• Optimised storage for iCloud Drive

    Hi,   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
    FoxFifth
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  • Best File sharing / cloud app for OS X and IOS

    In 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
    TomHD
    created by TomHD
  • FaceTime and iMessages slow to load

    I 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
    Cerniuk
    last modified by Cerniuk
  • Storing large sparseimage disk image on Microsoft OneDrive

    Hello 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
    damu_be
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  • iMessage won't display names, only numbers

    I 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
    Ralph Johns (UK)
    last modified by Ralph Johns (UK)
  • Cannot open Internet Accounts pane

    I 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
    sethfromnv
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  • 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
    Old Toad
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  • CloudKeyChainProxy process eats CPU

    I 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
    StPaulJeep
    last modified by StPaulJeep
  • Local iPhone Sync Possible in 10.10 Yosemite, or iCloud Sync only?

    With OS X 10.10 Yosemite and iOS 8.x, is there any way to sync contacts (and preferably calendar & notes) locally between Mac & iPhone, using my USB-to-lightning cable, NOT using iCloud? (As in olden days of 1...view more
    anadeco
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  • 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?

    HI, 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? Peraxview more
    Perax
    last modified by Perax
  • Photos to iCloud

    Hi, 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
    Eric Root
    last modified by Eric Root
  • iCloud storage issues. won't let me put more files on, even though it says i have 180GB available

    Help! Trying to clean files off my external hard drive and Mac, and put onto iCloud to free up some space. But, iCloud keeps saying it can not transfer files as there is not enough space. But when i check the info it...view more
    baileybeddis
    last modified by baileybeddis
  • How do I throttle the bandwidth used for uploading to iCloud Photo Library (Beta)?

    I have hundreds of gigabytes of photos that are now being sent to iCloud.   Unfortunately, Crashplan is also re-backing up the same hundreds of gigabytes of photos because the filenames changed when I switched f...view more
    Timmsy
    last modified by Timmsy
  • "bird" process is taking over

    I 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
    Duca Evander
    last modified by Duca Evander
  • why do my old e-mails disappear from Cloud?

    Why do my old e-mails disappear from Cloud?  After only a month or so they're gone! (and I'm paying extra each month for more space!)view more
    keg55
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  • pause icloud sync in the finder / mac os X

    It 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
    Eric Root
    last modified by Eric Root
  • Mail Rules Sync in Yosemite

    My 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
    Grant Grueninger
    last modified by Grant Grueninger
  • Unable to upload to amazon cloud drive

    I 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
    Baby Boomer (USofA)
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  • How can I send documents I made on my apple system to Windows base uncoded

    Dear Apple Forum ; I managed to send documents I made on my apple system by email or to a windows base system , but unfortunately they show in coded unreadable style , or sometimes it says , document can't be open...view more
    Leopardus
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  • OSX Keyboard Text Shortcuts Error

    I'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
    CFrancis801
    created by CFrancis801