.Mac calling in sick today
In what appears to be a clear case of "Mental Health Day Syndrome," the .Mac website has been down for much of the afternoon. Email and Homepage/iWeb services appear to be up, though, and I'm able to connect to my iDisk, so the plumbing is still operational.Our tipsters note that the site was down for quite a while before the 'maintenance' page went up, so it's possible that this is not a planned outage. If we hear anything else we'll pass it
along. Update: Although I personally can get to the services noted above, comments point out that the .Mac service page is showing red lights across the board except for some users able to get mail.
Update 2: As of 5:05pm ET it looks like everything is green again, with the exception of .Mac Sync still showing issues for some users.
Thanks to everyone who sent this in.
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In what appears to be a clear case of "Mental Health Day Syndrome," the .Mac website has been down for much of the afternoon. Email and...
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I was frustrated with not being able to get rid of the .mac menu bar item as well. I found out by holding the option+command key at the same time I could then drag the icon off of the menu bar.
November 06 2007 at 4:53 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Replyback to my mac has been very intermittent for me. sometimes i can connect, sometimes i can't... sometimes my other computer doesn't even show up. i'm under the impression this is common and probably has a role in all of these .mac issues.
November 02 2007 at 12:44 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply@ #13 Gene Cowan.
System preference was the first place I checked to get rid of the .mac menu bar item, and at least on my system it was definitely not there. I'll try your command drag tip though, thanks for the help!
Jon
To remove the .Mac menu item, go to .Mac in the System Preferences, then uncheck "Show status in menu bar."
Or, if you want it REALLY simple, you can remove any menu bar icon by command-dragging it out of the menu bar.
dot mac sync has been yellow for days now...I wonder if it has something to do with many peoples "back to my mac", including myself, not working? Has anyone been able to get the back to my mac feature to work??
November 01 2007 at 7:45 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyI love .Mac!
Kinda was a pain when it went down this morning.
Perfect timing! My main email/website went down...and back up email AT THE SAME TIME! That just blows...
November 01 2007 at 5:30 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplySpeaking of .mac, anyone know how to get rid of it's menubar item?
I don't use .mac so I'd really like clear that icon.
speaking of .mac...anyone know how to get rid of the .mac menubar item in leopard?
I don't use .mac and hate having useless (to me) icons in the menubar.
On another note... I'll bet they are selling a lot of .mac subscriptions and/or iLife '08 with Leopard having just come out. That could have something to do with it. Upgrades, etc.
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