Monday, July 30, 2012

Strange iCloud issues with Mountain Lion on my laptop

A couple of strange things occured when I installed Mountain Lion on my work laptop.  For some reason, there seemed to be a phantom iCloud account which I couldn't initially get rid of.  In Notes, I could see the second account which caused all notes to duplicate, but I couldn't remove it.  When I removed the account from the "Mail, Contacts, and Calendar" preference pane, it would reappear.  Eventually I was able to get things working by some combination of removing the iCloud related keychain entries using Keychain Access, and manually deleting the data files which Notes uses (which I found via the lsof command).

I also had some problems sending iCloud email.  Removing the old Mobile Me smtp setup and removing and re-adding iCloud email seemed to fix it.

I didn't encounter any of these problems in my Mac Pro.  One thing that was different during the install was I didn't get prompted to login into iCloud on the MacBook Pro while I did on the Mac Pro.

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