How to Clean .Mac’s House

As pimped on 43 Folders, the Ars Technica guide to nuking your .Mac syncs and starting over. I so, so, so need to do this right now. Every hour for the past day I’ve been getting a message on my laptop asking me if I want to add 185 Safari bookmarks. No, I don’t. Please deal with it and fix yourself.

My experience with .Mac has been largely positive, especially since they upped the basic package to 10gb of storage. But I have never been able to get certain syncing protocols to work — bookmarks usually work, despite my current predicament. The two that come to mind are Keychains and Mail Rules. These have caused massive confusion on my Macs in the past. I really wish they would get this stuff worked out because .Mac could be so much more than it already is.