Hi Andy, On your mac if you do the VO + M which should bring up your apple menu, Scrole down this menu Should be twice and you should find system preferences Then once this opens, Use your tab key to move one by one through the sys pref options,
You will find internet and then an icloud, Or vise versa Open the icloud preference and take it from there, Once you have signed into that feature you should also have a table that with Vo shift and down arrow open the list / table of different features that icloud gives you Go through them and see if you can disable or add / enable the ones you want / don’t want Tap with the space bar enables / disables. Hope this helps with the issues and great work sitting down over a pint or 5 and playing around. That’s all you need to do, And slowly things will work out. Wish I had a bar that close. Simon F From: 'andy' via MacVisionaries <macvisionaries@googlegroups.com> Sent: Friday, 20 April 2018 7:58 PM To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Further to earlier mail re playing audio content on my Mac Hi Tim Steve and all who have responded to this thread. Steve got me thinking about my particular problem, which was confirmed by Tim. Despite getting the following message: "Application Alert - System Dialogue - - This Mac cannot connect to Icloud because of a problem with meikle.ai...@btinternet.com<mailto:meikle.ai...@btinternet.com>". "Open System Preferences of Icloud to fix this problem" I was down in the hotel yesterday attempting once again to go throu these steps that Tim recommended. When I went into extras and wi-fi, the Kilcreggan hotel came up and I was told that wi-fi was indeed turned on. So I spent the rest of the day messing around with Safari and it proved correct that my computer was indeed on line., and I learned a lot about surfing the net. Tim said that the above error message can be prevented from showing up by: "If the connection to Wi-Fi was already established, but this error message appeared anyway, then you'd need to enter the password in System Preferences to have it not continue bothering you. This message was fairly common in El Capitan, especially when you didn't use your computer in a while. There should be a button on this error message that will take you directly to the proper pane of System Preferences, which is the Internet Accounts pane. If it does not straight away ask you for your iCloud password, then you may need to press the Sign Out button then the Sign In button. I would suggest that this iCloud is likely your Apple ID, so you will need to enter the username and password for your Apple ID to allow the MacOS to access iCloud services. As a matter of interest, although I don't necessarily recommend it, you could press the "Later" button in this error dialog and go on your merry way. That is, you don't need to be signed into these services in order to access FaceTime or messages. You can simply open those apps specifically, enter your Apple ID and password and they are ready to use". I'm trying to find "system preferences" that Tim is talking about and I do have my username and password at hand, if asked for them, but again, I cannot seem to find where I'm going. Can someone tell me how to get to System Preferences on my Macbook and where I should type in any details that are asked of me. Sorry once again guys for a lengthy message. I'm hoping to get professional help with my Macbook from SITE Glasgow shortly, which would sort out all of these problems but I feel that by trying to sort them out myself with your help will teach me how the Apple OS works. Very best wishes. Andy. >From Scotland with Love. ----- Original Message ----- From: Tim Kilburn<mailto:kilbu...@me.com> To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com<mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com> Sent: Tuesday, April 17, 2018 3:41 PM Subject: Re: Further to earlier mail re playing audio content on my Mac Hi, Steve is spot on. This message is not necessarily saying that you are not connected to the Internet, it is simply telling you that your login credentials for iCloud are not valid at the moment. It is possible that the problem has happened because you actually are not connected to the Internet, which would mean that all you need to do is press VO-m-m to access the Extras menu, VO-right to the WiFi menu, VO-space on it to open the menu, then VO-down to your WiFi network, and finally press VO-space or return to connect to that WiFi network. If you've never been connected to the network in the past, then you'll be asked for the password if one was set. Enter the password and press return. You are now connected to the Internet. You would then be able to access FaceTime and such. If the connection to WiFi was already established, but this error message appeared anyway, then you'd need to enter the password in System Preferences to have it not continue bothering you. This message was fairly common in El Capitan, especially when you didn't use your computer in a while. There should be a button on this error message that will take you directly to the proper pane of System Preferences, which is the Internet Accounts pane. If it does not straight away ask you for your iCloud password, then you may need to press the Sign Out button then the Sign In button. I would suggest that this iCloud is likely your Apple ID, so you will need to enter the username and password for your Apple ID to allow the MacOS to access iCloud services. As a matter of interest, although I don't necessarily recommend it, you could press the "Later" button in this error dialog and go on your merry way. That is, you don not need to be signed into these services in order to access FaceTime or iMessages. You can simply open those apps specifically, enter your Apple ID and password and they are ready to use. HTH. Later... Tim Kilburn Apple Teacher Fort McMurray, AB Canada On Apr 16, 2018, at 18:22, Steve Matzura <numb...@noisynotes.com<mailto:numb...@noisynotes.com>> wrote: If no one has told you as yet, may I be the first, that message has absolutely nothing to do with your ability to connect to a local Wi-Fi network. That message is telling you either your iCloud username or password is wrong. That's all. On 4/15/2018 2:17 PM, 'andy' via MacVisionaries wrote: Hi Simon, Andrew, others and Steve. Thankyou all for offering me your help with Skype or facebook or by email, in respect to helping me play audio content on my Mac. One of the big attractions for me to get a Macbook was because I could talk with my family in Sydney and Canada by using Facetime. Unfortunately, I've not progressed far enough to set these facilities up. The main reason is that I cannot connect to the internet on my Macbook. Other devices such as my Iphone, my Wife's Dell lap-top and my Window 7 computer are all coping with the wired or wy fy facilities of my roughter, so the problems I am having lay within my Macbook. Here is what is happening. When I boot up my Macbook and after the standard introduction, I get the following message: "Application Alert - System Dialogue - - This Mac cannot connect to Icloud because of a problem with meikle.ai...@btinternet.com<mailto:meikle.ai...@btinternet.com>". "Open System Preferences of Icloud to fix this problem" So obviously I'm not on-line and before I can go further in my learning with music, I really need to be able to resolve this. Despite several attempts at going into System Preferences, I just end up in a maize. You see, I simply don't have the knowledge or skills to mess around in there. If this makes my position a little clearer, then that's great and I'd welcome any advice. I have however managed to get one-to one help from SITE Glasgow shortly but because I'm going to be on holiday for a week, I cannot get this support for a few weeks. I was actually thinking of taking my Macbook to Spain with me on holiday and spend most evenings going through, Janet Ingber's wonderful book. Perhaps I may well yet. I go on holiday on 21 May for 1 week, so perhaps I can resolve this issue befor then. Very best wishes and thanks again for your on-going support. Very best wishes. Andy. >From Scotland with Love. -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries list. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. Your Mac Visionaries list moderator is Mark Taylor. 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