IPhone no longer syncing with iCal since purchasing new Macbook Pro
I've searched other posts and some were exhaustively long complaints about iCloud and I really don't want to read through 600 posts to get to what should be a simple answer to a really obnoxious problem that never used to be a problem before Maverick.
My calendars are not syncing. I've gathered from 1 other post to make sure that I have iCloud turn on for iCal on my Macbook and on my iPhone. Done. But still nothing is syncing. When I sync on iTunes, no calendar syncing happens. How else am I supposed to sync my calendars? Please help!
You can no longer sync via iTunes. That method of sync was removed (and the 1000+ post thread is arguments over things tangientally related to that).
You need to sync via other means than iTunes, then.
One option is to use iCloud. If you sign into iCloud on all your devices, and then make sure your calendars are in the "iCloud" section on your devices, they should sync.
If you don't want to use iCloud, you could use Google calendars, they operate much the same way (but may be less reliable).
Or if you use Exchange for work, you could sync that way.
Or if none of those are acceptable, you could install OS X Server and set up the calendar server on your local network and use it to sync. This is fairly straightforward "for setting up a UNIX calendar server" but it's not trivial and beyond the scope of a forum post to explain it all
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