09/29/2004, 9:20am, EDT

Wednesday, September 29th

.Mac web services down, second outage in two days

Apple today acknowledged more problems with its .Mac service. In an announcement this morning, the company said that its .Mac Web-based services are currently unavailable. The company yesterday suffered an email outage due to delivery problems, but said that the outage, which was resolved later in the day, only affected a small number of users. According to a message on its website, Apple says that iDisk and client-based services (like email, Mac Slides Publisher, and iCal) are unaffected by outage, but Apple provided no time-frame for resolution of the problems. .Mac members pay an annual fee for a suite of web services--many of which are bundled in to Mac OS X for easy access.

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Sydney Tsai

But the status is online

09/29, 10:07am, EDT

It has no problem at all.

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torifile

.mac's been disappointin

09/29, 10:12am, EDT

I'm not one to get on the "bash .mac' bandwagon but these outages have been too common. Yesterday both I and my wife suffered from the email problems. WIth her trying to set up meetings and hear from employers, we were NOT happy at all. This is especially bad since our renewal is in about 2 weeks. Should we renew? At this point, I don't know.

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QuatermassX

STORAGE UPGRADE!! :-)

09/29, 10:26am, EDT

They were affected by the LOVELY HUGE storage upgrade!

:-)

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firefly007

More iDisk

09/29, 10:29am, EDT

My iDisk reports that I have 125 MB now

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ottawayogi

125 MB

09/29, 10:39am, EDT

I was very happy to read about the storage upgrade as my iDisk is 99% full - and I was having trouble justifying the cost of extra storage. Though, the total capacity of my iDisk has only been raised 25 MB to 125 MB. I'm guessing that this is a little upgrade "glitch" that Apple is presently dealing with.

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harbinger42

Floating max storage

09/29, 11:10am, EDT

Sweet, you can now modify where you want the total 250MB to go in .Mac. I set mine to 50MB mail / 200MB iDisk. And the 10MB max email is so much better than that measly little 3MB.

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MacnTX

Upgrade

09/29, 12:45pm, EDT

There wasn't any "problem" this morning at all. Thanks for the upgrade Apple!

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