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July 18, 2008

MobileMe feature request


I'm down here in SoCal dealing with estate issues with mom, which means it's time to catch up on tech support for her computer. One of the things that allows me to do is get caught up on updates and the usual stuff.

It's also allowing me to clean up the changes involving the .Mac -> MobileMe transition.

that's actually going pretty well, but I've run into a situation where I think Apple needs to add a feature:

I have a family account for MobileMe. right now, it has two accounts on it: cvonrospach (the master) and chuqui. The reason cvonrospach is the master instead of chuqui is historical and mostly braincramps on my part, but I've been using cvonrospach for my .Mac account for a while, but the .Mac account I used at Apple and attached to my iTunes and etc is my original one. With MobileMe I've re-activated that and I'm moving all of my stuff there, but since Back to My Mac was set up on my mom's box to cvonrospach, I was hesitant to try to redefine all of that remotely.

So that's now fixed, and I've now synced me stuff up to MobileMe on chuqui@me.com just fine. But I'd like to also set up mom's mac onto it's own family member account so I can sync her data there separately from mine.

Unfortunately, I ca do one of two things:

1) set up Back to My Mac between my computer(s) and hers.

2) give her a MobileMe account to sync

I can't do both. it'd be really nice (hint hint, Apple!) if Back to my Mac were extended to work across all accounts tied to the same family account, not just machines tied to a given MobileMe account. That way, I could set up my stuff, Laurie hers, my mom hers, my sister here's, all tied to my family pack and still be able to remotely log on to fix things as needed. As it is, I can't.

well, I'll bet there's a hack that would allow me, but I'm trying to avoid hacks in this situation. So apple, please: if it's a family pack, extend back to my mac to all macs attached to that family pack. thanks.

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