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by Winston Churchill,Jan 28, 2014 11:24 AM in response to arthurfromstokeferry
Winston Churchill
Jan 28, 2014 11:24 AM
in response to arthurfromstokeferry
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Apple TVHi Arthur.
Considering that you seem to be syncing your photos, I assume that you have correctly set up iCloud on each of your devices. I assume you have, but have you turned on each individual service in the iCloud preferences by toddling the available switch.
The first thing that you might try doing is to turn each of the services off restart the device and then turn them on again.
If this doesn't work, you may find that your contacts, calendars etc are in the wrong accounts, this user tip might help you understand how accounts work with Contacts (Address Book). If this works for contacts, you may then wish to apply a similar technique for the rest of the services.
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Jan 28, 2014 11:32 AM in response to Winston Churchillby arthurfromstokeferry,Thanks for the prompt reply Winston!
I actually think my photos are syncing via the cable, not the cloud at all.
I will take your advice and turn off all the iCloud stuff and then turn it back on bit by bit.
I will report back.
Cheers
Arthur
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Feb 7, 2014 8:42 AM in response to arthurfromstokeferryby arthurfromstokeferry,I have now found some time to try and sort out this iCloud stuff.
I have turned everything off on Mac, iPhone and iPad relating to iCloud.
I switched on Calendars on my Mac and iPad.
I now have a message on my Mac calendar which says 'Moving calendars to server account'. It has been doing that for about 40 minutes now; my Mac calendar, which was quite full for this week, is now blank.
I have looked up the 'Moving calendars' error message and it seems it's a bug and the suggested advice is to turn off reminders. I can't turn off reminders because it isn't turned on!
Help!!
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Feb 7, 2014 9:00 AM in response to arthurfromstokeferryby arthurfromstokeferry,Latest update....
Looks like my calendars have disappeared - not great as all more future appointments are there!
I use Time Machine as a backup for my Mac but how can I restore my calendars from my backup? Not sure where the file is??
I can't backup from the cloud as that was the problem I was trying to fix in the first place.
There's a hole in my bucket...
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Feb 7, 2014 10:22 AM in response to arthurfromstokeferryby arthurfromstokeferry,And the hole gets bigger...
I managed to find a post which showed me how to restore calendars from Time Machine...not that easy but eventually got them back https://discussions.apple.com/message/24567515#24567515
However....I now have another problem which is that iCal freezes when I select Preferences. There's another post which suggests deleting the Calendar cache to get rid of the problem - it does clear the problem, and your calendars as well! Good job I didn't empty the trash!
I think I need to start again with iCloud - is there a 'factory restore' setting - I've turned everything off but my iCloud account is still there, should I create a new account and start again?
Any help graciously received.....