{"id":5792,"date":"2011-11-03T09:13:40","date_gmt":"2011-11-03T07:13:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/?p=5792"},"modified":"2011-11-21T16:49:48","modified_gmt":"2011-11-21T14:49:48","slug":"sync-macs-over-icloud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/sciencesurf\/2011\/11\/sync-macs-over-icloud\/","title":{"rendered":"Sync macs over iCloud"},"content":{"rendered":"

I have tried out the new sync function on my mac books and it works (nearly) perfect. There is not so much information out there, how this is working, that’s why I am describing here briefly my strategy.<\/p>\n

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The master machine is sync’ed first creating a basic layer of data. All further machines then add their data to that pool.<\/p>\n

Address book<\/em> entries are being merged, no problem at all (except that iSync silently vanished in Lion).<\/p>\n

Mail<\/em> refers to a (new) me.com account, sync does not affect your existing imap\/pop accounts although you may later want to redirect all to that me.com account as only these mails are pushed to mobile devices.<\/p>\n

Ical<\/em> adds further calendar subscriptions but doesn’t change existing calendars. Nice. Same with todos<\/em>. I removed, however, some private calendars:-Export on disk, delete in cal, import as local calendar.<\/p>\n

Files<\/em> refers only to pages\/keynotes\/numbers files – forget about that and stick with dropbox or Amazon S3 as I do. The idea of the Apple folks is certain good doing only sequential updates with specific programs but doesn’t work at the moment.<\/p>\n

Bookmarks<\/em> are now merged over iCloud which is again a great progress.<\/p>\n

As the RSS feeds<\/em> do not sync over iCloud, I am relying here on Google+ for storage\/update and Gruml as a reader.<\/p>\n

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The downsize of all that nice features? A lot of my private data is just secured by a single password from the rest of the world – but maybe by different companies and in different countries, yea, yea.<\/p>\n\n

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\n CC-BY-NC Science Surf , accessed 09.05.2026<\/span>\n <\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I have tried out the new sync function on my mac books and it works (nearly) perfect. There is not so much information out there, how this is working, that’s why I am describing here briefly my strategy. The master machine is sync’ed first   CC-BY-NC Science Surf , accessed 09.05.2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[2734,2733,2735],"class_list":["post-5792","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer-software","tag-icloud","tag-macbook","tag-sync"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5792","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5792"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5792\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5836,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5792\/revisions\/5836"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}