How do i turn off Mobile Me sync? It paralyzes my machine!

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How do i turn off Mobile Me sync? It paralyzes my machine!

I no longer have my MobileMe account, but the MobileMe sync icon is still at the top right of my screen and periodically tries to identify sync conflicts (it says there are 24) and then totally slows down my machine to a crawl and the spinning wheel spins whenever I hover my mouse over the dialogue screen. Even if I hit review, it goes super slow. I just want it to go away. How do I make that happen? I have an ca. 2008-early 09 iMac with 2.8 Core 2 Duo processor and 2 GB 800 Mhz DDR2 SDRAM... Thanks for any help you can give me!

iMac (24-inch Early 2008), Mac OS X (10.6.8), 2 GB 800 Mhz SDRAM, 1 TB HDD

Posted on Mar 18, 2013 10:31 AM

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mende1

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Mar 18, 2013 10:49 AM in response to CanoeMac

Welcome to the Apple Support Communities

First of all, open System Preferences > MobileMe, and log out the MobileMe account. Then, hold the Command key and drag the MobileMe sync icon from the menu bar to the Desktop, so this icon will disappear

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CanoeMac Author

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Mar 18, 2013 12:08 PM in response to mende1

Thanks for your quick reply! I had already logged out in System Preferences, which is what made this so frustrating - I did now do as you suggested and dragged the MobileMe sync icon to the desktop and it did disappear. Will this now make it stop trying to sync? Thanks for your help!

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mende1

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Mar 18, 2013 12:13 PM in response to CanoeMac

I doubt that just dragging off the MobileMe sync icon will stop syncing, but check if this happens

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CanoeMac Author

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Mar 22, 2013 8:21 AM in response to mende1

You're right - it didn't stop it from re-ocurring and the icon actually reappear - I then dumped it onto the desktop again and it is gone again for now... does anyone have insight into how to just remove all memory of MobileMe from my machine? I don't even know what it's trying to sync with anymore - I stopped using it a couple years ago when Apple phased it out, and the syncing never worked very well anyways.... apparently even Steve Jobs recognized, admitted, and was frustrated by that and that's why it went away and iCloud came in... sigh... I love my Apple products, including my iMac, it just would be great if I could get rid of this... any additional help from anyone would be much appreciated!

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Mar 22, 2013 9:27 AM in response to CanoeMac

Go to (user)/Library/Preferences/ByHost and remove all .plist files beginning with com.apple.DotMac or com.apple.idisk, then reboot.

Also open Applications/iSync (it's this program which actually owns the syn icon) and make sure that nothing is set up there.

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Davidb77

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May 7, 2014 12:28 PM in response to CanoeMac

Open the application iSync. Open the preferences of iSync once the proram is open and showing in the Finder. De-select the options to sync mobile me and to show in the menu bar.

Close iSync.

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May 7, 2014 2:15 PM in response to Davidb77

Doing that will also stop any other syncing that may be going on in SyncServices. If still signed into MobileMe, its prefs pane is the place to stop the syncing, but if you are signed out you can't, hence the .plist deletions I suggested (a year ago....).

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