iCloud question when upgrading from 10.6.5 to Mountain Lion

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iCloud question when upgrading from 10.6.5 to Mountain Lion

I'm running 10.6.5 on my Mid 2010 15" MBP. I was also a MobileMe user.

Now I'm thinking about upgrading to Mountain Lion upon it's release, and have questions to help me decide if I want to use iCloud or not.

1) I have zero interest in Lion and want to skip it, going directly to Mountain Lion. Can this be done?

2) If I choose to use iCloud, during setup, one is given a list of checkboxes for the items they want to sync. One checkbox is labeled "documents & data".

Once this box is checked and a sycn is executed, what specific files are uploaded from my MacBook Pro?

Do I have control over what goes up into iCloud? Initially my iCloud usage would be mostly data files, I would want to choose which files go to the cloud and which files remain on my hard drive. Is this possible?

The amount of control over what goes into the cloud is my main concern. If I have total control, then iCloud will be great. If not then I will use another solution.

Thanks

Mac OS X (10.6.5)

Posted on Jun 28, 2012 11:43 AM

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varjak paw

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Jun 28, 2012 1:29 PM in response to wirelessmacbookpro

1) Yes.

http://www.apple.com/osx/how-to-upgrade/

2) Unless I've missed something or things are different in Mountain Lion, only documents from applications that support the iCloud "documents in the cloud" feature. I know that the iWork suite does, and there may be other apps that do as well.

http://support.apple.com/kb/PH2705

If you want broad access for any type of document with complete control, another service such as Dropbox might suit you better, at least at present. Apple has indicated that they have plans to continue to improve and better integrate iCloud, so in the future it might be a better solution.

Regards.

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Answer 2

Jun 28, 2012 9:59 PM in response to varjak paw

Thank you so very much for your excellent guidance.

I appreciate your courteous, timely and professional response.

The links were very helpful.

My problem is Solved!

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varjak paw

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Jun 29, 2012 7:06 AM in response to wirelessmacbookpro

Happy to have been of help. Cheers.

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Answer 4

Jul 9, 2012 9:29 AM in response to wirelessmacbookpro

Before you can install OS X 10.8 you may need to update your Mac to OS X 10.6.8 using the free updater. I'm not sure that your OS X 10.6.5 has the Mac App Store that will be needed to buy 10.8.

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Answer 5

Jul 9, 2012 4:59 PM in response to William-Boyd-Jr

Yes, that's true.

After I did some checking I determined that the first version of OS X Snow Leopard that includes the Mac App Store is 10.6.6. Furthermore I learned that I must have 10.6.8 as you mentioned to entitle me to purchase 10.8.x

I'm very impressed and pleased with the courteous fast responses here, as well as the detailed help. Being new to Mac, it's very refreshing to enjoy such a nice experience.

Thank You!

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Jul 9, 2012 5:05 PM in response to wirelessmacbookpro

wirelessmacbookpro wrote:

I'm very impressed and pleased with the courteous fast responses here, as well as the detailed help. Being new to Mac, it's very refreshing to enjoy such a nice experience.

We're glad to be able to help. The reputation points earned are nice too. 😉

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Answer 7

Jul 12, 2012 8:10 AM in response to wirelessmacbookpro

One other thing before you upgrade past OS X 10.6: Check this site to see if your critical apps are compatible with a newer OS X. In particular, no PPC (non-Intel) apps will run on OS X 10.7 or 10.8.

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Answer 8

Jul 12, 2012 9:26 AM in response to William-Boyd-Jr

Wow... I can't believe I didn't think about that.

However even if I had, I was unaware of the site you posted the link to. That is a really terrific resource, thank you.

I'm glad I take my time before doing these things, otherwise I might have really mucked it up 🙂

Thanks Again, You've made my day!

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Answer 9

Jul 26, 2012 2:56 PM in response to wirelessmacbookpro

For some reason mountain lion is having a hard time syncing with my old icloud account. I had to create a new apple id for my iphone 4s, ipad 2 and macbook pro. That solved the problem. I hope apple would find a solution for this one.

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