Thanks very much, Sam. Last night I spent 2 hours on the phone with Apple support and it is now sorted (fingers crossed). My MBP had got itself in a tangle and that combined with our rubbish broadband had created the problem. The good news is that we are changing over to fibre on Sept 7!
> On 20 Aug 2016, at 19:16, 'Sam - MacAmbulance' via Sussex Mac User Group > <[email protected]> wrote: > > Try rebooting holding shift to boot up in safe mode, which will delete any > temporary files, then do a normal restart and see if you're able to get to > the iCloud system preferences pane. If you can, sign out of iCloud and back > in again. > > Regards > > Sam > > > MacAmbulance Ltd. > Providing Affordable Mac/PC Support and Web Development > > Sam Mullen > +44 (0)7747778022 > [email protected] > www.macambulance.co.uk > MacAmbulance Ltd. is a registered company in England & Wales, registration > number 8466597 > > This email is intended solely for the addressed recipients and may contain > privileged or confidential information. > If you have received this email in error please notify the sender and delete > the email immediately. > > > > On 20 Aug 2016, at 15:14, Virginia Routh <[email protected]> wrote: > > What is it with iCloud? Are other Smugger being driven mad by it? Googling > the problem comes up with pages of complaints about El Capitan and iCloud but > no solution that works for me. I can't access the Internet from my > MacBookPro. I get error message saying there is a problem with > authentication. But when I go to iCloud in System Preferences I get a > spinning beach ball. On one occasion I got through to the iCloud page but > when I clicked on account management, everything stuck even the daisy wheel. > Anybody else having this problem and if so how have you solved it? Yes I > have rebooted several times. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Sussex Mac User Group" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/smug. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Sussex Mac User Group" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/smug. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Sussex Mac User Group" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/smug. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
