Sync between two computers and iPhone

I am probably not the first to notice that but I am slightly annoyed that I cannot sync my phone with my home and work computers. As a result my work computer and iPhone is now completely depleted of all my contacts. The guys at O2 said that only one computer can sync to the phone.
Pretty poor show I must say. Apple could really have thought about something more user-friendly; i.e enable the phone to be a storage devise rather than a mere carrier of data. I don't think I would have bought the phone if I had known all its snags beforehand despite the fact that it has some great features.
Hope an upgrade will solve all these issues. I am sure it would make a lot of users happy.
Oli

I think you meant to say "merge"
I am trying at the moment with fingers crossed.
One has Leopard the other Tiger. I hope it works.
Oh I turned on airplane mode and disconnected from the internet just to be sure sync doesn't get stuck.
Asked me to resolve 6 conflicts.. that's a good sign. It is taking a long time though. I hope it won't take so long every time I go from one computer to another. Otherwise it is easier to pass the files via iChat.
The file for address book is addressbook data in library/applicationsupport/address book
for iCal I make an export VCal file and then on the other computer delete the calendar and import the new one.
On the computer with Music I set it to manage manually.
OK I think I will have to do it like that because this took forever then it said it would have to modify 836 entries on my calendar for what was almost the same file.
The photo sync is annoying but I just turn off iPhoto when it asks to find my library (or you can make another program be the default program when you attach a camera and that program will come on then you can just quit it). I find the auto photo sync annoying as it takes so long and I would rather do that manually.

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Sync between two computers and iPhones?

We have 2 mac laptops, both running the latest OS. We also have 2 iPhones. How can we have the same calendar on all devices and have the ability to edit that calendar from any computer or iphone?
Thanks!
Kumar

With a MobileMe account or a CALDAV server.
It cannot be done with a "local" calendar that way, it needs to be "live".

How to keep playlists in sync between two computers?

I have a MacBook Pro and a regular desktop Windows 7, and I have all of my music on both of them. However, I constantly keep adding new songs to different playlists all the time, and this makes it hard to keep everything in sync with both computers and my iPod because I usually sync from my Mac.
Right now I export the updated playlists on one of the computers and import it on the other, but it's quite the hassle just to keep some playlists in sync. I tried using home sharing, but it just keeps downloading duplicates everytime I try to import, I would've thought it was smarter by just adding the new songs but appearently it isn't.
So, anyways, is there any easy way for me to automatically keep playlists in sync between two computers?

I am indeed subscribed to iTunes Match. Are you saying that with Match, it will sync my playlists? I will have to check this when I get home. That would really be a nice surprise!
I sync my iPod to iTunes on my Windows 7 box, but use iTunes on my Mac for synching my iPhone 6 and iPad 2. Normally, I'd be modifying a playlist on the Win 7 box, adding or rearranging songs. However, occasionally, I might download a song to the iPhone while out and about. Then, when I'm back at the Mac, I'd do a sync and add that new song to one of the playlists. Should Match then be keeping the playlists on the two machines in sync?
As for the library replication, I had to do that when I first signed up for Match. I was WAY over the 25k song limit, so I made a copy of the library, and in that copy deleted enough songs to get me under the limit. Also discovered scripting and did some really neat things with that tool. Still have the option when I start iTunes to use the old library, just in case there's something there I need to copy to the smaller lib.

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Sorry, I should be more specific. I want to have my calendar, email, address book and to do list all in one app.

HT204053 I have set up i cloud but my calendars wont sync between MacBook, Ipad and iPhone. Is there a refresh style option or does anyone know what to do to make sure the calendar on my MacBook is the one that the other devices reads. Thanks everyone.

I have set up i cloud but my calendars wont sync between MacBook, Ipad and iPhone. Is there a refresh style option or does anyone know what to do to make sure the calendar on my MacBook is the one that the other devices reads. Thanks everyone.

Don't spend a lot of time trying to change it. It's an iCloud problem that's happened before, and when it happened in August it went back to the correct colors in a few days. Just be careful when you add new items to the calendar to use the right calendar (even if the color is wrong), otherwise you'll have things out of synch when the correct colors come back.

Did Mountain Lion break calendar and note sync between the Mac and iPhone?

When I was running Lion, my calendars and notes synced properly between my Mac and iPhone (with notes going into Mail.app). After upgrading to Mountain Lion, the notes on my Mac were moved into Notes.app and my calendars appeared to be unharmed. I've recently noticed that neither my calendars nor my notes are syncing between my Mac and iPhone.
I use iTunes to sync my data (either via USB or WiFi) and have no interest in moving to iCloud. I have tried the suggestion of enabling iCloud sync on my iPhone, then disabling, as well as telling iTunes to overwrite the calendar data on my iPhone. Neither of these approaches has solved my sync problem.

I found a solution to my problem. Hopefully it helps someone else too.
I deleted the following file and folder:
~/Library/Calendars/Calendar Cache
~/Library/Calendars/Calendar Sync Changes/
When I synced my iPhone, I was presented with several sync conflicts to resolve. I resolved them and applied the changes immediately. Now my Mac and iPhone are in sync and I've confirmed that changes are syncing from my Mac to my iPhone (I'll confirm that it works the other direction tomorrow when I can look at my calendar at work).
This is the thread that helped me:
https://discussions.apple.com/message/19121379#19121379

My icalendar is not syncing between my mac and iphone

My icalendar is not syncing between my mac and iphone. Everything for icalendar and icloud is turned on for all devices. PLEASE HELP

Settings>icloud. Assuming you have already set up the connection to icloud (ID, password), then turn on Calendars on that screen.
If they don't appear, then log into icloud.com using a computer's browser and look at the calendars page. If empty, then you are not syncing calendars from your device to icloud. If there, then be sure Calendars is turned on in Settings>iCloud or System Preferences>iCloud.

Question about syncing between two computers

I feel a bit silly, because I feel as though I should know this, but I'm not sure because it has never applied to me until now.
My main computer is a Vista machine, and everything is sync'd with that. However, I bought a MacBook last night (WOO-HOO!) to use as a secondary machine, and I'd like to get all of my contact and calendar info into that machine as well.
I'm envisioning the following scenario:
1. I will put at least one contact and at least one calendar event into Mac Mail and iCal in my new, empty MacBook...
2. I will connect my iPhone to sync with the MacBook and iTunes will offer me the magic "merge" option.
3. All of the information in my phone will be sync'd to my new MacBook, and I will have two computers and an iPhone all with the same info.
Are there any holes in my vision? Will this work?
Thanks,
-SB

This should work as provided.
If something goes wrong with the sync process with your MacBook and this data is lost on your iPhone, you have your Vista machine with this data to recover from.
If you aren't already doing so, be sure to create a backup of this data on your Vista machine - contact information and calendar events - which should be done when syncing any device such as an iPhone with such important information stored on your computer.

USB commnuication between two computers and air

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I want to connect two computers and send data through a usb cable. Prior app was using wifi however signal was not consistent and I need consistency.
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My note has stopped syncing between my ipad and iphone

Note has stopped syncing between my ipad and my iphone. Can anybody help please?

Settings>icloud. Assuming you have already set up the connection to icloud (ID, password), then turn on Calendars on that screen.
If they don't appear, then log into icloud.com using a computer's browser and look at the calendars page. If empty, then you are not syncing calendars from your device to icloud. If there, then be sure Calendars is turned on in Settings>iCloud or System Preferences>iCloud.

My Notes no longer sync between my mac and iPhone. I have tried everything.

My notes used to sync between my phone and my mac until a week and a half ago when it all of a sudden stopped. I have done absolutely everything that I have seen given as rememdies to this and nothing is working. I am thinking it is an issue with the phone, not the laptop. What now?

I have gone to setting and tried to unmark and remark Notes within iCloud and within gmail and any other accounts I can. I have tried relogging in to all accounts that have Notes marked on both the phone and the computer. I have tried resetting the network connection. I have tried moving the notes on the computer from one account to another to see if that changes anything. I have tried plugging the phone into the laptop and resolving things that way.
I normally have synced through iCloud and also through gmail. My iCloud storage is nearly full but I didn't think that that would be one of the effecting factors?
I am all out of ideas. It just stopped all of a sudden?

Keychain syncing between two computers

I'm not sure where this post belongs as the issues seems to span different aspects of my computers. Originally I thought it was a mobileme issue but support was unable to help and over the last year I've tried many internet searches and asked many people, the latest of which is here
Basically, I'm trying to sync 2 computers and an iPhone with mobileme. I can sync 1 computer and the phone but never both computers and the phone. In fact the phone is always OK so I doubt that the problem is there. I've set up mobileme to sync various items but there are 2 issues that seem to relate to keychains being saved on only one or the other computers - never both:
iCal on computer 1 is totally blank no calendars or events are loaded from mobileme. Setting up the mobileme server is fine but NEVER allows the password to be saved - the password field is always blank after closing and opening iCal prefs. iCal on computer 2 works perfectly and has been set up in exactly the same way as iCal on computer 1.
I have 4 Mail accounts. Whenever I open Mail on computer 1 I need to reenter the passwords for Mail accounts a and b. Whenever I open Mail on computer 2 I need to reenter the passwords for Mail accounts c and d
Other than this sync between the 2 computers will collapse completely after a few minutes, hours or days and I will get Keychain Error message....
.... or sometimes a File Sync error relating to iDisk when I try to turn iDisk sync back on.
One or other computer will log out of mobileme and I will get a mobileme password error saying I've entered the wrong one. I then log back in which breaks the sync on the other computer. The longest I've had the computers syncing is a couple of days, but the keychain issues with Mail and iCal mentioned above are constant. If I get bored (as I often do) and just leave one of the computers out of mobileme sync for a while the 2 Mail accounts will ALWAYS need to have there passwords reentered. If the Save to my keychain checkbox is checked the error message will NEVER go away - the only way to get the Mail account to work for that session is to leave the checkbox unchecked. Quitting and restarting Mail will result in the passwords having to be reentered.
With both computers synced with mobileme I will get the error at some point and every time I get this error, I have to re-sync data with mobileme and restart iDisk sync.
I have deleted iCal prefs on both computers, deleted me.com keychains on both computers, repaired keychains on both computers, opened iSync and reset sync history on both computers, but nothing has done it yet.
Any help and suggestions will be much appreciated.

Couple suggestions
1. Disable Automatic Sync on both computers. So when you do connect it does not go into an auto sync right away and allows you to check all the proper tabs to ensure they are set correctly per computer.
When you connect iPhone and get a summary screen you should see advanced options below with a box called automatically sync, uncheck and apply.
2. On one computer if you go to the Music tab when Iphone is connected it should be set to sync music. Which will be fine for the computer you want music to go to and from.
As far as when you connect to the second computer
The music tab when iPhone is connected should be unchecked and should not really sync with music at all.
You can keep automatically synced checked if you like and prefer. The un-checking just gives you more time to check areas before you do normal syncing.

No sync between two computers since last update

running Mail 2.0.5 (746.2) / 10.4.3 (8F46)
Did in the past: synchronize/copy (actually used rsync) all my Library/Mail files between two machines (including preferences asf) and have the same settings and mails on both machines.
Since the latest update this no longer works. Instead, each time mail starts on the machine onto which I copied, it complains that something is corrupt and that it has to update all the indices. (I have >100,000 emails; therefore, this is slightly annoying.)
any advice on how to synchronize between two machines (without going through .mac which is not an option for me due to the slowness)?

The fact of the matter is that PSE is aimed at the casual/hobbyist user, and will always have some limitations because of that. There are workarounds to "push the envelope", but they will always require constant vigilance and effort.
You can get some tips (and warnings) about storing the catalog on a network drive here:
http://www.johnrellis.com/psedbtool/photoshop-elements-faq.htm#_Storing_the_catalog
To answer your immediate concern, you basically want to have one and only one copy of the catalog somewhere that's accessed by both computers. That catalog should be listing photos that are stored in one and only one "master" image location. Then you can use SyncToy to keep the images in sync to that master image location, and use Organizer to update its thumbnails whenever the original images are changed. N.B.: the Organizer's catalog does not support multiple concurrent access.
Ken
P.S., I've never used the sync to photoshop.com, so someone else will have to comment about that.
Message was edited by: photodrawken to add postscript.

Syncing between two computers

I have two laptops, one stays at home and one I travel with. I have my Itouch 2G synced with my home laptop and now I want to sync it with the one I travel with. The problem is, when I go to sync the applications on the travel laptop, it tells me all existing applications will be replaced with the one on this laptop. There are no apps on this laptop, I want to put them on there not remove them from the Itouch.
How do I resolve this issue?
PS. I've tried this before with a work laptop and it wiped out everything I had on my Itouch
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Use the Transfer Purchases command to move applications between the computers.
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IMessage stopped syncing between MacBook Air and iPhone 5

Hello,
Until the weekend my iMessages synced between iphone and MacBook Air, but from Monday I have been sending and receiving iMessgaes from my phone which never arrive at the MacBook. I didn't get the iOS upgrade till yesterday so it's not that, and haven't knowingly made any other changes over the weekend. I've checked both setups and both are syncing using my phone number plus 3 email addresses.
Can anyone tell me how to fix it please?

Associate your mobile number with your Apple ID, if you haven't already done so:
Apple - My Apple ID
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Then, on the phone, tap Use Your Apple ID for iMessage.
Sign back into iMessage on both devices and test.
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