Does anyone have any idea how to a) stop my Mac Pro requesting my iCloud password every time I use Mail? (not the mail password, the iCloud one) even if it's been a few seconds since I did it b) get iMessage to actually login? It works on all my other machines but refuses to on the Mac Pro because of 'an error'. This is OS level because booting from a Mavericks disk, it works. Going back to my start-up OR the clone of it gives me the error. I've replaced preferences etc to no avail.
I've had problems with these two issues since going to Yosemite and even reinstalled the OS from scratch hoping to fix them. Combined with iTunes Match losing a third of my music and not letting me get to stuff I've bought, I'm feeling more irritated with Apple's services than ever in the last 20 years. At one point, it was refusing to let me use Back to my Mac because (apparently) I didn't have a Recovery Disk installed (not that I had done anything to avoid having one). The reason I'm listing them all is that I suspect they are related but I can't work out *how* they're related. In a strange footnote, my ex said the other day that a lot of my iTunes stuff is listed on *her* iTunes Match (and, when I looked, vice versa) but we always kept stuff in separate libraries in separate user accounts (albeit on the same machine which was duly authorised for both). Match 'lost' a third of my music (about 30 gigs of 110) so I'm no longer relying on it (back to multiple local back-ups for me!). And I would stress to anyone relying on it to do the same -- include iTunes media in Time Machine and preferably a separate regular back-up of another kind. Without that, I would have no access to a lot of music I bought on iTunes... (their support people are being about as useless as they can get -- 'have you tried logging out and in again?' 'Ring this number for more support'...) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Sussex Mac User Group" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/smug. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
