Hi Ronni, I couldn't work out what the warning from Apple meant - the one that says all will be lost and I'll be doomed if in the future I stop using iCloud. I'm very, very reluctant to become a hostage to any service provider or storage host, and I'm even more reluctant to store client information on a "cloud". For all I know the server (cloud) could be hosted by Colonel Gaddafi!
And so I was conservative and only attempted to sync Contacts, Calendars and Reminders and took care to stay away from Documents & Data: there was no way I was going lo have them removed from my computer and become inaccessible if I stopped using iCloud. It also seemed to me that Apple set things up so that the device with the most recent information upon it over-rode the device with older information on it. Some of my data goes back to the mid-nineties, especially email addresses. I don't want to risk losing those. Regards, A happy but relieved All Black supporter but didn't the French play well, Michael. On 23/10/2011, at 2:25 PM, Ronda Brown wrote: > Hi Michael, > > How have you setup syncing? > > Have you setup iCloud on your Mac to Sync Mail, Contacts, Calendars, > Reminders, Bookmarks, Notes (Photo Stream if you want it), Documents & Data, > Back to My Mac & Find my Mac in System Preferences ,and then after you > received the message “Now setup your Devices” (or similar) iCloud on your > iPhone 4S to sync the same? > > If you are syncing using iCloud, DON’T have syncing of these items in iTunes > (Turn them OFF in iTunes) otherwise you will end up with duplicates. > You sync from the Cloud … “iCloud”! > > In iTunes you only sync what iCloud doesn’t … example: Music, Movies, TV > Shows, etc > > Cheers, > Ronni > > 17" MacBook Pro 2.3GHz Quad-Core i7 “Thunderbolt" > 2.3GHz / 8GB / 750GB @ 7200rpm HD > > OS X 10.7.2 Lion > Windows 7 Ultimate (under sufferance) > On 23/10/2011, at 1:44 PM, Michael Hawkins wrote: > >> I want to merge the information I have on my iPhone 4S with the information >> on my MacBook Pro. How can I set things up so that that happens, rather than >> having one device overriding the other and deleting whatever is different in >> the process? >> >> MacBook Pro >> 2.4 Ghz Intel Core 2 Duo >> 6 GB 667 Mhz DDR2 SDRAM >> OS 10.7.2 >> >> iPhone 4S >> iOS 5.0 (9A334) >> Modern Firmware 1.0.11 >> >> iCloud has left me in a fog. >> >> Regards and thanks in advance, >> >> Michael Hawkins. >> Go the Mighty AB's! >> > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- > Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> > Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> > Settings & Unsubscribe - > <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug> -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> Settings & Unsubscribe - <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug>
