Optimised storage for iCloud DriveHi, With the Photos app, you can select the option to "optimise storage" on your mac. This will still show thumbnail pictures of the photos, but does not download the full image. Does iCloud drive work the sa...view more
Thread Best File sharing / cloud app for OS X and IOS
Best File sharing / cloud app for OS X and IOSIn my small business I would like to be able to share documents with staff and enable them to amend and re-allocate them into different folders etc. We currently use Dropbox but I find it a bit clunky. We start off wi...view more
FaceTime and iMessages slow to loadI recently(last week) updated to Yosemite 10.10.3 and have nothing but issues with iMessage and FaceTime loading. all of my Macs worked perfectly before. FaceTime came up instantly when receiving a call on my iPhone. ...view more
Thread Storing large sparseimage disk image on Microsoft OneDrive
Storing large sparseimage disk image on Microsoft OneDriveHello all. Happy Holidays. Is anyone successfully storing Mac OS sparseimage (encrypted) drive images on OneDrive? Or AWS? Or GDrive? Or Box? Or DropBox? The question is specifically about large (e.g. 500GB) s...view more
iMessage won't display names, only numbersI am at a loss. For the past two days, I have tried desperately to upload my contacts from my iPhone to my Macbook Pro through iCloud. When I was finally successful, the contacts appeared on my laptop, but iMessage on...view more
Cannot open Internet Accounts paneI have a 2012 MBA running Yosemite 10.10 ... right after OS installation I found myself logged in an old 'me.com' iCloud account which I do not want to have as primary account. So I logged out of it and tried to log i...view more
Thread What is "stingray identity" in my sign in log?
What is "stingray identity" in my sign in log?I've been having some issues with my laptop and my phone (running slow, random stuff appearing, etc...), so I reformatted my hard drive. After I set everything up I went to check my logs and found one for Protec...view more
CloudKeyChainProxy process eats CPUI have the CloudKeyChainProxy process eating my cpu and I can't use keychain any more nor sync with iCloud, I have a backup in time machine, would suggest an action ? EtreCheck version: 2.6.3 (223) Repor...view more
Thread Why does my Icloud subscription not work, when shifting between two Mac computers?? Cannot find on Icloud file registered, on my Macbook 1 when I saved it in another city on my Macbook 2?
Why does my Icloud subscription not work, when shifting between two Mac computers?? Cannot find on Icloud file registered, on my Macbook 1 when I saved it in another city on my Macbook 2?
Photos to iCloudHi, I have over 7000 photos and videos, How do I get them off the MacBook Air and onto the iCloud? Also for my iPhone, the same problem. iCloud is chosen, yet photos and videos are taking up my phone storage. ...view more
"bird" process is taking overI installed Yosemite and configured iCloud Drive. I copied a lot of files yesterday. Today the fan is on constantly. I see a process in Activity Monitor called "bird" that is constantly near 100% CPU...view more
pause icloud sync in the finder / mac os XIt is possible to pause or stop the iCloud auto sync whenever I move/delete/create a new file on finder? I am trying to organize mine idrive but this realtime sync take so much of my band witch and I am suspicious al...view more
Mail Rules Sync in YosemiteMy mail rules used to sync via iCloud just fine under Mavericks. The mail rules help topic in Yosemite now says that should happen using iCloud Drive; however, it's not working for me. I'm trying to sync my rules from...view more
Unable to upload to amazon cloud driveI am uploading large file videos to Amazon Cloud Drive. All went well until late November when this function stopped working. After several calls to Amazon, they said that they frequently change Amazon Cloud drive upl...view more
OSX Keyboard Text Shortcuts ErrorI'm encountering an intermittent error. The keyboard shortcuts that are synced across all my Apple devices (2 iMac, 1 MBP, 1 iPhone 6s, etc.) don't seem to behave predictably on my Macs. Here is a screen g...view more