If you have an Apple Mac and have not signed up for Mobile Me, it is possible that you too have suffered from a repetitive synchronization with a non-existant service that draws your wonderful Mac down to a veritable crawl. Some of you may not even understand what is happening and why your computer is slowing down. You will notice that there is a synchronization symbol whirring around (much like the run to the right) up on the right hand side in the top bar of your mac.
Efforts to uninstall MobileMe will generally be fruitless. At least, they were for me. I did a look around the trouble-shooting forums and it took me a wee while to figure it out. You used to be able to go to System Preferences/MobileMe and unlink, but that option is no longer available. After suffering through many months without dealing with it, I finally found the answer and it is wonderfully simple. Thought I would share it with you. Here is what you need to do:
SOLUTION TO UN-MOBILE ME:
Hold down the Command ⌘ button and drag the MobleMe icon off the menu bar (top right bar on your Mac). And, voilà, the little icon goes up in smoke (it evaporates!) and your problem is resolved.
In the meantime, if you want to have a cloud-based synchronization service for your mac environment, you will need to update to iOS5 and download iCloud. Haven’t yet played with it, but I’d be glad to hear of anyone who has started!
Minter Dial is an international professional speaker, author & consultant on Leadership, Branding and Digital Strategy. After a successful international career at L’Oréal, Minter Dial returned to his entrepreneurial roots and has spent the last ten years helping senior management teams and Boards to adapt to the new exigencies of the digitally enhanced marketplace. He has worked with world-class organisations to help activate their brand strategies, and figure out how best to integrate new technologies, digital tools, devices and platforms. Above all, Minter works to catalyse a change in mindset and dial up transformation. Minter received his BA in Trilingual Literature from Yale University (1987) and gained his MBA at INSEAD, Fontainebleau (1993).
His books include Heartificial Empathy, Putting Heart into Business and Artificial Intelligence, bowed in December 2018 and won the Book Excellence Award 2019 as well as being shortlisted for the Business Book Awards 2019. It's available in Audiobook, Kindle and Paperback. He is also co-author of Futureproof (Pearson, Sep 2017) and sole author of The Last Ring Home (Myndset Press, Nov 2016), a book and documentary film, both of which have won awards and critical acclaim. Minter's latest book, You Lead, How being yourself makes you a better leader, published by Kogan Page, won the Business Book Award 2022 in the category of Leadership.
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My iMac has been freezing the last few days – I noticed this icon whirling around and saw that mobileme was trying to sync. I can't help but wonder if this has been my system "hog." Thank you for solving this problem — I'm looking forward to liking my Mac again!
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Thank you so much! It helped to get rid of the annoying pop-up asking for my Yahoo password!
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Thanks to you, I eventually got rid of this Mac virus.
My iMac has been freezing the last few days – I noticed this icon whirling around and saw that mobileme was trying to sync. I can't help but wonder if this has been my system "hog." Thank you for solving this problem — I'm looking forward to liking my Mac again!