" iMac ... regardless of whether people own Lion or not, if ANY Windows machine can use iCloud, I'm certain Snow Leopard users should as well. ANYWAY ...
PLEASE use this form, be polite, and request that they stop using iCloud to sell more copies of Lion (the only reason I can they are doing this) - and get them to release a Snow Leopard version:
http://www.apple.com/feedback/icloud.html
Discussing it here makes us feel better, but won't get the engineers moving. USE THE FORM!

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Trying to get icloud, installed snow leopard, now it says I need OSX, but my processor isn't right for it. Is this possible? Do I need to buy a nw computer? will I loose all my mobile me storage?

Trying to get icloud, installed snow leopard, now it says I need OSX, but my processor isn't right for it. Is this possible? Do I need to buy a nw computer? will I loose all my mobile me storage?

You will lose the entire contents of your iDisk whether or not you migrate to MobileMe as there is no equivalent in iCloud and MobileMe will be terminated at the end of June. You will need to download any data which you don't have on your Mac already.
Snow Leopard is not compliant with iCloud and most of the facilities will not work. You can migrate from MobileMe to iCloud at http://me.com/move even with Snow Leopard: when asked to confirm that your Mac is running Lion just lie and say 'yes'. Of course you won't be able to access iCloud directly from your Mac.
If you have MobileMe mail set up to collect mail from external POP accounts you should cancel this before migrating, or you may find it still working in iCloud (where it isn't supposed to) and with no way of stopping it.
This will be the situation with Snow Leopard when you have migrated:
Your email, calendars, and 'Find my iPhone' will be migrated to iCloud. Contacts and Bookmarks cannot be migrated from a Snow Leopard Mac.
Your iDisk, together with website hosting and Gallery, will continue to work as before until next June.
Syncing of Dashboard Widgets, Dock Items and Keychains between Macs, and Mail Accounts, Mail Rules, System Preferences, Signatures & Smart Mailboxes between Macs & iOS devices, will cease altogether.
You will be able to access email and calendars on the iCloud website at http://icloud.com provided your browser is reasonably up-to-date.
You will not be able to sync contacts or bookmarks from a pre-Lion Mac.
You will be able to enter the server settings for email manually in the Mail application and access your email.
You will not be able to sync your calendars directly.
Some people have been able to set up calendar syncing by using the method detailed here - this is an unsupported hack and may not be reliable, and may stop working at some future point.
There appears to be no method of syncing contacts (though Address Book on a Mac can be synced with Google or Yahoo address books - I don't know how reliable this is).
There are a couple of third-party solutions which may be of interest.
BusyCal is an iCal-like calendar application with extra facilities: it can sync with the iCloud Calendar while running on Leopard, Snow Leopard or Lion. A single user licence (two machines allowed) is $49.99.
Soho Organizer can sync Calendars and Contacts with iCloud on Leopard, Snow Leopard and Lion. A single user licence (multiple machines allowed) is $99.99.

Icloud with snow leopard

Hi guys,
I would like to sync contacts in my iphone 4S with my laptop running with Snow Leopard via icloud...
No way to do that!
Can somebody help me???
Thanks a lot

you are right, this is not the only discussion about this problem... but as i saw : it's possible to sync ical with icloud (under snow leopard) just by setting up.
could it be possible by the way to sync contacts between icloud and snow leopard (without upgrading to Lion)

Using iCloud in Snow Leopard

I have spent the better part of a morning researching how to use iCloud with Snow Leopard. I found that iCal Contacts and Mail can be synced with iCloud on Snow Leopard. There are several posts on how to accomplish this. I was sucessful in setting up my iCal to sync with other devices using iCloud on Snow Leopard.
I have tried at least a dozen times to get my Contacts to sync with iCloud and Snow Leopard after finding several posts with explicit instruction as to how to do it. However, every atempt has failed. Each of the instructions I followed were slightly diferent. I have not found one that worked. Blog posts are filled with success stories of how others have gotten it to work, but not me. I can set up Address Book with an iCloud account but when I select iCloud as my list of addresses, all I get is a message saying "no Card Selected."
I am very frustrated that I canot get this to work while others sing praise of their success.
If anyone has a definitive answer as to how to get Contacs to sync through iCloud in OS 10.6 (Snow Leopard) please let me know.
Thank you.

There is no definitive answer, iCloud is not supported on Snow Leopard, so you are reduced to hacks which may or may not work.
Google for Contacts solutions, there are some, some which work, some which don't. And some that do and then don't.
If you want a supported solution then you must use Soho Organizer, it supports iCloud on Leopard through Mavericks. But it's $99

Icloud on snow leopard... why not? if a PC user can use it, why I can't on my Snow Leopard?

I wonder why a PC user can use iCloud on his PC... and a Mac user can't use iCloud on Snow Leopard... I'm not talking about use it on Tiger or Jaguar... I'm talking about Snow Leopard!!!!
I think you must do something, for the all real Mac user who can't upgrade every time to the latest version.
How you didn't think that there are ppl who work with Mac and not only kill the time like the switchers

The kinds of things that security updates on Mac OS X has required tweeks for have been just that, tweeks in comparison.
Sorry brody, I'm going to call your bluff on that one
https://threatpost.com/en_us/blogs/apple-ships-mammoth-security-update-101311
https://threatpost.com/en_us/blogs/apple-fixes-81-security-holes-ios-51-includin g-siri-and-passcode-flaws-030812
a brody wrote:
It is not to say you shouldn't update the security on your Mac, it is to say that you can do that, as long as everything else is ready to be updated and your data is backed up.
The issue is Apple isn't allowing updates because they are ignoring older OS X users.
Apple only fixes the issues in the last two operating system versions in circulation, there are many people still using 10.4 and 10.5 on their Mac's just the way rthey bought them from the store. Come this summer, given current Apple behavior, they will start ignoring 10.6 users as well
My Early 2011 17" MacBook Pro is only 1 year old, but in a few months my 10.6 operating system will become insecure. This is stupid for a $3500 machine!
Sure I could update to 10.7 or 10.8 (waiting for 10.8 actually) but lets say I'm the 90% of the average Apple customers who only run Software Update AT BEST and just use their machine like they do cars, put the gas in and go? Never doing the maintainence?
Is it right for Apple to deny all these users essential security updates? Especially given those links above of the quantiity involved of the patches?
Is it right for Apple to leverage security as a means to force pre-mature hardware turnover?
Apple is a big company and they need to think responsibly and support their OS versions for a proper amount of time.

ICloud on snow leopard?

I am running OS X 10.6.8 with Mail 4.5 and my .me account mail does not come through after migrating to iCloud
Is this too old to use iCloud on? Meaning I have to pay to upgrade to OS X Lion if I want to keep using the service I already pay for????

ramosnic wrote:
I am running OS X 10.6.8 with Mail 4.5 and my .me account mail does not come through after migrating to iCloud
You are still using MobileMe's email settings: iCloud's mail server settings are different. Strictly speaking Lion 10.7.2 is required for iCloud, and on that Mail is set up automatically.
Snow Leopard cannot access most of iCloud's facilities, however you can set Mail up manually to access your email. The method is described here:
http://www.wilmut.webspace.virginmedia.com/notes/icloudmail.html
The situation with iCloud and Snow Leopard is described in detail here:
http://www.wilmut.webspace.virginmedia.com/notes/icloudSL.html

I just restored my 13" MBP i5 at the apple store to the newest version of Lion after issues with a previous Time Machine backup from Snow Leopard- this time I created a new account and just ported files and folders, and now MS Office doesn't work. Help?

I just restored my 13" MBP i5 at the apple store to the newest version of Lion after issues with a previous Time Machine backup from Snow Leopard- this time I created a new account and just ported files and folders, and now MS Office doesn't work.
^^ that's the main problem. Here's the full history.
I bought a new 13" i5 MBP, early 2011 edition. I had an old white Macbook 2.14 ghz core2duo on Snow Leopard. I attempted to port over my time machine backup, but encountered problems in that my User was inaccessible from the new computer after the import finished, and I had to go in and change the root password, etc, and for some reason or another, I couldn't install any programs at all from that administrator's account. By "couldn't" I mean I could install them, but upon installation they would never boot. So, I took it to the apple store and did a clean install from the most up to date Lion OSX. Then, I created a brand new admin account, instead of trying to import the old one, and things seemed great. Then, I just imported my old files from the TM backup, but not any system settings, permissions, or user data. Just my Docs, pics, vids, apps, and itunes stuff.
Here's where things get weird again. I imported this stuff under the name "old", but all of these folders have a red negative sign on them, marking them as restricted. So, from my main admin account, I cannot even peruse these folders. Since I didn't import user data, I can't sign in to the "old" account to change permissions. I already tried to change the permissions from system preferences, but that didn't change anything. And now, for whatever reason, of all the apps that were imported then, MS Office is the only set of apps that does not work. When I click on it, it just says there was a problem and asks if I'd like to send a report to apple. I tried reinstalling it to no avail. I'm an English student, so i really need access to Word. Can anyone help? The Apple store is a major detour for me and would like to fix this issue myself.

Most likely you have Office 2004 which are PPC-only applications and will not work in Lion. Upgrade to Office 2011. Other alternatives are:
Apple's iWork suite (Pages, Numbers, and Keynote.)
Open Office (Office 2007-like suite compatible with OS X.)
NeoOffice (similar to Open Office.)
LibreOffice (a new direction for the Open Office suite.)

When I sync with my iphone i get an error reporting message but the sync still works. After trying to download 10.6.3 Mac OSX Snow Leopard, this message appears every few seconds until I quit Entourage. How do I turn this message off?.

Question:
When I sync with my iphone I get an error reporting message but the sync still works. After trying to download 10.6.3 Mac OSX Snow Leopard, this message appears every few seconds as long as Entourage is open. This continues until I quit Entourage. How do I turn this message off? It interferes with any other work I am doing. I appreciate any suggestions.

I only have one video project that I ever published to iDisk. It didn't have any music or photo files attatched to it, just a few clips stitched together. I can play these clips right now in the Event Library (so I know the source files are on my computer), but strangely, under the Project Library, the project is not there. I'm almost certain that I didn't store the project on iDisk; I just completed the video and published it to iDisk (as a .mov file I think) for family to see. I've tried to figure out how to get iDisk to stop looking for this project to no avail.
I don't know if others have experienced this, but if I click on any project and on the menu bar select Share --> Remove From --> Media Browser... it lists iPod, iPhone, iPad, tv, Computer and MobileMe. Why would MobileMe be an option here? This is the case for any video project I select. Didn't iLife '11 and/or OSX 10.8 remove all mention of MobileMe? I wonder if this is part of the problem too.
Edit: I just removed every project I have from the Media Browser. Still no luck.

Icloud avec SNOW LEOPARD

je suis scandalisé du fait de ne pas pouvoir utiliser Icloud avec SNOW LEOPARD
peut etre devrai je switcher sur Windows 7 !?

I think that you badly understood what i have write in French !
I am scandalized because of not being able to use Icloud with SNOW LEOPARD
Maybe i should to switch on Windows 7 !?.....because Windows 7 users can do it !!!
NOT SNOW LEOPARD USER
Did you get it now ? Fortuny
Steff

Support for iCloud under Snow Leopard

Will there be support for iCloud
under Snow Leopard?

Its not really support for icloud, but you can successfully sync icloud calendar to ical in snow leopard.
http://skangerland.blogspot.com/2011/10/how-to-get-ical-with-icloud-working-in.h tml
It's working for me syncing both ways between iphone iOS 5.1 and OSX 10.6.8 / iCal 4.0.4

Has Apple stopped supporting email on iCloud using Snow Leopard?

May 1, 2012 4:43 PM
Has Apple stopped supporting email on iCloud using Snow Leopard?
As of Friday, 27 Apr 12, I have been unable to load me.com email onto my computer although I can still bring in my other account (sbc), but I am only able to view my me.com email using the icloud web site. It loads ok on my iPhone, and I had an appointment @ an Apple store and all my email came in ok while in the store. I migrated to iCloud last year, but I'm still running Snow Leopard because of the incompatibility issues of Lion and other software, specifically Quicken.
Any ideas?

ds store wrote:
Sorry, I'm trying a new OS (not Apple) and having a issue which I went back to edit my post and then the window closed.
Maybe you should re-think that strategy.
I don't know, perhaps Apple found out about Roger's trick and is now banning 10.6 users from iCloud.
iClould still provides standard IMAP and SMTP services: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4864
IMO, just use a web based email like Gmail or Hushmail, that way any device anywhere that has a web broswer can get it.
But if you use Apple Mail, then you can access your mail wether you have internet or not.

I recently migrated my MacBook from 10.5.8 to 10.6.8, using the Snow Leopard CD I purchased from Apple. Since then I have noticed a strange ozone smell coming from the MacBook in the area where the hinges are to open and close the unit. I was told by Appl

I recently migrated my MacBook from 10.5.8 to 10.6.8, using the Snow Leopard CD I purchased from Apple. Since then I have noticed a strange ozone smell coming from the MacBook in the area where the hinges are to open and close the unit. I was told by Apple that it probably is not serious and is coming from the fans in the MacBook. It is true that the smell/odor is more intense when the fans are working. Apple said I should take the MacBook to an Apple Store to have the hardware checked out. Everything seems to be working correctly. I am backing up automatically wirelessly to a Time Capsule, which I had not done until recently, although I had purchased the Time Capsule in 2009. I have not noticed this odor before. Does anyone suspect something more serious that may be going on?

You may be smelling it because with the new OS the processor is having to work harder causing it to get hotter then it would with the other OS. I can't say there is nothing wrong, but what could be happening is just that, it's getting hotter so the fan is spinning faster and moving more air so you are getting more of the smell then you would before. I would still continue to back it up, and take it to the Apple Store at a Genius Bar and have them look at it to make sure. Was the computer ever in a smoky environment??

Syncing iPhone 4s without iCloud. Snow Leopard

Hi,
I just upgraded from the 3g to the 4s and am finding some frustration involved. I went through several 3g's and each time it was a simple matter to plug it into iTunes and all my information synced right over. Most notably, contacts in their entirety, and Safari book marks. When I plug in the 4s it suggests I can do this with iCloud but I'm on Snow Leopard and it appears this trick can only be accomplished with Lion. Right?
I'm more than happy to switch to Lion but I am a student and have some important applications that I haven't determined their ability to perform on LIon. If they don't I would be in hot water at this part of the semester.
Being a student I do a lot of serious research on the internet and make lots of book marks that are nice to have at hand on the iPhone for quick looks. Auto syncing of this is a real plus.
What can I do? As of now I have none of my Safari from MBP on the iPhone and can't see a way to do so.
Thanks,
W

if you turned on find my phone when you activaied the phone you can go to www.icloud.com/find your username is your Apple ID. If not ... nothing you can do. you do not need icloud to do this.

Switching to iCloud with Snow Leopard

I believe I've researched enough posts here on Apple Discussions to tell me that what I want to do is possible, but I want to confirm it before I take some irrevocable action. So, first I'll describe what I want to do, then my understanding of how to do it, and then ask my questions. If any part of it is mistaken, I would greatly appreciate someone straightening me out.
I want to keep my mac.com email functionality for my primary account, my aliases, and my email-only accounts—all of which use mac.com addresses.
For now, I don't care about contacts, calendars, bookmarks, or any other syncing except mail server syncing with my SeaMonkey mail client on multiple Snow Leopard Macs.
I can't install Lion (yet) on all of my Snow Leopard computers. I have some software compatibility issues that have yet to be resolved, and one machine (Macbook Pro Core Duo) isn't compatible with Lion at all.
I have several IMAP and POP mail accounts that forward to my primary mac.com address, and I would like that to continue.
It's my understanding that I can log into my MobileMe account, select the "Not all devices meet requirements" option, agree to the iCloud Terms of Service, and then click the Move to iCloud button to use Apple's mail services with iCloud after MobileMe ends.
Here are my questions:
Will the move to iCloud work as described?
Do I need to claim I have Lion installed on all devices? (I don't.)
Will all of my existing mac.com email-only accounts and aliases continue to work after I move to iCloud? (I seem to recall reading somewhere that the paid-for email-only accounts will work, but the aliases wont...but I'm not certain that's correct.)
Will I have full access to all iCloud features on any Mac on which Lion is installed?
I currently have some web content hosted on my iDisk, and I understand that the iDisk will disappear on July 1. Is there some equivalent functionality in iCloud, wherein iCloud will host browser-based web content? That doesn't appear to be the case, but I figured it wouldn't hurt to ask.
Thanks!

freevito wrote:
For now, I don't care about contacts, calendars, bookmarks, or any other syncing except mail server syncing with my SeaMonkey mail client on multiple Snow Leopard Macs.
The iCloud Mail server settings are different from MobileMe (though sometimes the MobileMe settings continue to work for a time after migration) so you will need to set SeaMonkey up manually with the new settings which are listed in this page:
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4864
I have several IMAP and POP mail accounts that forward to my primary mac.com address, and I would like that to continue.
Forwarding can continue as before (note that iCloud does not have MobileMe's ability to check external POP accounts and if you have any of that set up you should stop it before migration). Also, as with MobileMe, you will not be able to send using the outgoing iCloud server with anything other than your @me.com address as the 'From' address.
Will all of my existing mac.com email-only accounts and aliases continue to work after I move to iCloud?
Yes: each email-only account will need to be migrated separately and will become individual iCloud accounts with no connection to the main one. Aliases will be transferred over to the account they belong to. iCloud allows only three aliases, but if you have five they will be maintained, however you will have to delete three rather than one before you can create a new one. Some people have found creation of new aliases problematic.
Is there some equivalent functionality in iCloud, wherein iCloud will host browser-based web content?
No: you will need to find another hosting service. This page may be of some help:
http://rfwilmut.net/migrate2

Icloud support snow leopard

I have a core duo Macbook running Snow Leopard and can't upgrade to lion. Is there a way to use icloud syncing with my new iphone 4s without buying a whole new computer that runs lion? Is there going to be a software update for Snow leopard? I can't afford to buy another mac just to use the icloud sync and I can't use my moble me or move it to icloud. I am sure plenty of people have this same problem,

YES, Pete is so correct.
APPLE has gone many steps backwards. I have been MobileMe user syncing wirelessly my iPhone and MBP, for at least six years. Support says to me: now a free iCloud service! Big deal only 5gb storage.
I have talked with support several times including today. Unless I change to a Lion compatible machine, I am SOL - now way to sync the way iCloud was designed.
Support has told me DO make issues known not just here, but call Apple Support.
For a previous poster: calendars may have moved, BUT make a change in one device, and test to see if it synced to the other. My test showed NOT syncing. They did walk me through how to sync when USB cable used with iTunes. It'll never be via iCloud.com wirelessly till I get Lion machine! Miserable predicament!
Apple, read, please.

No iCloud on Snow Leopard? THIS IS A JOKE, APPLE!

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