Change primary iCloud account to another iCloud account?

While testing 10.7.2/iCloud before official launch, I created an iCloud account. At that time, the option to convert from MobileMe was not available, so I created a new Apple/iCloud ID. After iCloud officially launched, I converted my MoblieMe acount as per Apple's instructions.


I now have two iCloud accounts. But the developer account is considered the primary account. This means that most of the iCloud functionality is not available under the second account. Worse, most of my MobileMe calendar and contacts is now available only under that primary iCloud account and I can't figure out how to move it back to the converted MobileMe account. Simply deleting the account on my iMac seems to have no effect on the status or functionality of the other account -- the "primary" account still lives on in Apple's servers, apparently -- and the only effect on my iMac is to lose all my calendar/contacts/etc. data.


Is there a way to select which iCloud account to use as the primary account? And any way to subsequently merge the data from the two accounts?


Thanks!


P.S. Anyone else finding it hard to type "iCloud"? I keep typing "iCould."

iMac 27, Mac OS X (10.7), 1TB TC, Airport Express, Airport Extreme,

Posted on Oct 14, 2011 9:33 PM

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Apr 9, 2015 12:58 PM in response to Roger Wilmut1

Not sure whether it's safe to post on this older threat but I'll give it a shot. I found out that somehow on 1 machine (MBP on 10.9.5) the secondary account was set to primary. The other machines have the right primary account. I followed the suggestions made here and are now logging back in on Sys prefs > iCloud with my primary account but the machine is logging in is now for over 5 minutes with the wheel next to the log in button still spinning. Is this normal behaviour?

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