The move from MobileMe to iCloud saw a number of services dropped that some of us had come to depend on. There’s a way to get at least some of them back.
Keychain Sync
On one of your Macs:
mv ~/Library/Keychains ~/Library/Mobile\ Documents/
ln -s ~/Library/Mobile\ Documents/Keychains ~/Library/Keychains
Then on each of the other Macs:
mv ~/Library/Keychains ~/Desktop
ln -s ~/Library/Mobile\ Documents/Keychains ~/Library/Keychains
iDisk / Dropbox
You can of course use this trick to create yourself a little iDisk/Dropbox too:
On one of your Macs:
mkdir ~/Library/Mobile\ Documents/iDisk
ln -s ~/Library/Mobile\ Documents/iDisk ~/iDisk
Then on each of the other Macs:
ln -s ~/Library/Mobile\ Documents/iDisk ~/iDisk
Warning: This isn't actually going to merge multiple changes to your keychain – the latest one modified will prevail – and so if for some reason you deleted it from one Mac (or signed out of iCloud), it would also go on the others. The behaviour is also uncertain if two copies changed simultaneously.
Caveat: Don’t blame me if this doesn’t work / you lose all of your data / this breaks the ToS for your iCloud account.
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I’ve just received the warning I need to upgrade my mobile me…. how is this fix working out for you? This is the one thing that really drives me mad about iCloud…
It worked for a while for me, then one of my Macs got confused and created a second Mobile Documents directory and from then on would ask for my iCloud credentials which was annoying. I fixed that once, using some cunning removing-and-adding-of-iCloud but it could come back. How are you still using MobileMe? Just via web, or have you stuck to Snow Leopard?
It’s sounding like Mountain Lion might reintroduce some of the lost MobileMe syncing functionality – look at the “Many USers One Account” section in this article at MacWorld. That would be great if true.
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