how do i turn off iCloud and keep my info on my mac?

Hi, thanks guys for the tips on calendar and contacts. But, additionally in iCloud "Documents & Data" as well as "Bookmarks" are also checked. So, doesn't this mean that I will loose that data or at least need to archive it somehow before signing out of iCloud then reload it? The only other thing checked is "Find my Mac". This is why I'm wondering if just doing a Restore from Time Machine is a better option? I'm assuming that when Time Machine is backing up that the data is on the macbook at the time. For instance if I am signed into iCloud, but I don't have iCal open I expect that my calendars is populated on the macbook even though the app isn't open..... It's getting a bit beyond me!!

Anyway, any additional thoughts?

Thanks again.

I like the idea of giving it a shot before signing out of iCloud. I messed around with iCloud (haven't done anything yet) and this message comes up if I begin to sign out of iCloud, which I didn't. Then if I go to the next step I get the second screen shot, which seems to be the only kicker, i.e. Delete Calendar and Reminders from my Mac.

So, it makes it seem like my contacts will in fact stay in tact if I click on the "Keep Contact" link. That would seem to make this whole thing easier yet. I have Lion, maybe this "Keep Contacts" option is only in Lion..... What do you think? I will still need to do the jiving with the Calendars....

Hi Winston, well you can see from above that going thru the routine you laid out got me squared away with contacts, calendars, and reminders. One kicker, (I think because I have Lion and the To Do/Reminder list on the right hand side of the page), is that I had to do the same conceptual game with the reminders on the right hand side as I did with the calendars on the left hand side per your idea.

One other kicker, (maybe again because it is Lion ?) is that when I go to sign out of iCloud or uncheck Documents and Data I get the same message as with Contacts and Calendars, i.e. siging out will cause you to loose your Documents and Data. So perhaps Lion was changed to handle Docs and Data the same as Contacts and Calendars... Unchecking Bookmarks seemed to work as you said, i.e. I didn't loose them in Safari on my Mac.

Now I have to figure out how to save my Documents and Data back to my Mac and off of that iCloud account. That account is bad!! Once I got my Calendars back to 'on my mac" I no longer had any proiblems with inviting others to events which I did when running under that iCloud account.

So, thanks. And, if you have any ideas on how to get my Docs and Data back down out of the clouds and off that corrupt iCloud account, you'd solve another problem for me!! Thanks again.

Well, I think I just found out that when iCloud talks about Documents and Data it something to do with iWork.... So, it doesn't look like it is referring to documents and data I have/create in MS Office, i.e. Word, Excel.... so, I'm gonna uncheck it in iCloud....

I say corrupt because when I was logged into iCloud with that particular Apple ID, inviting someone to an event in iCal did not work. That's the last straw with that ID, and I didn't want to live without the ability to invite.

On this particular iCal problem, I went thru 2 levels of support over the phone and then the genius bar in a store. Bottom line was literally after hours of messing around, everything pointed to that ID signed into iCloud.

Previously, I also had other wierd things happen with that ID, but they weren't show stoppers so I was living with them. For instances, it wouldn't work with Apple Communities, so I had to set up another Apple ID so I could use them. And, the "corrupt" ID didn't want to let me change my password....

I'm not a real technical guy, but have been around since 1401 days and know that things do get corrupted sometime, somehow......