Can't Sign out of iCloud

You've signed out of iCloud.com not iCloud.

system preferences > iCloud > sign out.

Sorry, I didn't look properly. Have you looked in Mail preferences and ensured the account has been removed from there.

Unfortunately, I can't think what might be causing this.

There are 3 locations that might affect this, Mail itself, Mail, Contacts and Calendars in System Preferences and iCloud in System Preferences.

Signing out of iCloud in System Preferences>iCloud should remove the account and not put it back, is this not happening?

Sign out everywhere you can find a sign in option, does Messages Beta have a seperate login?

I'm the same way. MacBookPro, OS X 10.8.2. Keep trying to log out of icloud and it says "Signing Out" with spinning ball and it never stops. OK, I've let it go about an hour before waking up and giving up. Does the same thing on our iMac in the kitchen. CAN sign out fine on all my iOS devices, it's just the Mac OS devices that lock up when trying to sign out. Curious that there are not more posts about this, I guess we're the only ones trying to sign out! 🙂 (btw, I'm just trying to sign out of my .me account to log in to my .icloud account for consistency purposes). I guess Apple wants us to stay in .me>.icloud transition and not be all .icloud yet. This is their way of telling us that? Wondering when the .me>.icloud transition will finally resolve, or are we stuck with both .me and .icloud for the forseeable future?

Thanks for having the same problem!

WonderingOne wrote:

I'm the same way. MacBookPro, OS X 10.8.2. Keep trying to log out of icloud and it says "Signing Out" with spinning ball and it never stops. OK, I've let it go about an hour before waking up and giving up. Does the same thing on our iMac in the kitchen. CAN sign out fine on all my iOS devices, it's just the Mac OS devices that lock up when trying to sign out. Curious that there are not more posts about this, I guess we're the only ones trying to sign out! 🙂 (btw, I'm just trying to sign out of my .me account to log in to my .icloud account for consistency purposes). I guess Apple wants us to stay in .me>.icloud transition and not be all .icloud yet. This is their way of telling us that? Wondering when the .me>.icloud transition will finally resolve, or are we stuck with both .me and .icloud for the forseeable future?

Thanks for having the same problem!

Sorry, I'm not having a problem, perhaps you meant someone else?

iMac 2007 just upgraded to mt lion, had spinning beach ball issues, been working on a fix for three days... Activity monitor shows icloud is hogging ram, now I'm trying to log out of icloud and I have the same issue. Any help?

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I have the same problem.

I have upgraded to Lion - which started the problem - and upgraded to Moutnain Lion to try to fix it, but it just got worse.

I can't sign out of iCloud in system preferences > iCloud.

If I open Contacts, it slows the whole machine down to the point nothing works (eg 3 minutes to open a new finder window). If I deselct Contacts synching in system preferences it turns it back on again as soon as I close preferences, and after a couple of minutes if I leave them open.

Driving me crazy!!!!

Now my last 30 years of contacts has suddenly disappeared from my Contacts.

I backed them up as advised before doing this, but when I try to recover them it only recovers about 10 contacts out of about 5000.

What can I do to get them back???

What is wrong with Apple all of a sudden.

I spent 25 years telling people how great Mac was.

Ever since installing Lion I have not had a single day when I could say anything good about it.

Samo problem here but worse.. Also when I try to sign out of iCloud the spinning wheel appears and 'Icloudhelper' ram usage creeps up and up till it's consuming 4 gigs of ram and then my entire Macbook freezes and becomes completely unusable..

So.. I don't want Icloud.

I go to preferences and see it's there but 'inactive'

I hit the minus button to remove it completely.. it's gone! GOOD!!

I check Icloud and see that I am not signed in. GOOD!!

I open my address book and see that by removing Icloud it deleted all my contacts.. no problem I have a back up...

I go to Address book preferences and make sure that Icloud is removed and that my contacts will ONLY be stord locally on my Mac..

GOOD!

I import my contacts and get this message!!!

WHAT!!! But I just instructed my computer not to do that with all the previous steps!!

So I click CANCEL and check the address book preferences again...

What do I see? That Icloud has reactivated itself and ENABLED itself into my address book preferences!!!

What the ****!!!

SO... I uncheck the Icloud ENABLE option and then watch as Icloud wipes my entire contact list from

my address book!!!

I then go to my Preferences and see that Icloud has in fact turned itself on again and now offers me the option to SIGN OUT!!

SO.. Again I click SIGN OUT.. and repeat the entire process round and around...

It seems that I Icloud refuses to allow me to HAVE or USE my Macbooks address book at all unless it too can have a copy of

all my contacts stored on it's Icloud service...

Can anyone tell me please how on earth can I get rid of Icloud services from my computer entirely!!???

I have tried logging out.. deactivating it.. removing it from all possible preference panes in all applications where that option exists yet

if I dare to put a single address in my address book it's back taking over my life or refusing to let me use my computer as I wish!!

Please Help!!