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Apple Shuts Down MobileMe, Data Available for 'Limited Time'

so does that mean there is no more @me.com emails? That's my main email. I never got a warning from apple that I won't be able to use it.
 
The transition to iCloud went well other than the 2 grand I had to drop to buy new compatible devices....
 
Shrink said:
I'm just waiting for the screaming, gnashing of teeth, and rending of clothing when MobileMe totally and completely shuts down and all of those folks who didn't get all of their stuff off go nuts howling about how they got screwed by Apple.:eek:

(Cynical and assume-the-worst SOB...aren't I!:p;))
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nah you are not cynical, you are realistic lol. I can see it too
 
Preparing to copy....

Well I am finally coping my data off iDisk... :(


I am at Preparing to copy 2,300 items(and counting)...

EDIT: OMG... This is a mess!
Most of the systems I use are formatted with case sensitive HFS+. Because of Adobe I had to format this system with out it. When the copy operation hits a file with same name with different case the whole copy operation stops.
I don't have a lot of these files but what a PITA..
 
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No Galleries and no ZangZing.

Gosh said:
MobileMe Gallery: just go Flickr (pro). An alternative worth checking out is ZangZing.
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Alas, ZangZing is also shutting it's doors at the end of August. I was hoping that it would somehow replace Gallery as that was a truly great thing in Mobile Me.

Now I will be looking at SmugMug or ZenPhoto as possible replacements.
 
sloken said:
Any photos you uploaded to MobileMe Gallery will be put in your iPhoto library as an event called From MobileMe. But... These ARE NOT COPIES of your photos, they are the original photos from your iPhoto Library. When I deleted the event thinking it was just copies of the original photos, I luckily noticed that the photos were missing from the event that has the birth of my first son along with many others.

NOT COOL APPLE!!!
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This shouldn't be necessary. From Apple's web site:
"What happened to MobileMe Gallery?

Galleries published to MobileMe are no longer available. However, for a limited time, you can still save copies of all photos and movies published to your gallery. If you have a Mac, it is likely that most of your gallery photos are already in iPhoto. If not, you can sync your gallery photos to your iPhoto library. You can also download your photos and movies directly from the web. Please read this article for details."
 
iTunes for Mac & PC is currently unavailable from apple.com

im not sure if it's related but "www.apple.com/itunes/download" is currently not available for download not sure if this is related. Also not available from software update Mac and PC.

Apple senior advisor is not aware and looking in it. they are currently working with me to figure out how to get the software to me.
 
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Peace said:
No. It means there are no more .Mac email addys with the exception of a few early adopters.

Like Moi' :D
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And me too... I hope! Hated that @me.com name so opted to keep using @mac.com.

I signed on when iTools first came into being... maybe 10 years ago?

10 years @ $99 = $990
 
Apple didn't tell the whole truth

I'm glad Apple made it possible to continue using Mobileme email addresses after it was closed down. But they didn't tell the whole truth - unless you have migrated to iCloud AND updated all your software and hardware (iOS and OSX) you cannot login at all and get no webmail facility online.

I am using an iMac which I CAN upgrade to Lion but then I lose Rosetta and cannot use the drawing package in Appleworks (I KNOW it is ancient) which Apple never bothered to replace when it went to iWorks/iLife. So I'll have to run Snow Leopard AND Lion to still use it. (Any ideas what software can FULLY read/edit Appleworks drawing files?)

To rub salt in the wound Apple has made iCloud compatible with MS Windows Vista (from 2007) yet incompatible with Snow Leopard (the current OS until 2011). Surely Apple could have simply made iCloud a seamless and painless transition by making it SL compatible?
 
Morod said:
This shouldn't be necessary. From Apple's web site:
"What happened to MobileMe Gallery?

Galleries published to MobileMe are no longer available. However, for a limited time, you can still save copies of all photos and movies published to your gallery. If you have a Mac, it is likely that most of your gallery photos are already in iPhoto. If not, you can sync your gallery photos to your iPhoto library. You can also download your photos and movies directly from the web. Please read this article for details."
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I read the website, the issue is not that I lost the galleries, it's that when Apple put the galleries back in my iPhoto Library, it linked them to the original files. So, when I dragged the "new" event called From Mobile Me, it took the files from the other Events and put them in the trash. So Apple didn't actually download the pictures to iPhoto for me, it just created an Event and linked the files to the originals.

Oh, and MrNomNoms, thanks for your "input" but there was nothing on the screen when I opened up iPhoto, I just saw a new Event and when I looked in it, I saw that it was just all the photos that I had put in galleries so I thought to myself "I already have these photos in other Events so why do I need copies of these" but these were not copies of the files, they were just links to the other originals.
 
sloken said:
I read the website, the issue is not that I lost the galleries, it's that when Apple put the galleries back in my iPhoto Library, it linked them to the original files. So, when I dragged the "new" event called From Mobile Me, it took the files from the other Events and put them in the trash. So Apple didn't actually download the pictures to iPhoto for me, it just created an Event and linked the files to the originals.

Oh, and MrNomNoms, thanks for your "input" but there was nothing on the screen when I opened up iPhoto, I just saw a new Event and when I looked in it, I saw that it was just all the photos that I had put in galleries so I thought to myself "I already have these photos in other Events so why do I need copies of these" but these were not copies of the files, they were just links to the other originals.
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Well said! Events should just be a link to a bunch of pictures you want grouped together. Removing an Event should not remove the originals.
 
artcriticpanda said:
I'm glad Apple made it possible to continue using Mobileme email addresses after it was closed down. But they didn't tell the whole truth - unless you have migrated to iCloud AND updated all your software and hardware (iOS and OSX) you cannot login at all and get no webmail facility online.

I am using an iMac which I CAN upgrade to Lion but then I lose Rosetta and cannot use the drawing package in Appleworks (I KNOW it is ancient) which Apple never bothered to replace when it went to iWorks/iLife. So I'll have to run Snow Leopard AND Lion to still use it. (Any ideas what software can FULLY read/edit Appleworks drawing files?)

To rub salt in the wound Apple has made iCloud compatible with MS Windows Vista (from 2007) yet incompatible with Snow Leopard (the current OS until 2011). Surely Apple could have simply made iCloud a seamless and painless transition by making it SL compatible?
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Not sure if you are correct about not signing in and getting web mail iam on SL and opted to keep just the email facility and i have just gone to icloud on the www. and my emails are all up to date.
! dreaded this day but my email is working, same .mac name lost, all the other stuff though but like you i can update to Lion at this time
EDIT although i can access email via the web i do not think its possible to access any other mobile me stuff as a Compatible device is required for that.
 
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Hmm, I can still access my iDisk files (via OS X Finder), so it doesn't seem to be completely shut down yet? The iOS Gallery and iDisk apps are now shot though.
 
First, thanks to the person who downrated my question about whether anyone else was having problems with their migrated MobileMe/Snow Leopard email account this morning. Some people are just too cool for school.

Anyway, if this happens to anyone else, the answer is to delete your MobileMe account and create it new, following these instructions:

http://www.wilmut.webspace.virginmedia.com/notes/icloudmail.html

The basic problem seems to be the addresses of the incoming and outgoing mail servers, which when set automatically are wrong. Puzzling but true. So be careful to follow the first option-key step. Out of caution I backed up the entire mailbox first but I didn't have any problems and everything seems to work properly now. If you have any email aliases set up at me.com, you might need to enter them manually -- so a copy and paste from that line on your old account is a good idea.
 
PinkyMacGodess said:
But wasn't Apple going to go to the cloud with iWork? I thought they were going in that direction, but is it as iWork being SAAS or actually the whole thing being a cloud based offering?
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By general storage, I meant something like idisk and dropbox, where the user controls the organization of documents of arbitrary type. I don't know what Apple will do with iWork. It will certainly allow you to store documents on iCloud, but I would guess the apps remain apps. But really, the app store model of distributing software and updates moves traditional native apps closer to the SAAS model in many practical respects. You can start to think of a device as an end point for running your software and accessing your documents that happens to include a cache for these resources.
 
Weird, when I click on the link, it has me log in, then it takes me to find my iPhone :confused:
 
No! The inhumanity of it all. :( Oh wait I never used it... never mind. :p

So has anyone really been affected by it? I know iCloud and Dropbox makes my life easier. :D
 
Tried to log into Mobileme to visit the gallery section and download any albums I might have up there. The site takes me there and gives me a button to press to download the album to save it, but nothing happens, and the album it lists says "0 photos".

Good thing I copied all my data straight out of iDisk to my desktop yesterday, so I'm sure I have those photos already backed up. But thanks Apple for giving me a backup opportunity but then deleting the data I was supposed to be able to back up. :rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes:
 
Peace said:
No. It means there are no more .Mac email addys with the exception of a few early adopters.

Like Moi' :D
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There is something funny about mac.com attached to MobileMe and iCloud been me.com no wonder some people are confused so much me, me, me. ;)

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weing said:
The transition to iCloud went well other than the 2 grand I had to drop to buy new compatible devices....
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You know you wanted to... you just needed an excuse for the misses. ;) ok maybe that was my reason. :rolleyes:
 
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