Hi Neil, MobileMe: How to save files on your MobileMe iDisk to your Mac <http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4701>
Cheers, Ronni On 20/04/2012, at 7:41 PM, Neil Houghton wrote: > Hi Ronni, > > Thanks for clarifying that. As I understand it, I am not able to migrate to > iCloud since I am not (and will not be) running Lion. > > It's not a problem really - luckily I never actually signed up anyone else > for my additional family pack members (not my best purchase!) and I won't > really miss the @me.com email. > > Guess I just need to clean out my iDisk - not that there is anything > significant in it anyway. > > > Cheers > > > > Neil > -- > Neil R. Houghton > Albany, Western Australia > Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 > Email: n...@possumology.com > > > > > on 20/4/12 6:56 PM, Ronda Brown at ro...@mac.com wrote: > >> Hi Neil, >> >> If you don't migrate to iCloud you will lose your @me.com address after June. >> Apple will send you a few emails after the end of MobileMe suggesting you >> upgrade to iCloud I would imagine before they ‘delete’ your @me.com email. >> >> If you migrate the email, contacts, calendars and bookmarks will be >> transferred to iCloud. The email address will stay the same. >> >>>> That would be right - a couple of months after I decided to spring for the >>>> $39 and buy the SL to update my older iMac to match my main iMac (which >>>> came >>>> with SL installed). >> >> The offer is a targeted program intended for MobileMe members who need to >> upgrade their systems in order to move to iCloud rather than a general price >> cut for all purchasers of Snow Leopard. > > > Yes, well, I HAD forked out for a family-pack Mobile me - which I never > really used - so a free SL upgrade would have been nice ;o) > > > >> >> >> Cheers, >> Ronni >> >> 17" MacBook Pro 2.3GHz Quad-Core i7 “Thunderbolt" >> 2.3GHz / 8GB / 750GB @ 7200rpm HD >> >> OS X 10.7.3 Lion >> Windows 7 Ultimate (under sufferance) >> >> >> >> On 20/04/2012, at 12:25 PM, Neil Houghton wrote: >> >>> That would be right - a couple of months after I decided to spring for the >>> $39 and buy the SL to update my older iMac to match my main iMac (which came >>> with SL installed). >>> >>> I wonder if they would give me a refund ;o) >>> >>> Oh well - at least it was only $39 - not Windows pricing! >>> >>> >>> It reminded me though that mobile me dies on 30 June 2012 - what happens to >>> my @me.com email address and account - does it just cease to exist/operate? >>> >>> It seems I can't move to iCloud without upgrading to Lion - which I really >>> don't want to do yet - I'm really happy with Snow Leopard and when I had a >>> play with Lion I didn't really like it. Yes I realise I will have to move on >>> eventually and the decision will be forced if I buy another computer - but >>> at present the "advantages" of Lion do not seem compelling and I am happier >>> to postpone the learning curve of dealing with the new IOS style paradigm. >>> >>> Luckily, I never really embraced mobile me - I bought it because I thought >>> it would be good to be able to control another iMac when I left it with >>> Georgie's Mum in Perth (in case she had problems) - however I never got that >>> to work (admittedly I didn't spend tooo long trying to sort it out) and we >>> seem to do OK over the phone. >>> >>> I tried iDisk with a couple of files - but found it to be sooo sloooooow as >>> to be pretty useless - then I discovered Dropbox ;o) >>> >>> I think just about the only email that comes into my @me.com email address >>> is Apple marketing - so it's not a big problem if it just dies (though I >>> keep wondering if I used it for anything else sign-ons etc). >>> >>> So, what happens on July1 - do emails sent to that address just get bounced >>> back - or are they still received but no longer accessible by me - or what? >>> >>> >>> Cheers >>> >>> >>> >>> Neil >>> -- >>> Neil R. Houghton >>> Albany, Western Australia >>> Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 >>> Email: n...@possumology.com >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> on 19/4/12 9:40 PM, Peder Kristensen at ped...@westnet.com.au wrote: >>> >>>> Hi All, >>>> >>>> If you are still using a Leopard system and you want to upgrade to Lion, >>>> then >>>> you need to have install Snow Leopard before you can install Lion. Now >>>> Apple >>>> is offering a Free copy of Snow Leopard to MobileMe customers, see link >>>> http://www.macgasm.net/2012/04/18/apple-now-giving-away-snow-leopard-to-mobi >>>> le >>>> me-customers-for-free/ >>>> >>>> Cheers, >>>> Peder >>>> > -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> Settings & Unsubscribe - <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug>
