Hi Carlo & Bill,
We went through this with Bill back on 27 July 2011. I’ve pasted my reply below
FYI.
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Subject: Re: Mobile me
Date: 27 July 2011 1:14:27 PM AWST
To: WAMUG <wamug@wamug.org.au>
On 27/07/2011, at 12:22 PM, Bill Parker wrote:
>
> How do I disable mobile me?
>
> Bill
Hi Bill,
First a question: Why delete it when you have it until June 30, 2012?
At least you will have the benefit of MobileMe until then and I'm told you will
be able to have an iCloud account at the same time as your MM account, until
said date.
<http://www.apple.com/au/support/mobileme/>
<http://www.apple.com/mobileme/transition.html>
The only change I have made so far is to move my MobileMe hosted Website over
to HostingServicesWA (Daniel Kerr Mac Wizardry).
If you still really wish to delete your MobileMe Account:
Have you saved all your files that were stored on your MobileMe iDisk?
<http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4701>
If you are still within a paid subscription you can cancel it and get a
proportional refund by contacting Support.
Go to <https://expresslane.apple.com> . Click on 'More Products & Services' in
the left column, then when the centre column populates click on 'MobileMe'.
Choose a category in the third column and click 'Continue’.
In the page which opens select a category and add a description of your
problem.
Click 'Continue' to be led through support options.
If your subscription has expired and been extended for free you have no need to
cancel but obviously you can delete any items you don't want to be on your
iDisk etc.
If you cancel your subscription you should do the following first.
• Go to System Preferences>MobileMe>iDisk and if you have turned iDisk
Syncing on, turn it off.
• Go to System Preferences>MobileMe>Sync and stop all syncing.
• Go to System Preferences>MobileMe and click 'Sign Out'. Remove your
username and password.
Failure to carry out these steps may result in error messages after the account
has been cancelled.
Also go to (user)/Library/Preferences/ByHost and delete all plist files
beginning with com.apple.DotMacSync... Reboot.
If you only have the free 'Find My Phone' account you don't need to cancel it,
just stop using it.
Cheers,
Ronni
17" MacBook Pro 2.3GHz Quad-Core i7 “Thunderbolt"
2.3GHz / 8GB / 750GB @ 7200rpm HD
OS X 10.6.8 Snow Leopard
Windows 7 Ultimate (under sufferance)
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On 27/08/2011, at 1:04 PM, cm wrote:
>
> Hi Bill,
>
> MobileMe is an Apple service that helps you sync your calendars, contacts,
> email, and bookmarks between all your Apple devices. It also has various
> other services such as iDisk, web hosting, and find my iPhone. It is
> currently being phased out and will be replaced in part by iCloud. It is no
> longer possible to sign up for MobileMe. iCloud does not duplicate all of the
> features of MobileMe, such as iDisk and web hosting, but then iCloud has some
> new features that are not in MobileMe. MobileMe will be terminated on 30 June
> 2012 so anyone with MobileMe will need to migrate to iCloud, when it becomes
> available, or migrate to a comparable service.
>
> The only way you can have MobileMe is if you subscribed before June of this
> year when it was still possible to do so (fee was around AUS$119), or if you
> took up the six months free trial offer, again before June. If you do have
> MobileMe you can turn it off by going to
>
> System Preferences => MobileMe
>
> Select the Account tab and click on the Sign Out... button.
>
> Cheers,
> Carlo
>
> On 2011-08-27, at 11:08, Bill Parker wrote:
>
>>
>> Every time I use my HUAWEI USB modem the message comes about "Mobile me".
>> Not real sure what mobile is and I have no knowledge of an account. Is
>> there a destroy button somewhere? ( nearly new 15" Macbook - Snow Leopard)
>>
>> Bill
>> On 27/08/2011, at 10:15 AM, cm wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> This group is probably too tech savvy to have to worry, but I though just
>>> in case I would forward on this AppleInsider article warning about a scam
>>> that asks for credit card information to upgrade from MobileMe to the new
>>> iCloud service. As the article points out, the upgrade will be free when
>>> iCloud is rolled out this northern hemisphere fall.
>>>
>>> http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/11/08/26/email_scam_targets_mobileme_users_with_icloud_upgrade_bait.html
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>> Carlo
>>>
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