Remove Mobile Me MobileMe icon & System Preferences pane Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard

Submitted by BeatnikDude on Fri, 01/09/2009 - 16:21

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Remove MobileMe icon from Menu Bar in Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard

I don't use MobileMe, I don't want monthly charges nor do I want to store my data elsewhere. So needless to say I don't want a MobileMe icon on my finder bar, so I remove it. It's so easy, literally click and drag it off the menu bar:

  • Hold down the command key drag the Mobile Me icon off the menu bar

You can also remove or reorder most of the icons in the top right finder bar in Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard in this way.

Remove MobileMe MobileMe System Preferences pane in Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard

While you are at it, you may also want to remove the MobileMe System Preferences pane. No reason to look at extra stuff in your OS X system preferences either. To remove the offending Preference pane simply remove two files by entering the following command via the terminal.

sudo rm /System/Library/PreferencePanes/Mac.prefPane
sudo rm /System/Library/PreferencePanes/Internet.prefPane

Note: The sudo command is only for use by users who take responsibility for their own actions. These files may be replaced during future system updates.

Comments

Nobody (not verified)

Thu, 01/07/2010 - 11:02

Never was up there until I got an iPhone and started syncing w/ iTunes, don't use mobileme and couldn't figure out how to get rid of it.

Nobody (not verified)

Wed, 05/19/2010 - 09:46

Good hint for other same kind of ops

Nobody (not verified)

Fri, 06/11/2010 - 09:44

I had the same issue, thanks for the tip.

Nobody (not verified)

Thu, 06/24/2010 - 02:21

Thank you very much for the tip.

Nobody (not verified)

Thu, 07/22/2010 - 04:35

always mixed up the mobile me and time-machine icons.
why is apple forcing stuff like this on us.

Nobody (not verified)

Wed, 09/01/2010 - 18:57

Thank you. I don't use it too and it is an nuisance.
Didn't expect it to be so easy.

Nobody (not verified)

Sat, 10/16/2010 - 16:04

I had the same problem and I'm glad, I found this tip so easy. You save my life. Thanks again. :-)

Nobody (not verified)

Sat, 04/16/2011 - 12:14

Thank you! This tip worked great.

Nobody (not verified)

Fri, 09/30/2011 - 15:28

I never even registered for it and now I cannot delete it at all. Mobile me shows in my system preferences/internet & wireless but I cannot drag it in any way an if I click on it it asks me to register. also on my preferences panes folder there is nothing.

HELP!!! how do I delete this damned thing?
thanks

BeatnikDude

Sat, 10/01/2011 - 14:45

Use the "Command" key while clicking and dragging the Mobile Me icon from the toolbar.

The above directions continue to work on osX 10.7.x (Lion).

Pro Backup - on... (not verified)

Thu, 10/13/2011 - 12:48

Having the new iCloud preference pane (which crashes upon opening) it was time to remove MobileMe.

In our 10.7.2 Mac OS X the terminal command had to be adapted slightly:
$ sudo rm -r /System/Library/PreferencePanes/Mac.prefPane /System/Library/PreferencePanes/MobileMe.prefPane

And with this, also Xsan was removed:
$ sudo rm -r /System/Library/PreferencePanes/Mac.prefPane /System/Library/PreferencePanes/MobileMe.prefPane /System/Library/PreferencePanes/Xsan.prefPane /System/Library/PreferencePanes/FibreChannel.prefPane

Nobody (not verified)

Mon, 11/26/2012 - 16:21

Thank you!

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