Transitioning to iCloud

I am not sure where to save my information before I convert from MobileMe to iCloud. Can it be saved on my iMac under documents or does it need to be transferred to a separate disc?

Just save a folder to your desktop with those files. That will do just fine. No disk needed

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I have one paid mobileme account, few days ago I have done transition to iCloud and all my iDisk, contact... gone. Today I tried login to iCloud application on my windows pc but can not, it said "this apple id is valid but is not iCloud account"

I have one paid mobileme account, few days ago I have done transition to iCloud and all my iDisk, contact... gone. Today I tried login to iCloud application on my windows pc (64bit) but I can not, it said "this apple id is valid but is not iCloud account". I can login on website icloud.com but can not login into iCloud application installed on pc. What's wrong?
I have tried another free apple ID and logged on. That's funny when I can login with free account and can not login with paid mobileme account!!!!!!

By the way - the only reason I downloaded iCloud is because Apple deleted the backup option from iTunes. Since iCloud doesn't work, I guess we have no way to protect our iTunes music collection. Absolutely stupid.

Podcasting after MobileMe transitions to iCloud

I plan to start my podcasts in the near future, and appreciate the information found in this community on getting started. I plan to use my MobileMe account to host my podcasts. What will happen to the podcasts when Apple transitions to iCloud?
Can anyone point me to information on copyrights? For example, use of a portion of a music soundtrack in my podcast? Reading from a published book on my podcast?
Thanks

I would advise against starting a podcast on MobileMe at this stage. As its website hosting will be terminated next June, you will only have to go through the process of hosting the feed and media files on another service and moving iTunes to it: if you don't do this your podcast would simply cease to work. Any website hosting service can host your podcasts: there's nothing special about it.
This page gives you some 'get you started' information: http://rfwilmut.net/pc
As to copyright, to use any copyrighted recording or read text from any book still in copyright would be a breach of copyright, and likely to get your podcast rejected from the Store: and might possibly leave you open to civil actions for damages. It's possible to find music which is free to use: search on 'podcast sage' in Google: but you shouldn't use normal commercially available recordings.

After transition to iCloud from MobileMe, does MM still work on Snow Leopard Macs?

I have an older MacBook Pro that can't be ugraded to Lion. If I transition to iCloud from my MobileMe account, will MobileMe still sync on my Snow Leopard MacBook Pro at the same time my Lion MacPro and iOS5 iPhone sync to iCloud?

No.
You cannot have both, only one - MM or iCloud. If you go the iCloud route, Snow is out .

My mobileme aliases have disappeared in the transition to iCloud but it won't let me put them again because they appear as being used.

My mobileme aliases have disappeared in the transition to iCloud but it won't let me put them again because they appear as being used. Any help would be appreciated.

Hello mightymax76,
Thank you for the details of the issue you are experiencing after changing your Apple ID. I recommend the following articles for an issue like this:
iOS 7: If you're asked for the password to your previous Apple ID when signing out of iCloud
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS5223
iCloud: "Incorrect Apple ID or Password" alert when setting up iCloud after upgrading to iOS 7
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS5207
Thank you for using Apple Support Communities.
Best,
Sheila M.

Transition to iCloud - Contacts - disappointed at myself and Apple...

I have to stress that the non-automatic transition of contacts from MobileMe to iCloud is a very very poor show from Apple. Massively dissapointed in myself for not reading the information regarding moving to iCloud more carefully and even more at Apple for not providing an automatic transition for crucial parts of MobileMe...
The loss of my Contatcs in MobileMe although not a total disaster it is a massive annoyance.
Apple should certainly be able to restore a users Mobile.Me account to a point prior to the iCloud move.......

There is an "automatic transition for crucial parts" of MobileMe.
Regardless of whether the transition process worked properly in your specific case, you should have been maintaining regular backups of your MobileMe data anyway. As stated in the MobileMe Terms of Use, you are responsible for backing up your data offline.
Apple also say's "Prior to moving from MobileMe to iCloud, you should back up your contacts, calendars, and bookmarks."
If you didn't take Apple's advice, and haven't been making backups, that's nobody fault but your own.

Smtp settings for mail send needed after transition mobileme - iCloud

Hi,
I have transitioned our mail accountfrom mobilme to iCloud in July. Sending and receiving mail worked flawlessly until yesterday. As of today I cannot send mail. It indicates that my account is "offline". Can someone please remind me how to set our email account settings for sending?
Thanks!

pvonk wrote:
You have probably been using the same email "account" in the mail app as was used to connect to MobileMe (I'm surprised you've lasted as long as you did). In Settings>Mail, Contacts..., go to the Account section and delete the account you've been using. Then create a new icloud account using the same account ID. That will properly connect to icloud and get all your emails back.
Not on Snow Leopard it won't, the account must be entered manually (using the settings provided). Your advice would be true if this were Lion or Mountain Lion but Snow Leopard will attempt to set it up as if it were Mobile Me.

After transition to iCloud, all local contacts lost

Following a 'Bumpy" transition from MobileMe to iCloud (a lot of duplication removal and clean-up), I notice the the Address Book (unbeknownst to me) was showing iCloud as the Default Account. When I select "On My Mac"/"All on My Mac", it appears as totally empty. The 729 contacts in the iCloud Address Book stays in 'sync with the 729 contacts on my iPhone, (I added and deleted, just to make sure). iCloud preferences seems to be setup correctly (iCal is working fine). In Address Book Preferences, the Primary (top acct) is showing iCloud with and enabled check-box; the sendonday acct is showing On My Mac, but it has no Enable check-box - just two for syncronizing with Yahoo and Google (both un-checked). I even disabled the iCloud acct and tried to import a recent .abbu fille into the 'On My Mac Address Book' with no affect. Any pointers would be appreciated.
Jim C.

at that time i think you select all thats why all were erased why do u create another account u can use 1google account.and try to recover or try to serch your contcat using PC companion there is a contact option and try it
Do not forget to give kudosand to select the correct answer

Help with advanced multi-Mac transition to iCloud?

Hello,
I've done a bit of searching and I've read all Apple's FAQs but my situation seems to be a bit outside the scope of any answers I've found. Here's the deal:
I run a film-scoring studio based on a fleet of Macs which can't be moved to Lion for the time being (technical reasons). I'm really bummed about losing iCal/contact syncing due to the forced iCloud transition but that's a different discussion ;-)
Anyway, my main concern is that I can't lose my .Mac email address so I have to move to iCloud on at least one device. However, I need to be able to get my .Mac email using Apple's Mail app, but in Snow Leopard on all these Macs. Is that still doable after moving to iCloud?
Any help would be greatly appreciated!
Thanks,
Jim

Migrate at Move
You need to do it soon
Delete your mail account from Mail preferences and set it up again using the Mail Server Information.
Some users have apparently encountered issues using this information in pre-Lion set ups (I haven't), Roger Wilmut has kindly provided instructions for those who find themselves with this problem.
Entering iCloud email settings manually in Snow Leopard or Leopard

Lost many files in transition to iCloud

MobileMe offered a great many more services than iCloud. I had hudreds of documents stored in folders on MobileMe. I was recently FORCED to move to iCloud, and now I can't even log into MobileMe and retrieve my documents. These documents represent hundreds of hours of work. The ***** of it is that my MobileMe account, for which I paid $99, has not yet expired, but I can't access it any more. When I try to log in now i just get told that I have moved to iCloud. Wouldn't it have been nice to tell users what they would lose in the migration. Apple is really screwing up.

You were not forced. You could have just continued using MobileMe, at least until June 2012. Or you could have continued to use MobileMe (again, until June 2012) and created a new iCloud account, switching between the two as desired.
In any case, don't worry. Your data is still on your MobileMe iDisk.
To access the MobileMe services still available to you, you must log out of iCloud first, then log into MobileMe. Read these for more:
http://www.macworld.com/article/163013/2011/10/all_about_icloud_common_signup_sc enarios.html
http://www.macworld.com/article/163006/2011/10/how_to_configure_icloud_if_you_sh are_an_apple_id.html

I had a mobileme account and I transitioned to icloud.

I have been able to operate icloud on my pro, ipad and iphone; but the mobileme account keeps showing up on my imac. And I can't access with my icloud user and password.
I tried to delete it from mail, contacts and calendar: but it is still part of settings. And my icloud username and password doesn't give me access.

What I ended up having to do was delete my subscription calendars and resubscribe to them and now they're showing up. Glad it was that type of calendar where I could easily delete it and reinstall it. Not sure what someone does if it's their personal calendar.
This iCloud approach is terrific. When it works. And when it doesn't, it's a really frustrating thing and there's little support to help us figure out how to troubleshoot it.

Family account will not transition to iCloud. Keep going round in circles - get Congratulations message from mobileme then still cannot sign into iCloud. Have moved 2 other family accounts weeks ago but this one will not?

Keep going round in circles - get Congratulations message from mobileme then still cannot sign into iCloud. Have successfully moved 2 other family accounts weeks possibly months ago but this one will not? Am running Snow Leopard 10.6.8 OSX. All ideas welcome as these are original mac accounts and keen not to lose them - call me sentimental:-)

Welcome to the Apple Community.
Unfortunately, OSX 10.6.8 will not support iCloud. You can use the mail address from the iCloud account with Snow Leopard bot not the rest of the iCloud features. You can access then via the web browser though at iCloud.com.
To set up iCloud mail.
Delete your mail account from Mail preferences and set it up again using the Mail Server Information.
Some users have apparently encountered issues using this information in pre-Lion set ups (I haven't), Roger Wilmut has kindly provided instructions for those who find themselves with this problem.
Entering iCloud email settings manually in Snow Leopard or Leopard

Mobile me mail did not transition to iCloud

When my mobile.me migrated to iCloud, most things seem to work except my me.com email. It's gone and, of course, I cannot log into mobile me and the mobile me mail account no longer appears on my devices. When, in iCloud on either Mac or iPad, I try to add my mobile me address, it tells me it's already taken and to please invent another. Don't want to: want the old one, because people have been using it. How did we manage, apple and i, to "lose" the connection to the mobile me mail account? Color me baffled.

If you go to http://me.com and log in, do you see any of your data there that should have been migrated?
Did you migrate by going to http://me.com/move and logging in with your MobileMe email address?
When you go to http://icloud.com in a browser you should see a login page. What happens when you log in with your MobileMe email address?
Please make sure that this is what your are logging in with: you may have a different ID for iTunes and you should not be logging in with that.

HT204053 .me transition to iCloud?

Where to go to convert from .me to iCloud?

You seem confused, ripped music is not associated with an ID, only music purchased from iTunes.
You can not merge ID's, so spend the time looking at what they contain, pick one to login to, then authorize the machine for the other 2.
And none of this has anything to do with iCloud, iTunes is in charge of your music.

The transition to icloud has added 'United States' to all my contacts.

Can I remove this without editing each one individually?

iCloud Help
http://help.apple.com/icloud/?lang=en
Go to Settings, then to iCloud and make sure contacts is checked...

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