Four devices on iCloud account, only 3 show up in Find My Mac

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Four devices on iCloud account, only 3 show up in Find My Mac

The Situation:

I have 4 devices logged into iCloud with the same Apple ID:

- Mac Pro

- iPhone

- iPad

- Mac Book Pro (3 years old)

All are running the latest, fully patched versions of iOS or Lion.

The prolbem is that the Mac Book Pro does not show up as a device in Find My Mac, regardless of accessing Find My Mac via the iCloud web site or via the app.

Nevertheless, the Mac Book Pro is logged into the correct iCloud account because it correctly, bidirectionally shares contact and calendar and bookmark information with the other three iCloud devices! It just won't show up in Find My Mac.

Attempting to troubleshoot this I took the step of doing a clean install of Lion on this Mac Book Pro, yet the problem continues as above.

So, the question:

How do I determine why the (apparently) only iCloud function that this Mac Book Pro will not join is Find My Mac, while the other iCloud functions perform normally?

Any insights appreciated.

MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.2)

Posted on Dec 4, 2011 7:28 AM

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Answer 1

Dec 4, 2011 11:14 AM in response to Jeff2006makeunique

Do you mean it doesn't show up under devices or it doesn't have a location.

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Answer 2

Dec 4, 2011 11:19 AM in response to Winston Churchill

Do you mean it doesn't show up under devices or it doesn't have a location.

The Mac Book Pro does not show up in the Find My Mac list of devices at all.

Furthermore, I have run DIsk Utility's Repair Drive (no errors found) and Repair Permissions (a few errors found and corrected) from the Recovery Partition, but this did not resolve the problem.

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Answer 3

Dec 4, 2011 11:30 AM in response to Jeff2006makeunique

I'm sure you've checked but just to be sure, Find my mac is checked in the iCloud System Preference Pane and doesn't have any error icons at the side of it. Have you tried turning this setting off and on.

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Answer 4

Dec 4, 2011 11:40 AM in response to Winston Churchill

I'm sure you've checked but just to be sure, Find my mac is checked in the iCloud System Preference Pane and doesn't have any error icons at the side of it. Have you tried turning this setting off and on.

Yes, Find My Mac is checked ON in System Preferences and there are no error indications. And I have turned it off, rebooted, and then turned it back on and rebooted, but to no avail. This Mac Book Pro simply does not show up in Find My Mac even though it is cleaerly logged into iCloud (as described above.) 😟

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