I have and Ipad Air, an Iphone 6, and Eril an Iphone 5 and an only wifi Ipad Mini. Somehow I have ended up with all my pics, vids etc going to Icloud. I keep getting messages saying I am almost out of space, I take it that they want me to buy more than the free 5gb. Wishful thinking!!! I have searched the web and learnt quite a bit BUT not enough to download my info and close my Icloud account.
What is wrong with me that I can't understand the instructions to do this
Aussie Paul.
Dougwe said
06:44 PM Apr 29, 2016
You don't speak Chinese mate
ballast2 said
08:40 PM Apr 29, 2016
G'day Paul. As that fabulous redhead often said " Please explain"
Cheers Jack.
Bushpie said
08:52 PM Apr 29, 2016
Dont close it down, just clean it out.....if you need to keep it on the cloud you will be able to shift it to another free storage place. Or save it all to a seperate back up disk. Once saved then you can delete it all out of the cloud and start all over again.
Its quick and easy..........
Bushpie said
09:07 PM Apr 29, 2016
Further to this if you go into settings on your device........you would need to do it in each one........
In settings find icloud.........then you can find each each thing the icloud stores like photos, documents etc etc and youcan turn them off so things dont go there.........but
Be warned........... If you turn off or delete and your device crashes you lose them.....especially photoes .....so i suggest you keep it all turned on because then you can access them from a new device or someone eles if you need to....
aussie_paul said
10:29 PM Apr 29, 2016
Ok, thanks. I will attack the problem tomorrow with the new advice.
Aussie Paul.
Bushpie said
12:59 AM May 1, 2016
aussie_paul wrote:
Ok, thanks. I will attack the problem tomorrow with the new advice.
Aussie Paul.
So how did your adventurous day go with this Paul
aussie_paul said
12:53 PM May 2, 2016
Bushpie wrote:
So how did your adventurous day go with this Paul
I finally have all Icloud devices turned off so that nothing goes to Icloud for the moment. Still not sure how to download what is left on Icloud so I can then gradually fill it again!!! Son Matt is going to organise a back up system for my devices.
Aussie Paul.
LLD said
05:27 PM May 2, 2016
I've got an Apple desktop with a 1TB drive, a 4TB network drive and 2 x 2TB external hard drives which are normally turned off. Wife has an iPhone. We both have android tablets and I have an android phone. Below may all sound like an overkill, but I rely so much on my computer and treasure my security (backing up and iCloud being hacked)
I save all my "dynamic" files to the default directory - "Documents" folder that is the default for saving everything in (word, spreadsheets etc.). On day 1 of every month I make a new folder on the 4TB drive and copy the Documents folder there. I then copy that new folder back to my desktop. By doing it this way, I minimise losing everything should there be a power failure whilst backing up. All the monthly backups on the seperate 4TB drive allows me to rebuild my desktop should it become corrupt. Also allows me to go back in time.
All music and photos are saved on the 4TB drive then loaded back to the desktop using iTunes and and iPhoto(?) so this automatically gives me backup. The balance of the 4TB drive is stuff I've downloaded off the internet that I can re-get if I lose the 4TB drive. However, every six months or so I backup all my desktop hard drive and hard-to-retrieve internet files from 4TB drive on each 2TB drives. Takes days. If everything goes pear-shaped when copying, I still have all my original important files on one of my 2TB drives.
Before the 4TB network drive, I just backed up my desktop to one 2TB drive one month and the other drive the next month. Prior to that I just burned a DVD each month.
This all enables me to keep everything secure, backed up and useable when the internet crashes. Don't really trust these "clouds" for important / private stuff.
I have setup my desktop, and android devices to use my Google account for e-mail, calendar and contacts. Update on one device and it updates to Google and the syncs to the others. Nothing super confidential here should someone hack Google.
I have and Ipad Air, an Iphone 6, and Eril an Iphone 5 and an only wifi Ipad Mini. Somehow I have ended up with all my pics, vids etc going to Icloud. I keep getting messages saying I am almost out of space, I take it that they want me to buy more than the free 5gb. Wishful thinking!!! I have searched the web and learnt quite a bit BUT not enough to download my info and close my Icloud account.
What is wrong with me that I can't understand the instructions to do this
Aussie Paul.
You don't speak Chinese mate
G'day Paul. As that fabulous redhead often said " Please explain"
Cheers Jack.
Its quick and easy..........
In settings find icloud.........then you can find each each thing the icloud stores like photos, documents etc etc and youcan turn them off so things dont go there.........but
Be warned........... If you turn off or delete and your device crashes you lose them.....especially photoes .....so i suggest you keep it all turned on because then you can access them from a new device or someone eles if you need to....
Ok, thanks. I will attack the problem tomorrow with the new advice.
Aussie Paul.
So how did your adventurous day go with this Paul
I finally have all Icloud devices turned off so that nothing goes to Icloud for the moment. Still not sure how to download what is left on Icloud so I can then gradually fill it again!!! Son Matt is going to organise a back up system for my devices.
Aussie Paul.
I save all my "dynamic" files to the default directory - "Documents" folder that is the default for saving everything in (word, spreadsheets etc.). On day 1 of every month I make a new folder on the 4TB drive and copy the Documents folder there. I then copy that new folder back to my desktop. By doing it this way, I minimise losing everything should there be a power failure whilst backing up. All the monthly backups on the seperate 4TB drive allows me to rebuild my desktop should it become corrupt. Also allows me to go back in time.
All music and photos are saved on the 4TB drive then loaded back to the desktop using iTunes and and iPhoto(?) so this automatically gives me backup. The balance of the 4TB drive is stuff I've downloaded off the internet that I can re-get if I lose the 4TB drive. However, every six months or so I backup all my desktop hard drive and hard-to-retrieve internet files from 4TB drive on each 2TB drives. Takes days. If everything goes pear-shaped when copying, I still have all my original important files on one of my 2TB drives.
Before the 4TB network drive, I just backed up my desktop to one 2TB drive one month and the other drive the next month. Prior to that I just burned a DVD each month.
This all enables me to keep everything secure, backed up and useable when the internet crashes. Don't really trust these "clouds" for important / private stuff.
I have setup my desktop, and android devices to use my Google account for e-mail, calendar and contacts. Update on one device and it updates to Google and the syncs to the others. Nothing super confidential here should someone hack Google.