How can you move from icloud back to mobileme?

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How can you move from icloud back to mobileme?

After attempting to move to icloud, I learned that I did not have the Lion OS. I also learned that if I purchased and installed Lion OS the Microsoft Office applications and Quicken would not work. At this time I am going to stay with Mobileme, at least until June. When I go into System Preferences and select the Mobileme icon the Account Status status "Your MobileMe Account has been upgraded to icloud." How do I remove any link or connections to icloud and move back to MobileMe?

iMac, Mac OS X (10.6.8)

Posted on Jan 5, 2012 4:55 PM

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Answer 1

roaminggnome

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Jan 5, 2012 4:56 PM in response to JP48

You cannot go back to mobileme.

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JP48 Author

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Jan 5, 2012 5:06 PM in response to roaminggnome

If I cannot go back to MM, then it appears I cannot sync my calendars or contacts with my other Apple computer. I am not using the correct OS and I don't have an icould icon in my system applications, so it appears I loose previous functionality with MM.

Thanks for your reponse.

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Answer 3

Jan 6, 2012 1:11 AM in response to JP48

Having moved to iCloud and having Snow Leopard, this is the situation:

Your email, calendars, and 'Find my iPhone' will be migrated to iCloud. Contacts and Bookmarks cannot be migrated from a Snow Leopard Mac.
Your iDisk, together with website hosting and Gallery, will continue to work as before until next June.
Syncing of Dashboard Widgets, Dock Items and Keychains between Macs, and Mail Accounts, Mail Rules, System Preferences, Signatures & Smart Mailboxes between Macs & iOS devices, will cease altogether.
You will be able to access email and calendars on the iCloud website at http://icloud.com provided your browser is reasonably up-to-date.
You will not be able to sync contacts or bookmarks from a pre-Lion Mac.
You will be able to enter the server settings for email manually in the Mail application and access your email.
You will not be able to sync your calendars directly.
Some people have been able to set up calendar syncing by using the method detailed here - this is an unsupported hack and may not be reliable, and may stop working at some future point. BusyCal is an iCal-like calendar application with extra facilities: it can sync with the iCloud Calendar while running on Leopard, Snow Leopard or Lion.
There appears to be no method of syncing contacts (though Address Book on a Mac can be synced with Google or Yahoo address books - I don't know how reliable this is).

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Answer 4

Jan 6, 2012 1:15 AM in response to JP48

You can use icloud with snow leopard, but you need to manually set it up using imap and caldav only, all the other features will not be avaliable.

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