IT Match on mac, now about my iOS devices....

I signed up for iTunes Match on my mac. I went through the matching process, then, I followed an article in MacWorld about getting all 128 bitrate or protected tracks in a smart album, deleting them, then downloading the 268 bitrate, unprotected versions. That process has been going on all night. Currently it's at the end of step two, with 3359 of 3362 Songs Checked (taking forever, but the spinning wheel next to iTunes Match in left panel is still spinning, so I'll let it continue).
My question is about the iOS side of things. Once my mac iTunes gets updated with good tracks (a good 2/3 of my tracks will be "updated", can I connect my devices (one at a time) to iTunes, turn off music syncing, thus remove all my music on the device, then turn iTunes syncing on to get the complete, good version of songs to the device. I figure this must be faster than upgrading via wifi and iT Match. Later, I plan to turn on iT Match on the devices. I read that turning on Match will not delete existing tracks on the device and start a re-sync from Match.
Is this plan good?

I figured it out, I turned off Document syncing on all devices, then deleted the ~Library/Mobile Documents/com~apple~TextInput folder instead of the subfolders that I deleted the first time, Then I turned document syncing back on (warning , all text shortcuts are gone! ) on my Mac, and then on my iOS devices.
It took a few minutes for my devices to catchup, but they all went to zero text shortcuts, and I was able to create a new text shortcut on each device and have it replicate to the other devices.
While this fixed my problem, it's a good idea to back up your text shortcuts to another program( evernote? ) in case you need to do what I just did to fix a syncing issue.

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Is it possible to control a Mac directly from an iOS device without being connected to a WiFi network, i.e. an airport or similar.

I would like to control my MacMini (Late 2012) 2.3GHz Intel Quad Core i7 processor directly from my iOS device, either my iPhone 6 or my iPad G3. By directly I mean without having a wireless or wired network in place.
I know there are a number of iOS apps that utilize VNC technology but I believe they all require the Mac to be connected via WiFi to an Airport or similar wireless networking device. I would like to control my MacMini remotely without having it already connected to a WiFi network and wondered is it possible? The iOS device and Mac would be in close proximity to one another.
Has anyone had any experience with this? Thanks.

Guys, thanks but I did not mean to control it by infrared. I know only too well that iOS devices do not have that capability. However they and the Mac both can send and receive WiFi signals so is there any reason they can't talk to each other directly.
When I am in my home I have an airport but I would like to take the Mac Mini out on music gigs with my Apollo interface which serves as my mic preamp and mixer as it does in my studio but the Apollo needs to be connected to the mac via thunderbolt to download the plugin software that provides reverb and eq, etc. I would like to do this without the need of a monitor and keyboard, hence my dilemma. The only thing I basically need to do is start the mini and the rest happens automatically but I need to also shut down (which I know can be accomplished a couple of ways) but with out having a visual interface you can't make any changes or verify what setting are being used.

HT204022 How do I delete photos from my mac, without affecting other iOS devices (iphone)?

Hi there, I only have a MBA with small storage. I wish to delete the sync'ed photo from my MBC (currently 5+GB), as I use an external HD to back up my photos anyways. But I do not want to affect the same photos stored on my iPhone.
when I delete photos in iPhoto will it delete the same ones on my iPhone via iCloud or the next time I plug in my phone?
THANKS!

when I delete photos in iPhoto will it delete the same ones on my iPhone via iCloud or the next time I plug in my phone?
If you send the photos to your phone using iTunes Photo Sync (iOS: Syncing with iTunes), yes then the albums and photos that are no longer available on your mac, will be remove from your synced IOS device. To keep them permanently on your phone, save them to the Camera Roll.
Regards
Léonie

Text Shortcuts on Mac not syncing with iOS Devices

It appears that my iOS devices are syncing text shortcuts, because when I add/remove one from one device, it's replicated on the other devices.
However, text shortcut changes made on my Mac ( Macbook Air, latest Mavericks version ) are not replicated to the iOS devices, and vice-versa. It's like my iPad and iPhone have decided to share with each other , and ignore my Mac.
I tried deleting the com~apple~Textinput folder, but that did not have any effect. I also tried turning iCloud off and on on my Mac, and that did not help, either.
Ideas on how to fix this?

I figured it out, I turned off Document syncing on all devices, then deleted the ~Library/Mobile Documents/com~apple~TextInput folder instead of the subfolders that I deleted the first time, Then I turned document syncing back on (warning , all text shortcuts are gone! ) on my Mac, and then on my iOS devices.
It took a few minutes for my devices to catchup, but they all went to zero text shortcuts, and I was able to create a new text shortcut on each device and have it replicate to the other devices.
While this fixed my problem, it's a good idea to back up your text shortcuts to another program( evernote? ) in case you need to do what I just did to fix a syncing issue.

Some matched music is not showing on iOS devices!

I subscribed to and set up iTunes match this morning on my iMac. All seems to have gone well, everything matched and the upload of about 300 songs is about halfway through. But, on my iPhone and iPad, some music isn't appearing, despite it showing as matched on iTunes! The strange thing is, one or two songs from an album are showing up, but the rest aren't. They definitely display 'matched' on my mac. Any ideas guys??

That is odd.
Here's my suggestion:
1. Turn off iTunes Match on your iDevices. Restart them for good measure.
2. Turn off iTunes Match in iTunes.
3. Quit iTunes; restart your computer for good measure.
4. Launch iTunes and re-enable iTunes Match. Let it finish what it's going to do.
5. Re-enable iTM on your iDevices one at a time. Launching the Music app and let each one sync up with the server.
Let us know how that works.

How to share mac wifi network to iOS devices

I have a network connection on my Macbook Pro via wifi only. Is there any possibility to share wifi network from Macbook to iPhone or iPad using Airport/USB?

this should help
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I used the iTunes match workaround and now want to start over, but I am being told I have exceeded the limit even though I completely cleared the match cloud, mindful of the 1000-delete-at-a-time limit....what should I do?

I have over 25k songs in iTunes. I originally tried the "create a second library" solution. I reduced to less than 25k songs and successfully ran iTunes match. Then I discovered the limitations of the second library solution regarding adding more music, managing playlists, and turning back on my main library and being greeted with all sorts of problems.
So, I created a blank library, ran iTunes match, and its showed me all of my files in the cloud that had been matched or uploaded. I deleted all of the files, mindful of the 1000 file limit per delete. I have confirmed I have now deleted them all. An iTunes match update says I have no files in the cloud. Perfect.
I reduced my library again, this time using the superior method of just changing the files I do not want to match to voice memos. That is done. I have less than 25 k songs.
I waited 2 days and ran match again. Yikes. It did not let me match or upload anything, and every music files's cloud status just says "exceeded limit," despite the fact that my cloud is devoid of music and I have no access to any music via match.
I am in a limbo where I have nothing in the cloud from match, but I can't add anything because match says I exceeded my limit.
I emailed customer support, and got back a useless email linking me to a very general article about iTunes match. I called customer service and they said this was something the iTunes store people would need to address, and they can only be contacted by email. Sigh . . . .
Any thoughts?
Thanks

Have you confirmed that you successfull purged iTunes Match by also looking on an iOS device? If so, keep in mind that Apple's servers may be experiencing a heavy load right now. They just added about 19 countries to the service and I've read a few accounts this morning that suggests all's not running perfectly right now.

Help with Spry, acting weird in Mac Os 10.5 10.6, 10.7 and Ios Devices

I use Dreamweaver CS4 for designing our school website. The url is http://www.stpiusxschool.org
The menu bar on the left is built with a Spry Asset, it is to expand to different choices on some of the lines. The issue started about a month ago, if I click on the first item that should expand out (Parent Resources) it will not expand out, then I choose the second one (Student Resources) it expands out, I go back to Parent Resources and it will expand....this happen on Mac 10.5 and Ios Devices (Ipad, and Iphone)
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I have built a second spry on a test page within the site, and tried it out, it doesn't seem to work correct either. It can be accessed off the main page mentioned above, scroll to the bottom and click on test, that is just what it is a test page.
School is starting soon and this site is used a lot for resources during the day.
I have called Adobe and got no where with them but that even took hours.
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Thanks

You have got two problems
The menu is acting weird in Mac as well as on PC
The menu does not behave in IOS devices
The solutions
Add the DOCTYPE Declaration to your document(s)
Replace the current SpryMenuBar for an IOS friendly MenuBar
1. You can add the HTML5 document type as follows, making sure that there are no blank lines before <!DOCTYPE HTML>
<!DOCTYPE HTML>
<html>
<head>
<meta charset="utf-8">
<title>St Pius X School des moines iowa</title>
The title already existsin your document. I put it there so that it is easier to see where the rest goes.
2. There is a Spry Menu Bar 2.0 available here http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/exchange/index.cfm?event=extensionDetail&extid=2141544
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IOS devices not loading shared media library to the end

I am having this problem for some time by now - but it did not appear shortly after any iOS update! Now what is the trouble?
I am using my iPad 3 and my iPhone 5 (newest iOS on both) alongside an Apple TV 3, a Mac mini Server and a MacBook Pro (newest OS X). The Server hosts my media library, private sharing activated by using my Apple ID. Sometimes (not always) I am sharing my library with the same Apple ID on My MacBook Pro to my home network, too. Both Macs can see and use the other Mac's shared library without any troubles - so this works. The Apple TV 3 also can connect to both libraries (though I am using the Server's much more often than the MacBook Pro's).
Neither on my iPad nor on my iPhone I can get the home shared media library loaded in complete by using the apps
"Music" and "Video".
The small loading circle symbol just stops after about 50 % and then nothing happens furthermore no matter how long I am waiting:
The only thing I can do afterwards is to force quit "Music" and / or "Videos" app, restart those and trying again, still leaving me the already described 50 % and nothing else.
What is strange about that:
"Remote" app to Apple TV and my Macs and "AirPlay" to the Apple TV just work fine. "Remote" app connects to my Apple TV and my Macs without any troubles. But "Videos" and "Music" can not load the shared library to complete. It does not matter to which Mac I am connecting (to be more exact: to which shared library). All iOS devices "see" the shared libraries, seem to connect to them at the beginning but just to refuse to load more than 50 % - and doing anything else afterwards. To make it even more strange both iOS devices were able to load everything to the end some time ago. I am not sure if there was an iOS update available in between anymore, but there definetly was an iTunes update in between!
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Stopping and restarting home sharing on my Macs using the initial Apple ID account.
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Any help is highly appreciated!
J

Looks like I found a solution on my own...
After renaming my iTunes Mediatheque in the iTunes preferences window on my iTunes server hosted by a Mac mini all mi iOS devices were able to load my mediatheque in complete again. It took some time to get all the covers but no title is left over.
I found this solution by "accident" when I noticed too many devices used more or less the same name on my network.
Strange.

Selective use of iCloud with multiple laptops, multiple iPods and iOS devices?

I haven't brought my MBP13 to Lion yet. I do have an MBA that runs Lion.   I have hesitated to take the MBP to Lion and set up iCloud because I just don't understand what the options are for selective "sync" of various sorts of data among one or more Macs, their iPods and iOS devices.   The material I can find so far does not in any way make it clear to me in advance what sort of selectivity will be offered if I turn on iCloud.
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Beyond unwanted deletion?   Unwanted addition!   The last thing on earth I would ever want to do is set up iCloud and then find out that it wants to stash hundreds of GB of movies, hundreds of PDFs, thousands of music tracks, etc., on, say, my original iPhone that I still use as a WiFi device and occasionally add a few tracks of music to, or change up its playlists. Not to mention what would happen if it tried to stash all my stuff on some unsuspecting little iPod touch used just for audiobooks.
I am afraid that iCloud will work like the dread "transfer purchases" thing works now. The "transfer purchases" doesn't let me say WHAT purchases to transfer.   There's no way I want a movie I have managed to take from a secondary iTunes library onto an iPad transferred "back" to my iPhone or my MBA or to ANYTHING just because I turn some device I own in order to check the weather.   Maybe I never purchased that movie on the iPad. Just because it's not on the main library any more doesn't mean I want it to be there, either.
So how can find out ahead of time how iCloud is going to work for someone with lots of different types of data on several laptops where all the so-called "syncs" at present are as manual as I have been able to make them?
Or can someone just tell me hey you know what, iCloud is not designed for you, just don't go there.
Either way I'll be grateful for some help here. Sure I can clone my laptops and then back up all the iOS devices and copy those backups to externals, and then turn on iCloud and hammer on my stuff for two days to see what happens. But why should i do that if someone can say up front that iCloud is or is not set up for highly selective sync options?

iCloud does not sync movies or general files, so that problem doesn't arise.
iCloud will:
Sync Calendars
SyncSafari Bookmarks (though not display them on the iCloud website)
Sync Contacts
Sync photos added to or taken on one device onto other devices
Access @me.com email
Sync iWork documents only between your Mac and iOS5 devices - automatically from iOS devices by by dragging individual documents from a Mac to the iCloud website (and the cannot be re-downloaded until they have been edited on an iOS device)
Each of these can be turned on or off on each device; you cannot selectively sync within one data type - i.e. it's all or no Contacts, not a selection, and so on.

HT201104 viewing Pages docs offline on iOS device

I have Pages on my Mac and on my iOS devices but haven't used either very much. I'd like to start using both of them but I need more info than I can find in Apple Support:
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It appears that iCloud drive "connects" the two versions of Pages so Pages docs on my Mac will be available on my iOS devices. But can I view the documents on my devices when I don't have an internet connection?
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Sync problems between iOS devices and iMac desktop

Hi Folks,
I am having an odd prolem which has started to cause me some concerns with possible lost contacts. I have been adding contacts normally using my iPhone especially when out and about. Sometimes to make the typing a bit easier I have done it in a web browser into iCloud or on my desktop iMac. All sounds normal right ?
Having been searching for some contacts I have suddenly been unable to find them, weird - I am sure I put that guy in there a few days ago. Ok so look in the iPhone contacts and its there, look on the ipad and its there, but in the web access icould it not. Stuff entered on the iphone or ipad do sync to ech other, but apparently somehow bypassing the web accessed icloud.
Dig a bit deeper and find that about 300 out of 3500 contacts are not in all places.
Contacts added on the iphone are in the ipad and vice versa, but they arent on the icloud web or in the iMac on my desk.
Has anybody got any ideas whats going on here ? I do knwo that I often see at the foot of a contact in the iphone LINKED contacts that have all the same details.
Can somebody please xplain what all these different data sets are and how can I get them all merged into one set and have that data everywhere ??
Any advice much appreciated
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From the menu bar click iCal > Preferences then select the Accounts tab then the Account Information tab.
Select iCloud on the left under Accounts.
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I've got a Motorola modem/gateway - 3360 from WalMart. I have the AEBS working in bridge mode connecting my iMac & Printer fine, but my iOS devices won't connect.
While troubleshooting & trying all types of settings, I was able to get EITHER the iMac or the iOS devices connected to internet, but not both at same time.
Then I noticed I am getting "another device is using the same ip address.." message.
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BUT now, all my iOS devices dont connect to the internet regardless of the ip address of the AEBS.
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If you do go this route, I would like to make a suggestion for your consideration, and that is to assign static IP addresses to devices that are "permanent" on your network or ones you want to make sure can be reachable at all times. These (again) would be servers, routers, wireless access points, network printers/scanners, NAS devices, etc.
I would recommend the following IP addressing scheme as a baseline and you are certainly free to deviate in any way you see fit to meet your networking requirements:
Reduce the number of IP handed out by DHCP. By default, most routers will provide 100-200 private IP addresses within their DHCP leasing scope. The AirPort, by default, assigns 10.0.1.2 thru 10.0.1.200 via DHCP. Your Motorola may assign 192.168.0.2 thru 192.168.0.150. Either way, I would reduce this to no more than fifty (50) total which should provide you with plenty of addresses even if you are hosting gaming convention at your home.
I use the following IP address scheme for the "permanent" network clients:
Network Printers: 10.0.1.200 - 209
NAS Devices: 10.0.1.210 - 219
Wireless Access Points or routers reconfigured as bridges: 10.0.1.220 - 229
Servers: 10.0.1.230 - 239
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Organizing albums by year on ios device

Is there a way to organize itunes match albums by year on an iOS device similar to what we have on iTunes?
I hate having the albums all over the place (OCD)

Michael Allbritton wrote:
If you've downloaded the tracks to your iOS device you'll need to delete the tracks for the ID3 changes to take affect.
I haven't downloaded any music onto my iPhone as far as I'm concern, I don know they propably get downloaded as you play them, I will have to check on that.
Michael Allbritton wrote:
As to displaying albums in "boxsets," I'm not sure exactly what you mean. Do you mean you want the Albums to be displayed in the same way in the Music app as they are in the iTunes Store? I don't think that is possible, honestly.
What I do (and this might be useful to you) is put the title of the boxset in the Album field. For example: Abbey Road (The Beatles in Stereo), or The Doors L.A. Woman (The Complete Studio Albums).
Or you can use the Sort Album field. I haven't this, but what you could do is put the title of the boxset in the Sort Album field and see if that does what you want it do. In short, play around with the ID3 tag fields in iTunes to get what you want. You won't hurt anything and if you don't like the results just delete the tag from the field and it goes back to like it was.
I've tried and it doesn't really do anything, I just thought they way they showed it on the iTunes store was going to be tha way they'll look in my library, no biggie.

IOS Device Management in Enterprise

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I need to understand some fundamentals about have iOS devices in the enterprise (I'm talking not BYO devices, but corporate provided devices.)
We have around 300 Blackberry's and whatever the opinions are of RIM, they have nailed the corporate rollout and control of devices in the enterprise. I'm struggling to get real-world 'enterprise' examples on how the Apple devices can be managed from both an Apple account level and activation. The device control and ActiveSync profiles are easy but still not as friendly as a BES.
I am evaluating iPads (Gen2) and iPhones (Gen4) in our environment as a direct competitor to Blackberry devices - mostly driven by, surprise surprise - the consumer.
My issues with large scale Apple iOS device rollouts are (and I'm looking for solutions on how to resolve them!):
1. 'Enterprise' activation of large number of devices (more than 50 - mixture of iPhones & iPads) - come on, again with itunes??
2. One iTunes account to rule them all - this is not currently possible? It appears I'm having to create multiple iTunes accounts to register and allocate applications to '5 - itunes/apple id limited' number of devices, then another account for another lot and so on. This is VERY painful for large deployments. Help!! How many devices can I register with a single instance of iTunes and how many devices can I register with a single account?
3. Activation of devices WITHOUT itunes AND the internet (probably not possible but I'm asking anyway?)
4. Better iTunes support for Proxy authentication - currently its hit and miss. Again, very annoying when behind firewalls and proxy servers.
5. Will iOS 5 save me the frustration?
How do people manage these things?
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Cheers - Pete

In the end I called Apple support to try and resolve this.
The official answer is:
"All Apple developed applications that utilise file sharing services require an active internet connection for those services to work, even for local shares."
The support supervisor I spoke to agreed that technically you do not need an internet connection to access a local file sharing service it was just Apple's policy for it's own apps that these apps would only allow file sharing whilst there was an active internet connection.
The solution proposed to me was to sync documents via iTunes which is not really acceptable.
Not happy Apple.

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