Re: Do I need a MobileMe account?

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Re: Do I need a MobileMe account?

Hi .. I have iTunes because of my shuffles ... and a big itunes library and I buy music. I have the QuickTime Pro version because I edit my video files.
I do not have a iPhone yet ... do not even have a smart phone plus my shuffles do not have the voice facility that may or may not be enabled on larger iTunes models. I suspect I will be getting perhaps a Nano or Touch or iPhone in the next year or so BUT my problem is that my Windows XP is stuffed with way too much and I need some space on it. I do not want to compromise my iTunes library and my account of buying music BUT do I need
Apple Application Support 53 MB
Apple Mobile Device Support 22 MB
Apple Software Update 2.26 MB (It's interesting I have this because I never use it and even within iTunes the latest version of iTunes will NOT download and update .. I have to download the latest version and update manually, that could be some Norton virus protection I don't know)
Bonjour 1 MB (I know I need this only because when I removed it, I could not get something else to work)
MobileMe Control Panel

WinXPSP2, Windows XP

Posted on Mar 24, 2011 10:58 AM

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Answer 1

Mar 24, 2011 11:03 AM in response to Sarah Cluster

Oh gosh I was not even thru .. sorry so long of a question.

Mobile Me Control Panel 11 MB (Don't know what this is, if I do not have a mobile smart phone ... well what is this?)
Voice Over Kit 42 MB I think this installed with my latest new shuffle
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All of those with the fact that iTunes takes up 142 MB and Qucktime takes up 73 MB ... is alot. I realize that probably if I had a MAC I would not have to have all of these Windows Updates which are driving me crazy .. but I sure would have trouble maneuvering thru a MAC after so many years on Windows.

Any help as to which of these things I can remove would be appreciated. That Apple Application Support .. of 53 MB ... ?? That really puzzles me. Is that from this community help?

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Answer 2

Mar 24, 2011 2:32 PM in response to Sarah Cluster

Mobile Me is a service sold by Apple which gives you an email account (on me.com), cloud-based email and storage, and synchronises your calendar and contacts between your Mac, the cloud and an iPhone / iPad etc. It is great if you have all those devices, not so useful if you don't.

I believe the Voice Over Kit is what delivers the option to have the shuffle announce the name of the next song when it plays.

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Answer 3

Mar 24, 2011 3:42 PM in response to hacker.jon

Thank you very much .... that might suggest that ... well gosh I will check out the control panel feature of Mobil Me and then I will uninstall. Because it should not offer any problems to everything working like what happened when I removed Bonjour. At least I hope so. Mostly I wanted to say thank you. Yes you are right about the voice kit .. I wonder though if I can remove ... probably can.

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Answer 4

Mar 24, 2011 4:13 PM in response to Sarah Cluster

IIRC, the voice over is an option which you can configure for your iPod. So if you turn it off, it should be safe to remove the package.

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Answer 5

Sep 3, 2011 11:49 AM in response to hacker.jon

hacker jon ... way way too late in thanking you for your response .. I get - have gotten lost on here ... finally found my way back and want to thank you ... yes I have been able to uninstall MobileMe ... . Just have not taken out all of the directories and STUFF that was installed with it. Sigh ... am having now trouble with codecs .. ah well ..

thanks again

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