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Q: I love to experiment. Now I'm stuck.

I recently gave in to my hesitancy and created an iCloud account for my iMac.  Now I am experiencing remorse and want to undo that account. Am I stuck with it? Is all of my data going to be pulled out of my iMac by the Cloud every time I use the iMac? 

iMac, OS X Yosemite (10.10.1)

Posted on Jan 21, 2015 2:25 PM

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Q: I love to experiment. Now I'm stuck.

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  • by Matt Clifton,

    Matt Clifton Matt Clifton Jan 21, 2015 2:26 PM in response to Skepticskip
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    Jan 21, 2015 2:26 PM in response to Skepticskip

    Data is not pulled out of / removed from your Mac when you use iCloud. If you want to turn it off, just turn it off (System Preferences - iCloud - Sign Out). You may be prompted to keep or delete local copies of contacts, calendars, etc - make sure you click Keep.

     

    Matt

  • by Skepticskip,

    Skepticskip Skepticskip Jan 21, 2015 3:13 PM in response to Matt Clifton
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    Jan 21, 2015 3:13 PM in response to Matt Clifton

    Tried your suggestion...didnt work. Matt, I noticed you are using os X Mavericks...I updated my Mac to Yosemite. This might explain the fact that System Preference/iCloud doesn't have a 'keep' option...only  'cancel' or  'delete' from the Mac.   Yet another reason to not upgrade to 10.10.1 Hmmm.

  • by Matt Clifton,

    Matt Clifton Matt Clifton Jan 21, 2015 3:31 PM in response to Skepticskip
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    Jan 21, 2015 3:31 PM in response to Skepticskip

    I'm using Yosemite. I just haven't updated my profile for a while.

     

    So you went to System Preferences - iCloud - and clicked "Sign Out"? What happened? ("Didn't work" isn't a lot of information.)

     

    Matt

  • by Drew Reece,

    Drew Reece Drew Reece Jan 21, 2015 3:55 PM in response to Skepticskip
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    Jan 21, 2015 3:55 PM in response to Skepticskip

    What syncing services have you enabled for iCloud syncing?

     

    Contacts & Calendars have the option to 'export archive' in each of their File menus, do that & you get a copy of the data for safekeeping. When you disable these two services in iCloud you can restore from those backups (without using iCloud again).

     

    I'd also suggest you take a full bootable backup or ensure a Time Machine backup is up to date (a clone seems easier to restore to me). If anything goes wrong a backup may be the only way to recover once it is deleted from the iCloud servers.

     

    Other services may require you to take copies in other ways, e.g. ensure iPhoto has local copies from the photo stream. Move any Documents out of iCloud Drive if you want to stop using that. I would also duplicate ~/Library/Mobile Documents/ to another location to get a second copy of files in iCloud Drive.

     

     

    Apple have this explanation for 10.9, but I can't see a new one for 10.10. Perhaps if you disable services individually you can keep the local copies?

    OS X Mountain Lion: Start or stop using an iCloud service on your Mac

  • by Drew Reece,

    Drew Reece Drew Reece Jan 21, 2015 9:19 PM in response to Skepticskip
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    Jan 21, 2015 9:19 PM in response to Skepticskip

    I just stumbled onto this, seems like it could help you…

    Archive or make copies of your iCloud data - Apple Support