Complaint: cannot sync calendars or contacts without icloud

I have an iphone 5s, and on the phone and laptop [macbook pro early 2011] fully update OSs, 10.9 maverix and iOS 7.0.3.
I cannot sync my calendars and contacts anymore from the phone to computer, with icloud, it seems. i am still searching for a solution to this obvious problem/bug.
If this is Apple's intention then i register my complaint. Removing this choice from your loyal customers is simply a bad decision. I do not ever want to use icloud, do not need or want it. Also that this non-icloud sync ability was removed, without a word anywhere that i can see, this dismays me and makes me wish i had checked out alternative phones/OSs. --I am not hopeful that android would be any better. Just wish i had learned before buying two days ago the 5s.
I hope that a future update will bring this ability back.

Don't know how you are able to continue receiving email with the account, but this will end soon.
If you are accessing the account with the Mail.app on your Mac, you should transfer all server stored messages to a user created "On My Mac" location mailbox ASAP. When account access is stopped which will happen soon, all messages that remain on the server will be lost.
If you don't intend to purchase a MM account, best to stop using it now since anyone that sends you email will no longer be able to do so once access to the account has stopped, which will happen soon.
Turning off over the air syncing for contact info and calendar events should allow for this and the same for when deleting the account on your iPhone. I read a post recently by someone with the same problem. They were told to delete and recreate the account on the iPhone but don't enable over the air syncing for contact info and calendar events after doing so.

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Correct. When you update via iTunes all synced media that is not in your iTunes library will be lost.
As IO said before:
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Downloading past purchases from the App Store, iBookstore, and iTunes Store
I do not think it included audio books.

Why can I no longer sync iCal and contacts without iCloud?

I dont use iCloud basically because by doing so all your data - specifically your contacts and calendar - gets uploaded to an Apple server where it sits for ever. If you decide you want to stop using iCloud (like you decide for some weird reason to use windows instead...or you move somewhere where there's no internet - its possible) it deletes your data from the device you have unsubscribed from. This basically means once you are on iCloud there is no going back. Apple basically acts as if it owns you and your data and inorder to access it (excude me but my calender and contacts list belongs to me) its obligitory to use Apple and iCloud...if you dont it gets deleted and is gone for ever.
So I sync via USB/WiFi...but now after 'upgrading' to Mavericks this option is no longer permitted? You MUST use iCloud.....WHY?? - I dont want to!
I run a business and use iCal to make all my business bookings - these used to sync easily between my iPad and my iMac. Now it doesnt unless I hand over the rights to all my data for all enternity to Apple inc.
This is my stuff and it doesnt belong to Apple - I want to keep it that way
How can I sync iCal and Contacts without signing away ownership of my diary and contacts to Apple?
Am I going to have to ditch my Mac?? Why wasnt this more widely publicized??
Anyone have any suggestions?
Thanks

frederick261 wrote:
Thanks for the reply Arthur. Actually, I just got off the phone with an apple rep telling me you can't downgrade, and that yes, apple actually IS forcing you to use iCloud - if, that is, you actually want to be able to sync your contacts or calendar. Apparently you are special and know something different, so please enlighten the rest of us.
Here is one way
https://discussions.apple.com/docs/DOC-6311
Here is another
http://www.apple.com/au/osx/server/
Here is yet another
If your Mavericks came with anything other than Mavericks pre-installed
OS X Mavericks: Revert to a previous OS X version
Also there are a host of other Cloud services you can use. You do not have to use iCloud at all. Although there ARE over 320+ million iCloud presently active, so it is extremely popular with users.
Pete

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I upgraded to Windows 7 but am still using Outlook 2003 as it is compatible with my office server for data storage. I am not sure when exactly but when I upgraded iPhone software to 4.3.2, I find that since Windows 7/Software 4.3.2, I cannot sync my calendar and contacts in Outlook 2003 with my iPhone. Old entries in my calendar are still there but the new entries do not show. I have even reduced my calendars to one single calendar. Worse, sometimes when I try to sync, it causes Outlook 2003 to hang and close. Can anyone help me? Thank you.

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Thanks for the answer Simon. That seems simple enough but there are some things which aren't clear.
If I create accounts on the server for the users independently (ie not ownership of the home folder) they're going to have different UID's. Surely this means that even with the same account name and password, they're going to be treated as unique users. Does that not affect who has write access? I don't know how the Calendar and Contact servers work so this may be irrelevant.
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I have read that using the Calendar and Contact components of Server.app is not a supported way of syncing across machines and that they're intended to be used for shared information rather than syncing. But maybe there is no way to avoid an "unsupported method" without moving the home folder. Is this a method you're using?
I'll do a bit of testing with this but would also be grateful for any additional hints.

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Complaint: cannot sync calendars or contacts without icloud

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