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<blockquote data-quote="MacInWin" data-source="post: 1950488" data-attributes="member: 396914">No. Apple doesn't guess at relationships. All it would take is for ONE accidental disclosure of a person's data and Apple would end up sued for way too much money to risk guessing.I don't know what that means. By &quot;name&quot; is that the login account name? I though AppleID required an email as the login name. And again, no guessing.Some device with your information on it is sharing the data with the new Mac. Or that data got restored when you initialized the new machine using some sort of Migration assistance. Can we, here, guess what that sharing device is? Probably not unless you want to tell us every device you and everybody in your immediate network has, how they are configured, backed up, connected, etc., and even then it's still unlikely we can sort it out. You can, however, maybe get a hint by adding a bogus name to each device, with a different bogus name for each device and then see which bogus name appears on the new Mac. PITA, but if the sync is still in place, that will expose it. And if there is NO sync and none of the bogus items appear, then you will know that it came from your original setup steps.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="MacInWin, post: 1950488, member: 396914"] No. Apple doesn't guess at relationships. All it would take is for ONE accidental disclosure of a person's data and Apple would end up sued for way too much money to risk guessing. I don't know what that means. By "name" is that the login account name? I though AppleID required an email as the login name. And again, no guessing. Some device with your information on it is sharing the data with the new Mac. Or that data got restored when you initialized the new machine using some sort of Migration assistance. Can we, here, guess what that sharing device is? Probably not unless you want to tell us every device you and everybody in your immediate network has, how they are configured, backed up, connected, etc., and even then it's still unlikely we can sort it out. You can, however, maybe get a hint by adding a bogus name to each device, with a different bogus name for each device and then see which bogus name appears on the new Mac. PITA, but if the sync is still in place, that will expose it. And if there is NO sync and none of the bogus items appear, then you will know that it came from your original setup steps. [/QUOTE]

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