Migrating from MobileMe Family Pack to iCloud

I dealt with this too. I split my wife's account out of the family pack and created a unique iCloud account for her. I hope that we will be able to share and follow calendars and files. We'll see.

We are on separate MacBooks. I added my email only back on to our "home" MacBook. I suppose I could do the same with her email on my "work" MacBook pro.

How did you split out your wifes account?

I only see an option to delete a sub-account, and the warning says all data will be deleted immediately.

try logging in with her credentials on icloud.com

I assume you meant mobileme, since obviously she has not been migrated to iCloud yet. However there is still no option to split out her account.

I have the same question. When I try to migrate my Family MobileMe account (for which I have four related emails accounts), the step-by-step prompts me to remove these emails accounts first. I don't want to lose then. If I de-link then from my Family MobileMe account, will they still exist as Apple IDs? I tried to use the email accounts to migrate then individually to iCloud, but I keep getting a "server error" so I'm wondering whether it's because these emails accounts are still linked to my Family MobileMe account. Do you think I risk losing these email accounts as Apple IDs if I delink them?

Does this link bring you to the MobileMe support page?

http://help.apple.com/mobileme/?lang=en#mmfc0f09a6

Brian Cameron wrote:

I have the same question. When I try to migrate my Family MobileMe account (for which I have four related emails accounts), the step-by-step prompts me to remove these emails accounts first....

You can migrate each sub-account (by going to http://me.com/move ) individually before or after you have migrated the Master account. The wording of Apple's instructions has confused a number of people: what they are saying is that if you want to delete or administer any of the sub-accounts you need to do it from the Master account before you migrate, because you won't be able to do it afterwards.

You can regard the sub-accounts as being exactly like full accounts or the Master account, except that they can't be cancelled except by the Master account holder, and of course they have only 5GB space (and so won't be eligible for the free 20GB upgrade in iCloud which applies to migrants until 30 June 2012).

wewillascend wrote:

http://help.apple.com/mobileme/?lang=en#mmfc0f09a6

This link is to an old MobileMe instruction page and has no bearing on iCloud.

This did the trick. I migrated everyone last night. Everything is working perfectly. Thanks, again.

By the way, what are these points? Is there something I can do to acknowledge your helpfulness? You saved me a lot of time (or I should say, even more time after having spent a lot of time myself trying to trouble shoot the problem).

Glad you got it going.

Points can be awarded only by the person who starts a thread - 5 for a 'helpful' answer and 10 for a 'correct' answer if I remember correctly: but people who join the thread can't award them. Your acknowledgement is sufficient in itself - you'd be surprised how many people don't even bother to do that.

Hi, saw this and had a question. I have/had a family mobileme account. Two email addresses (one is master). My spouse has the other one. I migrated both to iCloud and now realize that that email address may not have access to my itunes. Is that true? I must be missing something. Originally had family account and all of our devices (3 or 4) were able to get to the same itunes account per the lic agreement. This was a big help in me being able to manage playlists etc. But I just realized that my spouse's phone doesn't have the playlists now that she is on iCloud.

How can I make it work like before? Is there a URL with more info?

Thanks.

She needs to sign in to iTunes with whatever ID she was using before - there's no problem about her using one ID for iCloud and a different one for iTunes, iTunes in the Cloud and iTunes Match.