Comments on: MobileMe Family Pack looks like an “individual” subscription

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 01 Jan 2011 21:22:00 +0000

I don’t believe you could customize the storage allocation, at least a couple years ago, when I had a MobileMe account.

I actually cancelled my MobileMe account after the first year — with the site instability and cost, it just wasn’t worth it.

My mail and calendars are now served by gmail/Google Apps (which is free), and I share files with my family now with DropBox: https://www.getdropbox.com/referrals/NTE5NTExMDk

DropBox works on Mac, Windows, Linux, AND iPhones and Android. It’s very slick.

By: Phxterp

Phxterp — Sat, 01 Jan 2011 21:13:00 +0000

If you have a family pack (5 accounts) and you want to allocate the provided space, total 40gb’s, into just 2 accounts how would you do that?

I have the master account 20gb’s and my partner has one of the individual family accounts 5gb’s…is there a way for me to give 2 of the remaining account’s space to her (10gb’s) and the last 1 (5gb’s) to me?

By: matthew

matthew — Tue, 04 May 2010 10:37:20 +0000

Yes, the iDisks will show up for the currently logged-in users.

There will be permission issues with those disks if you try to access account “a” while logged in as “b” though.

If you just need hosting, I’d get a hosting plan with verio or slicehost or lunarpages or someone else, though. I had performance issues and uptime problems with me.com.

By: Raoul

Raoul — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 10:17:19 +0000

Hello,

I am using the free trial for the moment. If i upgrade to the family pack, having 2 accounts, will there also appear seperate idisks in finder? I would like to use me.com as webhost and idisk/Web as interface to upload content…2 separate websites, NOT created with iWeb and both with personal domain names.

Thanks

Raoul

By: matthew

matthew — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 07:18:38 +0000

Bummer — I actually decided not to renew my account this year, just because the service was spotty and the integration with iPhoto ’08 was buggy. I switched to picasa, gmail, google calendar, and exporting photos with iWeb to my own server.

By: Kathy

Kathy — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 22:39:46 +0000

I have a family pack but when I follow instructions to add my daughter it only goes to an upgrade option. This stinks!

By: matthew

matthew — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 21:45:03 +0000

Yes, that's how iDisk works. The files on your "virtual hard drive" is only visible to you. If you're worried about something being seen by the "wrong eyes," though, please read this post. It's easy and free. If you want to share specific files with other people (and enable concurrent collaboration), I'd try Dropbox, which gives you 2 GB for free, and has this sort of "share this document with only Sally and Fred" functionality.

By: Christian

Christian — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 18:53:51 +0000

in regards to sharing files on “iDisk” is it possible to set up a family account so info can be kept separate on the “hard drive in the sky?” in other words, access to stored documents would only be assessable to the family member who stores them, not to the entire family?

By: matthew

matthew — Sun, 02 Aug 2009 06:16:14 +0000

You can share files with "iDisk", and subscribe to iPhoto albums you've published to me.com, but dropbox is an easier way to share files between people.

By: tcbritt

tcbritt — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 14:53:07 +0000

I have a question about the mobile me family pack that I havent been able to find an answer for. does this allow two different people to sync two seperate libraries of information from two different computers?