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From: Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Re: Why are WiFi SSID's my iMac has never been near in my WiFi list?
Date: 5 Feb 2015 23:44:07 GMT
Organization: People for the Ethical Treatment of Pirates
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On 2015-02-05, Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> wrote:
> Okay, so one time? In band camp? Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> was all, like:
>>> Does the cockamamie iCloud copy SSID's amongst devices in an account? 
>>> That would (possibly) make sense for mobile devices, but certainly not 
>>> for a 27" iMac.
>
>> Makes sense for laptops, though. And I'm sure someone on planet Earth
>> has moved a desktop computer around expecting them to be there. For the
>> rest of us, the delete key works fine.
>
> That's probably not a good idea. If you delete them, they will be
> deleted off the other devices.

That depends on which access points you've collected. Most of mine are
collected from trips I take while on vacation, and there's absolutely no
need to hang onto those.

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