I have to congratulate the Apple Support team for taking ownership and chasing engineering for a fix. Have been examining preferences between the two otherwise identical machines to see if I can clone some plist files across to fix this. New users may not see these problems because iCloud authentication is handled quite differently on later OS versions. If you need to know the build number as well, click the version number to see it. You should see the macOS name, such as macOS Monterey or macOS Big Sur, followed by its version number. Very likely affects other OS variants too. From the Apple menu in the corner of your screen, choose About This Mac. Health warning to all 10.8.5 users then is to not sign out of iCloud because you won't be able to sign back in until they fix this. 10.8.5 on another machine is happily communicating with iCloud and syncing just fine. Cannot understand why a vital server was taken down. Managed to get iCloud mail working by setting up a manually configured IMAP account but cannot so far get CalDAV and CardDAV working although some of the advice from MobileMe configs back in 2012 got me partway there. But I signed out and tried to sign back in a few days ago after setting the invitation preference on the web interface to defat the Calendar spams. My Mac Mini also boots from this Windows 10 Pro DVD I created from the Media Creation Tool after my Upgrade. Come to find out that Windows EFI overwrites the Macintosh Recovery Partition and changes it to EFI. Using Boot Camp, I installed my copy of Windows 10 Pro from DVD. The server that it hits (according to Little Snitch) is not online and therefore cannot vend the configuration back to me. Performed a Full Erase and Yosemite 10.10.5 upgrade 'clean install'. Still no joy with authenticating my iCloud sign on from OS 10.8.5.
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