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What's disgraceful is that it SHOULDN'T be too much. They're a massive, massive company. They're a company that sells servers and a server OS, they're pushing their new mobile device as being suitable for enterprise.

But given a chance to show how good their servers are, how great they are at enterprise....they have a big rollover project to do, and they screw it up monumentally, piss off a load of customers, totally fail to keep paying customers informed, and at no point issue a statement, apology or explanation

This was a chance for Apple to shine. They've embarrassed themselves and their customers.

Oh I disagree. This is a big transition involving a major new product, new software, new services, and a huge customer base, many of whom have been battering their servers throughout. Hiccups are to be expected in an operation like this. We're still less than three days from the start of the transition, and we're seeing a continually increasing level of functionality and stability. If after a week things are basically up and running I think that will be a pretty good showing. If major problems continue longer than that, or if stability starts to degrade rather than improve, that's a different story.
 
I thought I saw this "problem" fix in this thread, but I guess not. Is there any way to have MobileMe open in Mail and not iDisk? Anyone?
Morod

I don't think so.

It's quite strange that it opens on iDisk.

I would have expected there to be a "Welcome" page with a summary of various things (like the old .mac site).
 
That's exactly why. It appears the updater for Tiger is not released yet. I don't think Tiger will get the push capability anyway, so it hardly matters. The old .Mac interface should still work.

I have Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger, can I still use MobileMe?
Most MobileMe features work with Tiger, but you must be running the latest version (currently version 10.4.11) and MobileMe features will still appear as .Mac. Some features, such as Back to My Mac, do require Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard. For details about using Mail with MobileMe in Mac OS X 10.4.11, read this article.

Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger
Follow these steps to ensure all Mail functionality works as expected with MobileMe.

Note: All MobileMe features will appear as ".Mac" in Tiger, even if you are a new MobileMe member.

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2296 <--- rest of the instructions here.

Never specifically mentions if Push is available for Tiger or not. Anyone know anything else about this?
 
I had that last night.

iDisk causing a Finder crash (that you can't even recover from) is horrific.

Did it go away on its own or did you do something to fix it?

It's weird because when Jobs use to show off that application to purposefully crash OS X (it looked like an igniting bomb), he would show how you could always force quit that application and everything else would keep running.

But after the MobileMe updater, the core of the Mac OS--the Finder--manages to bring down the entire system!
 
my email aliases have disappeared and when i click on edit aliases i am taken to the mobileme migration webpage.
 
Did it go away on its own or did you do something to fix it?

It's weird because when Jobs use to show off that application to purposefully crash OS X (it looked like an igniting bomb), he would show how you could always force quit that application and everything else would keep running.

But after the MobileMe updater, the core of the Mac OS--the Finder--manages to bring down the entire system!

It seemed to go away on its own.

It's a bit annoying having to hold the power button to reboot though.
 
my email aliases have disappeared and when i click on edit aliases i am taken to the mobileme migration webpage.

that has been the case for me ever since mobile me launched (or tried to), but as of this morning my aliases are back.

hope yours aren't deleted, because I was very worried about mine being gone forever.
 
I'm sure it's been covered already, but what happens to our previous inactive user name? Is it still reserved?

I couldn't sign in to my previous (inactive) user name. It works fine for the iTunes Store and discussions etc, but MobileMe tells me the username and/or password is wrong.

I just signed up a new account with a new name in the end.
 
Oh I disagree. This is a big transition involving a major new product, new software, new services, and a huge customer base, many of whom have been battering their servers throughout. Hiccups are to be expected in an operation like this. We're still less than three days from the start of the transition, and we're seeing a continually increasing level of functionality and stability. If after a week things are basically up and running I think that will be a pretty good showing. If major problems continue longer than that, or if stability starts to degrade rather than improve, that's a different story.

I MUST disagree. They are a huge corporation and they should have at LEAST issued statements to keep customers informed. Also, if things were not improving in a reasonable time frame, there should have been a fallback plan to the old system until they worked out the problems. They should have had enough servers available for this, so "battering" them should not have been a problem. I mean really, one would expect Apple would have had extra server capacity (way above expectations) so you would not have severe issues on the first day. A week is far too long. Some people use this service for their primary email and storage for home and/or work
 
It was a bit of a pain getting everything on the same "page", but it is now syncing and working great for me...for now.:rolleyes:
 
Restarting also enabled my MobileMe iDisk icon. I downloaded the updater from the link posted on here earlier, as nothing ever shows up in my Software Update. Maybe it was the 1.1 update, not sure.

Does anyone remember if you could set Mail to check every minute? I thought it was only 15, 30, hour or manually. If it wasn't that way before, there is Apple's supposed "push" email.
 
I'm sure it's been covered already, but what happens to our previous inactive user name? Is it still reserved?

It appears not. I created a trial account using my old expired .Mac username without any prompts that the username was already in use. So if you want your expired account username as your me.com address I suggest moving quickly.
 
Since they started a new thread

Hereis my recent experience:

Since I have been home this afternoon (outlook 2003 on windows xp)...

Web interface running much faster :D
mail still flowing :D
(advanced button) syncing from cloud to outlook deleted my outlook contacts :mad: they were not in the web interface.
Syncing from PC to cloud does not update the web interface :mad: So I cannot sync from my outlook to the web.

I think I have other issues this afternoon my outlook will not even stay running. Had to reboot (yeah it's a windows thing)

Appears also outlook express that ships with Xp does not support imap properly for mobile me to work - many many errors.

Well, off to setup my mac and see what happens. Also will be the first I publish a website through iweb to mobile me.
 
Also interesting - I can't log in through the web interface so I reset my password just in case that was the problem. After resetting it I get, 'Select the "continue" button below to return to Apple Store Japan or choose from the list at right.'

Two problems. (1) I'm in Canada so I don't get the reference to Apple Store Japan and (2) the only button in the window says Close Window, not Continue.
 
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