January 16, 2012
Upgrade
Over the weekend I upgraded my Mac from the Snow Leopard OS to Lion. Then upgraded Mobile Me to iCloud.
The only reason I did this is because Mobile Me is going away in June. I didn't want to make the move until the initial uproar had died down, but didn't want to wait until the stragglers were doing a last minute switch. I figured the middle of January would be a good time.
Luckily Don McAllister of Screencasts Online made a couple of tutorials to make things smoother for the rest of us. I made 3 backups of my system, downloaded the Lion app from the App store. Made a copy of that and saved it to a separate drive, then installed.
It all went so well I've been rather dazed. Not only that, but my machine is behaving much better under Lion. I think all the applications, with the "Lion ready" updates, didn't work so well in Snow Leopard anymore.
Of course the downside was the upgrade to iCloud. It sucked. Apple tells you to sign in with your Appleid. This is okay if you are new to Apple and have no Mobile Me stuff.
If you have Mobile Me already DO NOT DO IT! DO NOT!!! Sign in using your Mobile Me account - trust me you will be very glad you did!
That was my big mistake. My appleid and my mobile-meid were two different things. I had to sit through about 3 hours of chat with an Apple Mobile-Me person to get it straight. They knew what they were doing, but OMG it all takes forever on chat! I got the 2 id's combined and it's all working finally!
I have yet to see if Lion will continue to play nice... iCloud too for that matter. I had no documents on Mobile Me so I think that works greatly in my favor. Many people had issues with disappearing documents.
So I've now gone through the painful process. It's nearly as bad as when a computer dies and you have to get a new one. It's why I wait as long as I think I can before doing anything.
Let's hope that's it for a while. Whew!
The only reason I did this is because Mobile Me is going away in June. I didn't want to make the move until the initial uproar had died down, but didn't want to wait until the stragglers were doing a last minute switch. I figured the middle of January would be a good time.
Luckily Don McAllister of Screencasts Online made a couple of tutorials to make things smoother for the rest of us. I made 3 backups of my system, downloaded the Lion app from the App store. Made a copy of that and saved it to a separate drive, then installed.
It all went so well I've been rather dazed. Not only that, but my machine is behaving much better under Lion. I think all the applications, with the "Lion ready" updates, didn't work so well in Snow Leopard anymore.
Of course the downside was the upgrade to iCloud. It sucked. Apple tells you to sign in with your Appleid. This is okay if you are new to Apple and have no Mobile Me stuff.
If you have Mobile Me already DO NOT DO IT! DO NOT!!! Sign in using your Mobile Me account - trust me you will be very glad you did!
That was my big mistake. My appleid and my mobile-meid were two different things. I had to sit through about 3 hours of chat with an Apple Mobile-Me person to get it straight. They knew what they were doing, but OMG it all takes forever on chat! I got the 2 id's combined and it's all working finally!
I have yet to see if Lion will continue to play nice... iCloud too for that matter. I had no documents on Mobile Me so I think that works greatly in my favor. Many people had issues with disappearing documents.
So I've now gone through the painful process. It's nearly as bad as when a computer dies and you have to get a new one. It's why I wait as long as I think I can before doing anything.
Let's hope that's it for a while. Whew!
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I only use apple's email to access my .mac mail from work on a winders machine. The .mac/.me is really the poopiest system ever for web access but it's one of my main email addys so i'm too lazy to change it...in spite of paying for it.
Anyhow, I've been rather loathe to do this iCloud bit. I don't want my stuff online at all.
Anyhow, I've been rather loathe to do this iCloud bit. I don't want my stuff online at all.
Posted by: Mr. Bingley at January 19, 2012 07:37 AM (OXWdU)
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ah, and looking at it my winders machine is xp so that aint gonna work.
Posted by: Mr. Bingley at January 19, 2012 08:04 AM (OXWdU)
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Mr. Bingley I have no idea what they are going to do for people who haven't got a Lion machine but have an email addy. It's weird. If I were you, I'd start looking around to find out before June. You may even want to make an appointment at the genius bar at the apple store to see what they say... in person being MUCH better than online!
Posted by: Teresa at January 19, 2012 09:10 AM (jxg4K)
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Well I would imagine for my home system, which is running 10.6.8 or so, there will be no problem getting stuff using the standard 'mail' application; I assume I just won't have access to my .mac stuff whilst on the road. Not the end of the world, really.
Posted by: Mr. Bingley at January 19, 2012 09:42 AM (OXWdU)
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I would talk to people about it. I think you should be able to update to icloud and you would be able to access from the net just like you do now. I know when I was having issues logging in from the internet to icloud (it wasn't showing my mail on icloud) I was still getting it via my mail.app.
You will have to move it to icloud somehow or it will cease to work in June. That I do know. It's such a PITA.
You will have to move it to icloud somehow or it will cease to work in June. That I do know. It's such a PITA.
Posted by: Teresa at January 19, 2012 11:07 PM (jxg4K)
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