Why no Keychains, Preferences, etc?

MobileMe was the glue that held everything together for me. Can anyone please explain Apple's logic in not including Dashboard Widgets, Dock Items, Keychains, Mail Accounts, Mail Rules and Preferences in iCloud sync?

I completely agree with your view of MobileMe. I believe there are a lot of us that are baffled, disappointed, and/or irate over this. I've been frantically trying alternatives, but quickly come back to the reality that there currently are no good ones. (No, 1Password doesn't cut it!) Hopefully something will change between now and the end of June when I am finally forced to give up MobileMe.
As has been suggested multiple times accross many threads, please send feedback to Apple on this! Let's hope they are listening!!

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TS3048 My keyboard will connect wirelessly but my mouse will not. I've put new batteries in the mouse and the green light is blinking but it just won't connect!!! I don't have a 'wired' mouse so I can't get into preferences etc!!! Pls help

My keyboard will connect wirelessly but my mouse will not. I have tried many times, put new batteries in etc. The Bluetooth appears to be on (as the wireless keyboard is working). I don't have a 'wired' mouse so I can't get into preferences etc. Is the mouse dead perhaps? The green light is flickering so it should be ok???
Thank you for your help
Sully (frustrated Irishman)

From what you say I would suggest the batteries are not connecting properly.
First, thoroughly clean all contacts, both inside the mouse and the contact points of the batteries. Use an alcohol based cleaner (whisky will do, hic!) dampen (not wet) cotton buds for cleaning.
Then check to see if they fit firmly. If you can shake your mouse and hear things are loose, that will be the batteries. Check the make. Apple and Duracell, in that order, are the best batteries. Where slight undersizing has been reported they are with other than the foregoing.
You can resolve the size problem with appropriate packing but that will always be a makeshift solution. After, reassemble, turn on the mouse and with luck, away you go.
Hopefully this will solve your problem but in any case let us know how you get on.
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I cannot open iCloud documents on my MAC I went to preferences etc and it did not give me access. My error says I need an updated version of numbers but I have the latest version

Mac OSX 10.4
Processor 3.06
Numbers 2.3 (554)
I cannot open iCloud documents on my MAC I went to preferences etc and it did not give me access. My error says I need an updated version of numbers but I have the latest version

You cannot access iCloud on a Mac running Mac OSX 10.4. Are you sure, the system version is correct?
If you are running iWork '09 (iWork 09 9.0.1) on your Mac with Numbers 2.3, you must at least have MacOS X 10.5.6 installed.
if you want iCloud support for iOS apps, you need the iWork 9.3 update,see: About the iWork 9.3 Update
And this update requires OS X Lion v10.7.4
Is your iMac compatible with Lion or later?

Why does system preferences crash every time i try to change the wallpaper?

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#Enter about:crashes in the address bar (that's where you enter your website URL) and press Enter. You should now see a list of submitted crash reports.
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I had been upgraded to 10.6.8 awhile ago and have had this problem ongoing since then. My company IT guy is not all that helpful or pleasant. His repsonse to my issue is "I have never seen that before".
I am unable to make lasting changes to software preferences, my dock, bookmarks (in any browser), list of recent servers, etc. Any changes that I make are rendered obsolete after a reboot.
I have tried the repair disk permissions but had no luck.
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

ds store wrote:
Since…Apple is refusing to supply security updates for 10.6.8 and earlier,
Why are you saying that? AFAICT, SL is still being supported, Maybe not at the frequency level you'd prefer, but security updates are amongst the recent ones.

Why is 'Dock Preferences' not opening? (Snow L)

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I am replying to my own post here......I went back in the galaxy of Time Machine, found the last time I had System Preferences in and clicked Restore and Bingo!
I am still mystified as to why it disappeared when I had not even looked at it for a couple of weeks, mmmmmm!

Problems with Keychain, login etc etc .... help please :-/

Hi guys,
My G5 iMac started playing up a couple of days ago.
First of all in Mail it kept asking me for my password for my email account, it wouldn't accept it and kept asking me to set up a 'default Keychain' which I did but still the 'password' window appeared every time I opened Mail ??
I ran Disk Aid and other than a couple of files out of order everything seemed fine.
I looked on the Help menu for Keychain advice and ran Keychain Aid, upon completion it said there were problems ? didn't say what or how to fix them ?
No passwords I entered into Keychain would work at all.
Then yesterday when I turned my computer on it asked for my password ? it's never done this before ..... I entered it and when the computer restarted it was all different ?? There were files on the desktop from 2-3 years ago ?? and when I went into my Pictures, Documents, Music etc there were no files there from the last three years ?? real odd i thought. Opened safari and all my Bookmarks were from 2-3 years ago too ??
Looked on here for hints and tips, did a 'safe' reboot ? installed my original OS X disc but ended up reinstalling OS X.
Then every time I switched on or restarted, it would come up as my computer and ask me to enter my name and password, neither of which it would recognise ??
Again off the installation disc I ran 'Disk Aid' with no problems then started to change passwords etc after logging in as a System Administrator in a new account :-/
Going into Users via my new account I can see two old one's both bearing my name although slightly different. One I can see is from when I originally got this computer, the other is obviously my most recent ? as all my iTunes files, documents etc are there. All that is missing now is my Pictures as all that is in that file is iPhoto. Somehow all my saved pics etc ended up in a Pictures folder within my Home (folder/file ?) within my last account. Obviously as I can't log into that account anymore I can't access my Home menu under it :-/
Any suggestions guys ? does it make any sense ? sorry to babble.

If i go into Macintosh HD then down to Users I can see my two old Home folders. If i go into the most recent, like I said earlier there is only iPhoto in the Pictures folder, this is due to an error I needed to correct before all my hassle with Keychain and Passwords started. If I could log in to that Home folder I'd be able to access my pics but my Mac isn't recognising any passwords for it ??
When you open the Finder window and you can see Desktop - Home - Documents - Music - Pictures and Movie folders there used to be nothing but iPhoto in the Pictures folder, however if i clicked on my Home folder in the Finder menu my pictures could be found within the Pictures folder in there.
Although i can see my other Home folders under Users in the Macintosh HD, when I go into System Preferences - Accounts - the only one present is this new 'system administrator' one I set up yesterday ??

Is there a way to 'lock' all settings, preferences etc. ?

I am one of probably millions of people who take care of and maintain a computer for their aging parents. My problem is that Mom and Dad have a terrible time keeping from making unwanted changes to their system. I am referring to details such as window positions, toolbar selections and countless other settings in their browser, email client etc. They will accidentally change something and have no idea how they did it or how to change it back, or even recollection of exactly how things used to be.
Can anyone here advise me of a utility or application that can be used to effectively 'lock' everything so that they cannot possibly mess things up. I would hope it could cover the entire OS, not just specific apps such as 'Mail'. I also need this to work for OS X 10.3.9.
Even if things cannot be locked, is there some way that the computer could at least boot up in the exact same configuration every time it is booted? Is there some way to create and utilize a disk based 'sleep mode' file for this? I'm referring to a disk file that gets written before the Mac goes into a deep sleep mode before a forced sleep due to low battery power.
Any help would be greatly appreciated, not just by me and other 'children/caretakers' but I would bet by millions of geriatrics around the world! TIA

I have been doing some searching and experimenting and have just come up with two solutions.
One is to use the app called "Deep Freeze" for the Mac. It works back to Panther at least and that is what I need. It sees to it that upon re boot everything will be the same as it was when it was frozen. You can even have a special folder that you can put stuff in (new downloads or other documents you have created) and they will be readable and writable as normal.
The problem with the above app is that I could not find any way for it to keep new emails. It would re-Get them with every restart of the computer.
So I found an even simpler way that works very well for my situation. I use Get Info and check the "Lock" box for the following files in HomeFolder/Library/Preferences/
com.apple.desktop.plist
com.apple.finder.plist
com.apple.dock.plist
com.apple.mail.plist
com.apple.Safari.plist
com.apple.universalaccess.plist
Doing this makes it so that even if mom and dad screw with any prefs or window positions of Mail and Safari, or if they inadvertently drag and 'poof' icons out of the dock (they do this routinely with their shaky hands and mouse button trigger finger). At the next start of the application everything is back to the default (default by my design) position. And upon restarting the computer the dock has all its icon back in place. It is very simple and straight forward to do and it is obviously free. Just make yourself a folder with an alias of every plist file that you 'lock' and you can very easily find them and unlock them if you need to make a change.
If you want any particular folder to open when the computer is booted or if you want any particualr apps to be open at boot time just put them in System Prefs/Accounts/Login Items.
All the above works in 10.4.10. I hope it will work in 10.3.9.
The only thing I have not yet discovered how to do is how to make a folder window be in a specific place and have a specific size when it opens at boot time. It needs to be this way regardless of how it might have been left at Shut Down time. Any help on what needs to be locked etc. to accomplish that would be greatly appreciated. TIA

Why no Keychains, Preferences, etc?

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