As usual - the Oracle spoke, the servant obeyed and after that all was well!
Many thanks as usual Ronni!
Severin
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15 Thomas St, Mount Clarence, Albany, 6330, Western Australia
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> On 10 May 2017, at 15:49, Ronni Brown <ro...@mac.com> wrote:
>
> Thanks Severin, I now understand.
> I’m not sure, but if no-one else has any suggestion, it might be worth trying
> this:
> You do have a current BACKUP?...
>
> On the MacBook Air
> 1. Go to System Preferences > iCloud.
> 2. Click 'Sign Out'. You’ll have to respond to a long series of prompts
> asking whether various data should be kept on your Mac or deleted. Answer
> however you like; you will be restoring all that data in just a moment,
> anyway.
> 3. Restart your Mac. (Don’t skip this step!)
> 4. Return to System Preferences > iCloud and 'sign back in'
> 5. Reenable all the iCloud features you want to use.
>
> More often than not (but no guarantees), this process will solve random
> iCloud problems.
>
> Cheers,
> Ronni
>
>> On 10 May 2017, at 2:29 pm, Severin Crisp <sevcr...@westnet.com.au
>> <mailto:sevcr...@westnet.com.au>> wrote:
>>
>> To clarify:-
>> I can sign in to iCloud on all 4 devices and my username and password
>> are accepted on all.
>> When viewing Settings/iCloud/Photos/Options on the MacAir and I try to
>> alter a setting, the setting is changed but asking for confirmatory PW it is
>> rejected
>>
>> Sorry I was not clear on this.
>> Severin
>>
>>> On 10 May 2017, at 12:38 pm, Ronni Brown <ro...@mac.com
>>> <mailto:ro...@mac.com>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi Severin,
>>>
>>>> On 9 May 2017, at 2:29 pm, Severin Crisp <sevcr...@westnet.com.au
>>>> <mailto:sevcr...@westnet.com.au>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> I have 4 Macs, 2 iOS and 2 OSX. On all four I can sign in and get in to
>>>> my account - i.e. my email address and Apple password are accepted by
>>>> iCloud.
>>>
>>> So no problems signing in to your iCloud Account on all four units - ie 2
>>> iDevices & 2 computers.
>>>
>>>> I tried to change one of the options for Photos on my MacAir and it will
>>>> not accept my password.
>>>
>>> I don’t understand your above comment?
>>> Are you in Photos.app on the MacBook Air? What option were you trying to
>>> change?
>>> Is it asking for your MacBook Air User Account password?
>>>
>>>
>>>> What have I missed that needs setting up?
>>>> Severin Crisp
>>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>> Ronni
>>>
>>> 13-inch MacBook Air (April 2014)
>>> 1.7GHz Dual-Core Intel Core i7, Turbo Boost to 3.3GHz
>>> 8GB 1600MHz LPDDR3 SDRAM
>>> 512GB PCIe-based Flash Storage
>>>
>>> macOS Sierra 10.12.4
>>>
>>>> ____________________________________________________
>>>>
>>>> Assoc Prof R Severin Crisp, FAIP, FIP, CPhys
>>>> 15 Thomas St, Mount Clarence, Albany, 6330, Western Australia
>>>> ph (08) 9842 1950 ( Int'l +61 8 9842 1950)
>>>> mail to: sevcr...@westnet.com.au
>>>> <mailto:sevcr...@westnet.com.au>
>>>> ____________________________________________________
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