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Migrating from MobileMe Family Pack to iCloud

Trying to plan ahead. I have a MobileMe family pack with two extra email accounts. They are distributed between my wife and two sons. I use the other 3 accounts primarily for personal and business email. One of the email accounts is also used for itunes purchases. Everything syncs smoothly between my mac pro, macbook pro, iphone and ipad. I have years of email on each of these accounts including the one I use for itunes.

Couple of questions:

When I convert each account to iCloud will I be able to access/sync email from my former family pack accounts from a single iCloud account. If so how?

If I convert my itunes/email account to iCloud can I attach my iTunes account to a different iCloud account?

Any other issues I should consider?

Thanks.

Mac Pro, Mac OS X (10.6.8)

Posted on Oct 14, 2011 3:54 PM

19 replies

Dec 10, 2011 6:58 PM in response to Roger Wilmut1

Works ! Thanks.

Mar 4, 2012 5:47 AM in response to Roger Wilmut1

When we migrated to iCloud, we did not follow this order (delinking sub accounts and then migrating the Master account) as a result we have had tons of problems with eeping everything in sync (ical, etc...). Is there a way to "Start over"?

Mar 4, 2012 7:50 AM in response to robinfromfrisco

I'm not sure what you are trying to do. Family Pack sub-accounts were always separate from each other, with their own logins and separate syncing. Once migrated they become, as you would expect, completely separate iCloud accounts. Each should be able to sync with an single user account on a Mac or Macs - you can't have more than one iCloud account syncing with any one user account (any more than you could with the MobileMe sub-accounts). There is no syncing between iCloud accounts (any more than there was with MobileMe), though you can share calendars if required, privately to other iCloud subscribers with write privileges, or publicly to anyone who can view them in a CalDAV client (such as iCal) but read only.

Dec 20, 2012 6:04 AM in response to Joe Marquez

Keeping Family pack will keep the problems coming with mobile me it never worked well with me I started with .mac and mobile me and then icloud and now I have one I D it was always my master I got a family pack ,did not know why but now 4 subs have migrated to iCloud and they are not tied ,but they have address books that do not sync together the advantage to a family pack now is beteer than it was when it was immobile me.

But I tun es needs to get better it makes a mess of my tunes.

Migrating from MobileMe Family Pack to iCloud