Should iMessage conversations deleted on iPhone be automatically deleted on Mac w/Mountain Lion?
I've been searching exhaustively for an answer to this question & haven't found one yet. I have a MacBook Pro 13" (February 2011) with Mountain Lion 10.8.2. I also have an iPhone 4 w/iOS 6. I have it Messages on the Mac synced with iMessages on the phone exactly as people have instructed, and I do see conversations on one showing up on the other. What I don't understand, though, is that when I delete a conversation on one, that conversation is not deleted from the other. Is that supposed to be the case? I would have expected that, with all the new iCloud integration, if you delete a iMessage conversation on, say, the iPhone, it will automatically delete that conversation on the Mac or other iOS devices that are synced. Any thoughts?
Mine have to be deleted on each device. My wife's devices are the same. Evidently, that is the way it is set up.
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or
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Thank you
You don't use the iTunes Store for your computer. You use the App Store. But to do so you must upgrade your computer to 10.6.8 provided you have an Intel model.
Upgrading to Snow Leopard
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Snow Leopard General Requirements
1. Mac computer with an Intel processor
2. 1GB of memory
3. 5GB of available disk space
4. DVD drive for installation
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6. Some features require Apple’s iCloud services; fees and
terms apply.
Upgrading to Mountain Lion
To upgrade to Mountain Lion you must have Snow Leopard 10.6.8 or Lion installed. Purchase a redemption code at the Online Apple Store: OS X Mountain Lion. Mountain Lion is $19.99 plus tax. Use the code to redeem a download of Mountain Lion from the App Store. The file is quite large, over 4 GBs, so allow some time to download. It would be preferable to use Ethernet because it is nearly four times faster than wireless.
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2. MacBook (Late 2008 Aluminum, or Early 2009 or newer) - Model
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3. MacBook Pro (Mid/Late 2007 or newer) - Model Identifier 3,1 or later.
4. MacBook Air (Late 2008 or newer) - Model Identifier 2,1 or later.
5. Mac mini (Early 2009 or newer) - Model Identifier 3,1 or later.
6. Mac Pro (Early 2008 or newer) - Model Identifier 3,1 or later.
7. Xserve (Early 2009) - Model Identifier 3,1 or later.
To find the model identifier open System Profiler in the Utilities folder. It's displayed in the panel on the right.
Are my applications compatible?
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OS X Mavericks/Yosemite - System Requirements
Macs that can be upgraded to OS X Yosemite
1. iMac (Mid 2007 or newer) - Model Identifier 7,1 or later
2. MacBook (Late 2008 Aluminum, or Early 2009 or newer) - Model Identifier 5,1 or later
3. MacBook Pro (Mid/Late 2007 or newer) - Model Identifier 3,1 or later
4. MacBook Air (Late 2008 or newer) - Model Identifier 2,1 or later
5. Mac mini (Early 2009 or newer) - Model Identifier 3,1 or later
6. Mac Pro (Early 2008 or newer) - Model Identifier 3,1 or later
7. Xserve (Early 2009) - Model Identifier 3,1 or later
To find the model identifier open System Profiler in the Utilities folder. It's displayed in the panel on the right.
Are my applications compatible?
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Upgrading to Lion
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Lion System Requirements
1. Mac computer with an Intel Core 2 Duo, Core i3, Core i5, Core i7,
or Xeon processor
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4. 7GB of available space
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I downloaded Mountain Lion from the app store, to upgrade from Lion. When it completed downloading I clicked the install button. The screen went to gray and I have a spinning ball. It has been like this for about 15 minutes. Is this the normal screen during an update to Mountain Lion? I do not want to restart the computer and have it crash my system.
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See Here for Upgrading to ML...
First check the Compatibility of your Mac...
Upgrade to Mountain Lion
Then... Before attempting any Major Upgrade... get yourself an External Hard Drive... and create a Bootable Clone Backup of your current Hard Drive...
By far the easiest way to make such a Backup, is to use something like
SuperDuper http://www.shirt-pocket.com/
or CCC http://www.bombich.com/
That way, should anything untoward happen during the Upgrade,
you will NOT LOSE ANYTHING.
(Get an EHD that is at least equal to your current Drive...)
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IPhone 4 not showing in iTunes 11 (Mountain Lion 10.8.2)
I'm at the end of my tether with this one. I bought a MacBook Pro about two weeks ago to replace my older (black) MacBook from 2006. My iPhone 4 had been synced with the MacBook with no problems all year. My new MacBook Pro came with iTunes 11 and so I plugged it in, chose the erase and sync option knowing full well that I wanted to sync my phone with the iTunes on my new MacBook Pro.
For about ten days now my phone has been unable to register in iTunes at all. I mean, the Device list is not even available. I can't change my music or sync new apps or anything. I can't even get into Devices to restore my bloody phone to see if that will work. I have reset my phone after backing it up on iCloud.
My guess is that my phone may still be synced to my old MacBook so I tried plugging it into that, but I had the same issue. When I plug it into both, there is a delay before the double buzz that lets me know it's charging. The charging icon appears on my phone screen for a few seconds, then disconnects even though it's still plugged into my computer. Then occassionally it will re-connect, then disconnect many times. Yet NEVER does the phone appear in iTunes, nor does the sync icon appear on the phone.
I've tried everything, I've deleted iTunes from my MacBook and re-installed iTunes 11 and then plugged my phone in again at which point it actually appeared but then I received an error message and before I had chance to read it, it had disappeared and now I'm back to square one. However, when I re-installed iTunes, all my music remained so it wasn't a 'new' version of iTunes with nothing in it.
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Device manager on left hand side.
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Right click on the devices and click uninstall.
Unplug your iphone.
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