Sync chaos and rollback to good old non-iCloud times

Hi. I've got a problem with iCloud sync. I posess a pair of macbooks, an iPad and an iPhone. All those gadgets are syncing to the icloud: docs, pictures and music. I'm really unhappy with how they do it, because I've got no control over the process and I don't understand when what is going to be placed / removed from what gadget. The playlists I have in iTunes appear and disappear in an unpredictable way from my gadgets. Music is being copied, sometimes as file, sometimes as an iCloud alias, sometimes as nothing. Pictures I take - (well, I almost stopped working with pictures on mac, because after 20 years of working on the mac I totally fail to understand the "intuitive, self-organizing, protective, bla-bla-bla interface") - my pictures appear on the photostream, multiply themselves, disappear on their own, e.t.c. Address Book contacts are doubled, 3x, 4x, 10x-ed. Worse then that, I have - due to the chaos Apple had with the transition from .mac to .me 2 accounts, which contain lots of valuable stuff. Or 4? .mac, .me, .icloud and one which is not an email adress. And it's impossible to merge them (though was promised for years). Computer lives its own life, I'm excluded from using it.
Currently, I'm rolling back from 10.8.2 to 10.6.8, because I can't tolerate the OS bugs anymore. After seeing what's in the iOS6 I'm looking for the possibility to roll back to iOS4 my mobile devices as well - I don't want to have anything with iCloud. Does anyone know if it is possible? If not, I will consider to replace my digital ecosystem with something less crazy.

I have vaguely similar issues. Different but along the same lines and totally to do with iCloud. The day I "upgraded" to the cloud is the day I started wanting to smash my Mac. I have had calendar dates triple every single event on my calendar from the day I got my imac 3 years ago. I have had contacts and groups triple and quadruple. I have had notes which do not sync in VERY SPECIFIC ways (detailed in another post) which MAKES NO SENSE. Right now, If I type a new note on my Mac, it multiplies itself as I am typing the note, so by the time I have typed 4 lines I have 4 copies of the note, in varying stages of "doneness" based on how much was in the note at the instant it created itself. Then I have to delete 5+ notes every time I create a note? PLUS, a new note created on my MAC DOES NOT sync to the cloud or my iphone. But changes to existing notes do?????????
The Geniuses are no good. They are all parroting useless phrases which I am sure they have been told to say about the Cloud. No one will acknowledge that it is THEIR fault and that they could do something to at least let US, THEIR LOYAL USERS know that they know that something is not right.

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How To OTA Sync BB10 and non-BES Outlook (Details)

Step By Step Instructions for configuring wireless synchronization of Calendar
and Contacts between a PC/Outlook platform and a BlackBerry 10 mobile device
Note1: This process, similar to others posted on the Internet, is intended to achieve "passive" (e.g., no special user action required) synchronization of Contacts and Calendar. However, this process is for users who wish a "cleaner" interface in their Outlook client...other solutions result in, for example, multiple Calendar containers within the interface...this solution results in just those which are synchronizing via Outlook.com.
Note2: This process is intended for users who have OTHER THAN Hotmail or Outlook.com already as their PRIMARY account within their Outlook client.
Note3: This process is intended for advanced Outlook users; very little specific instructions about how to do things inside of the Outlook client will be provided (but questions are welcome, and will be handled within this thread...just not in the opening posts). This has been tested on Outlook 2007 and 2010 -- it is reported that the Hotmail Connector is not required for Outlook 2013.
Note 4:  More information, caveats, etc. can be found below, in Message 2 of this thread.
PREPARATION
1.  Back up your Microsoft Outlook data
e.g., in Outlook, make a separate copy of your calendar and contact items to a separate .PST file
2. Take careful note, inside of your Outlook client, of ALL configurations, email accounts, attached PSTs, etc., including any passwords, server names, ports, security, etc. necessary to use those items
You will be creating a brand new empty Outlook profile...and will need to replicate everything manually
Printing Screen Shots is a convenient way to do this
3. Take note of your preferred Outlook layout (e.g., Reading Pane on or off, left or bottom, etc.)
4. Export any Outlook Rules you may use
5. Create an Outlook.com account (if you do not have an existing account, including Hotmail)
EXECUTION
1. Close Microsoft Outlook, then download and install the Microsoft Office Outlook Hotmail Connector via the following link:
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/outlook/microsoft-office-outlook-hotmail-connector-overview-HA0102...
2. Create a new MS Outlook profile
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You may need to use the separate Outlook Profiles wizard
3. Launch Outlook, selecting the newly created empty profile
4. When prompted to add your first account, use the advanced settings and select the Hotmail Connector
Enter your Hotmail/Outlook.com account credentials when prompted.
5. Copy/Import your Calendar and Contact data into their default containers in this Outlook Profile
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If you used another means to backup your Calendar/Contact data (e.g, CSV), then follow the appropriate instructions to import into the default containers of this Outlook profile
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6. At this point, Microsoft Outlook should connect to the Hotmail/Outlook.com servers to sync the data. It may take some time for this process to complete depending on the number of entries being transferred.
You can view the progress in the bottom right status area of Microsoft Outlook.
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7. Now add your Hotmail/Outlook.com account to your BlackBerry 10 device. Your info will then sync to your device.
Note: this process may take some time to complete depending on the number of entries.
By default, it will configure with PUSH turned ON, which may result in delayed/never synchronization of some items. Turning PUSH off and allowing it to PULL at your chosen interval usually allows synchronization to properly complete.
8. Once everything has populated to your BlackBerry 10 device, you can confirm the setup by creating a test contact or calendar item in Microsoft Outlook and wait for that to sync to your BlackBerry 10 device, and vice versa.
9. Now you can configure into the new Outlook profile all of the additional configurations, email accounts, attached PSTs, and rules that you previously used.
10. Finally, denote your desired email account as the Default within this Outlook profiles "Account Settings".
Note that this is "Account Settings"...not "Data File Settings"
For Outlook to properly work with your preferred email account, you must denote it as default -- but that setting will not affect Calendar and Contact synchronization through Hotmail/Outlook.com.
Congratulations! You now have the ability to keep your Microsoft Outlook and your BlackBerry 10 device synchronized for both calendar and contacts, with a "cleaner" Outlook interface (fewer "containers" displayed), and you need no longer tether to your PC in order to do so.
Good Luck!
More information, caveats, warnings, etc. can be found in the next post.
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Additional information, caveats, warnings, etc. related to wireless synchronization
of Calendar and Contacts between a PC/Outlook platform and a BlackBerry 10 mobile device
If you just got a new BlackBerry 10 device, you may find that you can no longer directly sync your contacts and calendar between Microsoft Outlook on your computer and your device via the BlackBerry Desktop Software or BlackBerry Link -- currently, that function is not available (though the word is that it will return by the end of the year). Until another sync option is available, what do you do? One option is to use an email service that offers these abilities, and thus far, the best seems to be Hotmail/Outlook.com (Gmail and Yahoo each claim the same ability, but have limitations). The above step-by-step instructions will also give you this ability, but the following additional information may be important to your specific situation.
1. This process is NOT INTENDED to fully replace the direct sync (USB or BT) between a BB and a desktop app (e.g., Outlook).
If you have need of that for security or other reasons, then this will not replace it (but BlackBerry has stated publicly that they intend to return that method to market by the end of this year).
But this process may be just fine for a subset of users who previously used direct USB/BT sync.
2. This process only only works for Calendars and Contacts. Other than a full BES implementation, there is currently no way (that we are aware of) to sync tasks and memos for personal use.
3. After you have completed the above configuration, you should adjust your Send/Receive settings in Microsoft Outlook to ensure that everything syncs on a regular basis (e.g. every 5 minutes).
4. You may also want to go back and reconcile any errors to fix things that did not transfer between your original Microsoft Outlook Calendar/Contacts and your new Hotmail/Outlook.com Calendar/Contacts.
5. Even if you do not use Hotmail/Outlook.com for any email, do not be tempted to prevent email synchronization of that account within Outlook...if you do, your Calendar and Contact items will not synchronize either.
6. Be very careful, during the preparation stage, to gather all of the details you will need so as to properly configure the new Outlook profile.
If anything goes wrong, you should be able to simply delete the new Outlook profile and fall back to the prior one so as to start over.
7. This process is intended to result in not only a "passive" handling of calendar and contact synchronization (much like other solutions), but also a "cleaner" interface within the Outlook client.
Other methods available create additional containers in Outlook for both Calendar and Contacts. Even though those can be denoted as "default" (and, thereby, process items "passively"), you will still be presented with multiple containers within the Outlook interface.
This method eliminates those additional containers, showing you only your primary set of containers, yet still processing items correctly within them.
8. Note carefully the success/failure of synchronization. If you leave, on your BB10, Hotmail/Outlook.com configured for PUSH and things are not synchronizing correctly or timely, then consider turning PUSH off and setting it to poll at a frequency you are comfortable with.
Tests have revealed this to be a problem with PUSH, but changing to PULL seems to correct it.
9. In the Outlook client, when you invite someone to a meeting, you may want to override the account from which the invitation is sent.
By default, Outlook will use your Hotmail/Outlook.com account for new meetings you create and invite others to, reagardless of the email account you have assigned as "default" in the Outlook profile.
But, before you send the invitation, you can override that default, and send the invitation "from" a different email account that you have integrated into Outlook
The item will still populate to your calendar, and synchronize through Hotmail/Outlook.com to your BB10 device
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