Uninstall ical & ditch icloud

Other than that, on the plus side it does come in a nice shiny silver box and looks quite pretty with it's illuminated logo on the lid!

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Yeah, thanks Kappy, I think I may have thought of that myself! I have tried to turn off icloud, but can I? It seems to have other ideas! Advice on exactly how might be appreciated? Also, I never once opened ical, but once again IT insists upon poking it's unwanted nose in. I am trying to work in MS Outlook and would be happy for i-everything else to butt out as it is unsolicited and not required. Again, any real help in getting rid of the program would be welcome.

Thanks

Hmm.. that's once again very helpful ..... not, thanks Kappy! I'm assuming you are as clueless as you are polite. Anyone else able to help perhaps?

Nothing MORE? nope, I guess not! Thanks for all the err.. help.

I'm quite happy to have people poke fun at me (I even did it myself in my original question) I just have to wonder at the mentality of such an insecure individual as to feel the need to be offensive on a personal level, regarding an IT issue (I find this bizarre in the extreme). There certainly seems to be a little 'insecurity' in this community, I only wonder if it has something to do with the indefensible nature of some of the 'buggy' coding and an inane, inexplicable loyalty toward a badly flawed OS.

So in answer to your response; yes there is nothing more for you to do here, so please free to run along and I will miss YOU.... not.

I repeat; is there anyone (else) who can offer any genuine assistance with my issue?

Applicants beginning with K and rhyming with 'crappy' need not reply 😉

Thanks Roger! I seem to have some very bizarre problems with my 'Apple ID'/profile/whatever. I can sign in, in response to the repeated pop ups (several times during a session), but when I try to change anything within Sys Prefs, and my Apple ID is asked for it just 'freezes' (shows the animated 'rotating wheel', but never logs in so that I have to escape out) Unchecking calendars didn't seem to work either, severely frustrating! 😟

Thanks again Roger, I suspect you are correct that there is some kind of corruption going on. I certainly have no fear of resetting preference, that's the least of my concerns. Think I'll move the plist to another folder first though, just in case. I'll let you know how it goes. Thanks again!

Well, deleting the plists (or at least removing them to another folder) didn't work 😟 but within the preferences I managed to delete the accounts. They magically reappear (repopulate) and unchecking calendars didn't work either, as a moment or two later the check mark reappears(***?!) What I seem to have managed to do, which is working until now, is to delete the accounts and before they reappear, add them using my sign in data, (which appears to reset everything rather bizarely) and THEN unchecking all the services except for chat (which I am never going to use). Until this moment it has been working, ie hasn't popped up any reminders or asked me sign in to any accounts, but time will tell I guess. Honestly, in all my time using PCs/Macs/whatever I have never encountered a more irritatingly corrupt, bug-ridden bunch of badly thrown together software, this '*****' to use the vernacular of the age. Fingers crossed this **** thing continues to work. There are certain functions I like on it, but a **** of a lot of it is just downright maddening and frustrating! Thanks to those who have and continue to offer help!

Wow! Sorry to offend the sensibilities of the community with profanities such as W T F, $uck$ and d@mn respectively. I guess I was just raised as a jolly old 'potty-mouth'! Hahaha!