New user, got the iPhone on Friday 22nd, Here are some questions & comments
I got the 8 GB iPhone. The AT&T sales girl was very helpful. My first question is about syncing with my MBP. The first sync went OK, I did have to get Apple tech support on the line or I would not have been successful. However, It all worked as it was supposed to work. The sales girl told me that when I did a sync that would move data from the computer to the iPhone but not from the iPhone to the computer in iCal. That seems a bit dumb since many times I use my Treo, which quit working, to make calendar entries while I am away from my computer and then can connect to my computer and update iCal. On another forum there was a long discussion of how to do a work around.
This morning I connected my iPhone to my MBP. The iPhone lit up, I slid it unlock and nothing more happened. I opened iTunes and still nothing happened. I had expected iTunes to open automatically. Once I opened iTunes, I expected a button to appear on the iTunes window. Nothing. I did find an item under the file menu that said something like "sync iPhone", I selected that and as far as I could tell nothing happened. What am I missing?
The sales girl told me that when I did a sync that would move data from the computer to the iPhone but not from the iPhone to the computer in iCal.
Not true.
Check this link.
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=306071
Are you running the current iTunes version?
To each his/her own but I prefer not having iTunes sync my iPhone or iPod automatically when connected since I often want to make a change or two, or confirm settings and then selecting sync.
If you have iTunes preferences and your iPhone preferences set to sync automatically when your iPhone is connected, it should do so.
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