Aren't Safari bookmarks supposed to sync between computers?

I think that Safari bookmarks are suppose to be the same across all of one's computers running the same OS. But that is not the case between my iMac running OS X Mountain Lion and my MacBook Pro running OS X Mountain Lion. Any help?

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Safari bookmarks & history not syncing with iPhone

All of my history, readling list and bookmarks on Safari on my Macbook are no longer syncing with my iPhone. initially, my Safari on my macbook pro was syncing perfectly through sept. 2013. ever since then, nothing, including my history and bookmarks, from safari on my mac will sync anymore with the safari first on my iphone 4s and now my iphons 5s. i've already turned off the syncing options on both devices, turned them back on and restarted both devices, as per the suggestions from another post. STILL NOTHING. And with the update to the iOS on iphone as a few months ago, there is no longer the option to turn on and off the safari book sync options under settings on the iPhone or on iTunes. Help please!

Sorry I have a problem with my devices and thought that you could help me , you are saying that safari history used to sync between all your devices , I was told that the history can't be synced and that only iCloud tabs sync , so plz plz reply to me cause I have a major problem , does safari history ( which is in the bookmark not the iCloud tabs ) does it sync between devices and you can see a history of one device on your other device
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Any way to sync between computers?

I can't sync my Tungsten E2 to my Vista 64 computer. But I can sync to my XP Pro computer (32). Is there a way to sync between the computers? Or to use the files on the XP on the Vista 64?
Thanks,
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You cannot sync between computers, What can be done though, to get the data from your E2 to the Vista 64 bit PC is to sync by bluetooth. You can check in your device manager to see if the PC already has bluetooth installed. If it does just find the bluetooth port on your PC, put the E2 a couple of inches away from the PC and in hotsync manager choose to hot sync by bluetooth. If you don't have bluetooth already installed on your PC you will need to purchase a USB bluetooth dongle, install the drivers that come with it and then sync. The first time you sync it could take a little while depending on how much data you have on the device. Hope this helps.....
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ITunes won't sync between computers!

I have two macs, one a late 2010 Macbook Pro that I use for University, and a Mac Mini Late 2012 that I use whilst at home.
I buy most of my music from the Mac Mini, but when I come to listen to it on my MBP, it won't sync! It doesn't happen the other way around because today I purchased something on my MBP and it synced fine to the MM.
I've tried all the normal proedures; turning everything on and off again, going to Store > Check for Available Downloads but still nothing! It says everything is synced up nad its not! Very annoying!
I look forward to anyones earliest reply,
Ash

fawkea wrote:
I buy most of my music from the Mac Mini, but when I come to listen to it on my MBP, it won't sync!
Correct. iTunes does not sync between computers.
It doesn't happen the other way around because today I purchased something on my MBP and it synced fine to the MM.
You mean it automatically downloaded.
going to Store > Check for Available Downloads but still nothing!
Because it has already been downlaoded.
It says everything is synced up nad its not!
You mean it says everything has already been downloaded (not synced).
On both computers...
iTunes prefs > Store.
Tick Music under Automatic downloads.
Now when you purchase on one, the other will automatically download (not sync) new purchases.

Aren't iBooks supposed to sync between devices?

I have iOS5 on both my iPad 2 and my iPhone 4S. I'm reading a book from iBooks on my phone and when I get home I'm thinking it's supposed to open on my iPad where I left off.....right? Is that how it's supposed to work? I know bookmark will sync, but isn't all supposed to sync? Both devices are in WiFi. I left off on page 32 in my car. Later in my Ouse my iPad had it on the page prior to when I left my house. I closed them both, reopened them and still nothing.
Currently my other stuff all syncs fine...calendar, contacts, etc. can anyone help with this?
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When you take notes, highlight passages, or create bookmarks, iCloud pushes them to all your devices automatically. And it remembers which page you’re on, so you can pick up right where you left off.2
http://www.apple.com/ibooks/
Correct me if I'm wrong but this functionality worked flawlessly on the original iPad with iBooks. Apple still advertises the "last page read" feature (above), too.
Bookmarks sync for me but last page read does not, and often times resets the last page read to that on another device.

TS4001 safari bookmarks won't sync (iphone-macbook-icloud)

Have tried everything - restarting, resetting, and couple of other forum tricks..
For instance, on my macbookpro there's no file called com.apple.safari.plist (see other discussion)
Please help.

The file is there, but is in your user Library, hidden by default in Lion (hold the option key while clicking on the Finder's 'Go' menu to see it). However the relevant file is actually (user)/Library/Safari/Bookmarks.plist, and in any case you shouldn't tamper with it.
Please see this page for help with difficulties syncing Bookmarks:
iCloud: Troubleshooting iCloud Bookmarks
and I don't know whether you were expecting to see the Bookmarks at icloud.com but they do not appear there.

Stored passwords not syncing between computers.

I'm trying to use Firefox to Syncronize data between computers. It was working, but somewhere along the way it has stopped. I now have three computers, of which I'm trying to have two of them synced together. I thought that the issue was account related, so I deleted my original account & had to create a new one (with a different e-mail address - I'd like to change that back if possible). Anyhow, now it seems as if bookmarks are synced OK, but my saved passwords are not. Given that I can't tell what the status is of a sync, it is hard for me to tell where the process is.
So, I have one computer (a Macbook) with passwords on it that I am syncing and I have another (a new Dell Laptop), that I would like to have updated.
What do I need to do to get my passwords synchronized?
Thank you,
Paul

Make sure that you are forcing syncing by pressing Sync Now in your computers and allow some time (several minutes) to have all the information sent to the server and down from the server. If this still doesn't work, follow the steps in this blogpost to create a bug:
https://philikon.wordpress.com/2011/06/13/how-to-file-a-good-sync-bug/
This would be really helpful. I've seen other people having issues with passwords but I'm unable to replicate it.

Pages won't sync between computers in iCloud drive

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Before I upgraded, I could write on the laptop and it would sync with the desktop and vid-versa.
I upgraded to Yosemite thinking this would solve the problem. it did not. I upgraded to pages 5.5 on both. Still no success. Any ideas, or is this something you can't do on Drive. And if you can't, is there a way to go back to the old Cloud? I hate moving files manually -- always afraid I'm writing over the wrong thing.
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Hi matthewfromconifer;
The following would be helpful, I suppose:
1- Make a backup of iCloud Drive docs (for precaution) .
2- Go to System Preferences > iCloud
3- iCloud Drive > Options. Uncheck all the applications listed.
4- Turn off iCloud Drive.
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ICal won't sync between computers / iphones

Since I started my free trial with mobileme, I have been trying to synch calendars between two desktop computers and two iPhones. No luck.
I have established a number of calendars on my me.com account, using my iMac. I also share these calendars with only those people I invite. I can see these calendars on the iCal on my iMac, but I cannot see these calendars on my MacBook Pro iCal. When I open an email on my MacBook Pro, alerting me to the Mobile Me calendar, I cannot join that calendar: "You can't join calendars you're sharing."
So how can I get all of the calendars to sync between both computers? If I resolve that problem, maybe the iPhone sync will resolve itself.

I got some help from MobileMe Support. Here's how they solved the problem.
On the laptop, open iCal and click the word iCal at top of the screen. Choose Preferences. 2. Click Accounts. 3. Click the plus button at the bottom of the page. 4. From the "Account Type," please choose "CalDAV." Enter your full MobileMe email address, including the @me.com suffix. If you don't include @me.com, the setup will not be successful. 5. Enter your MobileMe password. 6. For the Server address, please enter: cal.me.com 6. Click the Create button.
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Safari-Bookmarks won't sync with iCloud and other devices, MobileMe still "active"?

Hello, I've got a problem with my iMac runnning 10.7.5
"He" does not want to sync bookmarks (safari) from the local iMac to anywhere else.
(I also use a Macbook white, iPad 1 and iPhone 4).
Not to other devices, not to iCloud.
I can switch off and on the "sync bookmarks"-checkbox as often as i want - nothing happens after "merge".
One ore maybe interesting Information:
In my system-Settings i can still click on "MobileMe" and the button "move to iCloud" ist still shown.
If I press the button, I see the Erorr-message "mobileme has ended" or something linke this.
If I start the MobileMe-"Application", I get an error after some seconds "service not available".
Some months ago i changed from a older iMac to the newer one (using TimeMachine-Restore).
I can not remember if the problem came with this switch or not.
Any hints?
Thanks!
Greetings from the cold Germany.

Yes, I could disconnect from Mobileme but this does not change anything regarding the problem.
bookmarks are still not transfered to other devices.
In the system-Settings, the mobileMe-Entry is still available and I coud try to "sign on to mobileme"
Disable and enable bookmark-sync after disconnecting from mobileme does not change anything.
The Merge of the Bookmars (question comes after disable and enable again) takes ohly 0,0005 seconds to merge. Very fast.
One more thing: if I log on to iCloud, I can nowhere find anything regarding bookmarks.
Where to find the bookmarks online normally??? I remember some years ago, using the running mobileme-service, i could access my bookmarks from any pc all around the world...
Any further hints?

Copied Safari bookmarks.plist but sync to device not taking place

I manually deleted bookmarks from iPhone and iPad.
Then deleted all bookmarks from mac.
Then I added just one bookmark on the mac, and it synced as expected to the iPhone and iPad.
I then copied my original bookmark.plist over to the Safari directory.
This copied and all the bookmarks appear as expected on the Mac.
Then I went to the iPhone and iPad and the bookmarks havent synced across.... do you know why?
I've tried turning OFF Safari and selecting delete from iPhone/iPad, then restart the devices but still the bookmarks dont sync over. Any ideas why, what have I have wrong?

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Hi Midlake
You may have already resolved this? but I just realised you may have had the same problem as myself.
1. Connect your iPhone
2. Go to iTunes and click on your iPhone icon in the left hand panel
3. Click Sync tab (you will see sync contacts, mail accounts etc.)
4. IMPORTANT scroll down the page as the sync bookmarks is hidden!
Hope this works

New Sync between computers using iPod

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Only partly sync between computers

I am interested in syncing my history to two other computers, and in the future I wish all the computers to be in sync with history. But when I use Firefox Sync, only some of my visited homepages are synced to the other computers.
For example, yesterday I search on google for “backup safari history” and this is not in sync. But few minutes later I search for “firefox sync only sync some”, and for some reason this is in sync!? I think it is not a time problem, because I let it sync for a couple of hours.
I have tried different solutions. I have tried to make a new Sync account, and it didn’t make a difference. I have tried to use Xmarks without luck. Lastly, I have tried to export the history to another browser, so I could use a Sync option from another browser, but it is only possible to export bookmarks and not history.
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History of sites visited in the last 60 days
You could try increasing your Sync Quota and see if you get more of your history to Sync, but that 6o days max might be coded in and affected by the Quota setting.
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/how-do-i-manage-my-firefox-sync-account#w_how-do-i-request-a-quota-increase

Turn off Syncing between computers?

Hi,
I recently set up a new iMac for an elderly family member and used my Apple ID. My bookmarks appeared on her screen, so I deleted all of them. This morning, when I brought up Safari on my laptop, all of my bookmarks were gone. It appears that the two computers are syncing data which I do not want. How do I separate the two at this point? Is this an iCloud situation?

You should not have used your Apple ID, now her Mac and your Mac are connected via iCloud. Go back to the other machine and take your account off of it. Backup your machine before you do anything.

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