Undo with iCloud
I feel like Charlie Brown and Lucy. I have fallen for Apple's promise once again. I initiated iCloud yesterday at 1:57 PM and this morning I found I had duplicate data in AddressBook and iCal. Fortunately, I did not add Mail to the iCloud services because in doing so I would have had to get another email account with me.com and I do not want any more email accounts.
What additionally angers me is that when I wanted to drop iCal from the iCloud, it required deleting iCal from my Mac. Apple is still arrogantly insisting that the iCloud/Mobile.Me version be the master. That is the source of the problem. I never want to use a browser based application to access personal data. My MacPro is the Master. I want everything synched to it, pushed from it. All conflicts are to be resolved in favor of it. The other platforms are merely devices for seeing what I have on my MacPro, never for making remote entries because Apple has not developed a foolproof method of doing so.
I used TimeMachine to restore iCal and AddressBook to the pre-iCloud initiation state and I deleted iCloud from the ~/Library/Application and iCloudPref.prefPane.
I want to eliminate all data related to iCloud on my computer. What have I forgotten?
I will take action to remove all data stored in iCloud.
Anything else I need to do?
I spent a long time on the phone with Apple but finally decided that what I needed to do was to go to iCloud and delete my data there. So I deleted all of my AddressBook entries. There were some problems when I did a select all and deleted 1100 entries; messages warning there were problems saving the state and I merely closed the Safari window. When I later logged back into iCloud and the AdressBook, the entries were all gone. I then went to iCal on iCloud and deleted every Calendar. It requires you to have one calendar.
Now I am back on my Mac, reviewing all AddressBook entries to eliminate errors.
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Apologies for being verbose — just wanted to give ample info/background.
Thanks,
Jay.I happened to stop at the Apple store yesterday for a separate issue and had a discussion about iCloud. Seems like this is how iCloud works (also, there's another thread on this forum that explains it well).
Each member of the family can have their own iCloud ID, which will be used for Mail, Calendar, Contacts, Apps, Bookmarks, Media, Photos, etc. and having this content synced automatically with a Mac (computer). The iCloud IDs work in tandem with the associated Apple ID — so while you cannot have multiple Apple IDs, you can certainly have multiple iCloud IDs tagged with a certain Apple ID.
While all this makes sense from the iOS device standpoint, I'm unclear on how things will sync with a Mac computer, especially if the family uses a single iMac with multiple login IDs for various members. For instance, I currently have an iMac and iTunes content resides in my Public folder, which my wife can still access when she logs in with her login ID. I'm guessing that I'll be able to set up her iCloud ID using her login, set up my iCloud ID using my login, while both our iMac logins will retain the same Apple ID. This would take care of syncing Photos, Contacts, Calendars, etc.
Another (not sure if unique) problem I face is our Address Book — right now, we have one GIANT address book with different groups set up. Certain groups sync to her iPhone, while others to mine. Some contacts are common between both of us. I'm hoping that if she/I updates a common contact, then the change will be reflected in both our groups of contacts. I hope this makes sense — for instance, I update a contact named Joe, and he's on my group of contacts in my iPhone. Hope iCloud updates the master contact card for Joe on the iMac, which would then automatically trigger the update on my wife's group of contacts—that Joe also belongs to— leading to an update on her iOS device as well.
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A post for setup on a previous model/OS version https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3636567?start=0&tstart=0
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http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4759
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