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iCloud crash in system preferences

After I update from 10.7.1 to 10.7.2 on a Mac Pro I have the problem that when I select icloud in system preferences the system crasht. I can only stop system preferences bij menu " force stop"

Add iCloud account in mail,agenda, contacts is also not possible. System preferences hangs and is only forced to stop.

Mac Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.2)

Posted on Oct 18, 2011 1:56 AM

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Oct 18, 2011 10:49 PM in response to wil51

Same here, I hoped a few days and it would right itself but my latest iMac i7 top spec is now as slow as my old 2005 macbook pro, the reason I upgraded to a new mac in the first place! I need to learn Super User Unix access and clear all the icloud accounts from the terminal, but I haven't got the time...

Oct 24, 2011 7:04 AM in response to wil51

Problem solved.

after I was back to 10.7.1 I delete in user account my apple id. Make the update 10.7.2 again. When the screen come up to make a icloud account I do not make a icloud account. I think that the proxyserver of my compagny a problem has with icloud. Everything is working normal now.

Oct 28, 2011 11:25 AM in response to wil51

I too was unable to open the iCloud System Preferences after upgrading from 10.7.1 to 10.7.2.

Looking through the Crash Report, I noticed the following:-


Error Domain=NSCocoaErrorDomain Code=4 "The file “Mail” doesn’t exist."


Now on my Mac the Mail folder is stored within an encrypted sparse bundle, with a symbolic link from the Mai from User/Library/Mail. This has worked fine on Snow Leopard and Lion. When the sparse bundle is attached I can use Mail, otherwise the system doesn't complain. But with 10.7.2 System Preferences for iCloud now crashes.


So the simple solution in my case was simply to make the Mail files available again, by opening the sparse bundle on which they are contained. Then iCloud System Preferences works again.


For anyone interested, here are the 1st few lines of the traceback:-


*** First throw call stack:

(

0 CoreFoundation 0x00007fff85998286 __exceptionPreprocess + 198

1 libobjc.A.dylib 0x00007fff847c7d5e objc_exception_throw + 43

2 Message 0x00007fff83efe012 __-[MFAccountStorage _accountsPlistPath]_block_invoke_1 + 412

3 libdispatch.dylib 0x00007fff86e0f224 dispatch_once_f + 53

4 Message 0x00007fff83efde6d -[MFAccountStorage _accountsPlistPath] + 33

5 Message 0x00007fff83efddac -[MFAccountStorage objectForKey:] + 140

6 Message 0x00007fff83efdcdf -[MFAccountStorage arrayForKey:] + 20

iCloud crash in system preferences

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