Sync is a nightmare...

With iTunes, sync is very very hard. Well, let's see my problem :
I have a 16 Go iPhone 4 ; it is a great phone and I love all his features. But its space is not enough for all my photos. For example, if I want to have all my friends' faces in my iPhone, I cannot because there are too much photos. I would like to sync only "x last faces" but I cannot. iTunes enables only syncing faces but not a part of faces.
Another example to the nightmare of iPhone users : iTunes
What can be done with this ?
Regards

Tgara wrote:
TZ wrote:
Tgara wrote:
Loyal Mac users upgrade to Lion.
What fantastic bit of info.
All I have to do is replace a bunch of my Macs with the latest and greatest and then get rid of all my clients that insist on using older uncool software to generate those annoying files that I'll no longer be able to work with.
Terri, don't blame Apple for the situation, particularly with Quicken. Apple opened Lion up to developers a long time ago, and most software publishers took advantage of this time to update their products so they would be compatible with Lion once it came out. Intuit, the publisher of Quicken, either chose not to update or is still working on it. Your problem with Quicken rests with Intuit, which simply has not kept up with advances in the technology. Look at what they say on their web page about Lion:
"Quicken for Mac 2005, 2006 and 2007 were originally built for the older PowerPC architecture, and were able to run on newer Intel-based Macs due to an Apple technology called Rosetta. As of Mac OS X 10.7, Apple has discontinued support for Rosetta."
http://quicken.intuit.com/support/help/install--register--and-convert/quicken-fo r-mac-compatibility-with-mac-osx-10-7-lion/GEN83208.html
PowerPC Macs have not been made since 2006, yet Intuit continues to rely on outdated hardware for their flagship software product. I understand your frustration with all this, but you should direct your ire at the proper party: Intuit. By not updating their software as so many other software publishers have already done does a disservice to their customers, as you are finding out.
I never mentioned Quicken at all in my posts. Personally I don't use Quicken.
I do need to open up FrameMaker, Pagemaker and dozens of other files that clients give me.
I just need an OS that runs programs that I need to use in order to work with my clients. Lion is not that OS.

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TS1881 Syncing what a nightmare!!!

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It's pretty much impossible to offer much in the way of help when you include no details. We need at least the following before anyone can even begin to diagnose the problem and offer suggestions:
- What OS is running on your computer?
- what version of iOS is on the iPhone?
- in what application are you keeping your contacts on the computer?
- how are you trying to sync?
- and what happens when you try?
Once we have that information, then someone can probably offer advice.
By the way, you posted originally in the iPod touch forum. I've asked the Hosts to move your thread to the iPhone forum.
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Restoring new iPhone 4S from iCloud backup has created a sync nightmare with iTunes

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Edit: Going to repost this in iPhone discussion. You may discard this posting here. I unfortunately couldn't delete the post.

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Welcome to the Apple Community.
To begin with, I would like to try to explain Apple's confusing nomenclature in regard to iCloud.
Apple have called the whole cloud thing iCloud, there are a number of features under the iCloud umbrella, some of which require their own login. iTunes is one of these, another is what Apple have unfortunately also called iCloud too.
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Why syncing is a ridiculous nightmare

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OH WAIT IT'S IMPOSSIBLE. Can someone please shoot me now?

Graham Outterside wrote:
Why do you NEED 60,000 raw images on your phone ? Not that they are in RAW format of course. Its a phone not a portable computer.
You did not understand my post. In fact you got it backwards. I don't want the RAWs to sync. Only the JPEGs in the folders I select, which contain both RAW and JPG. The problem is you can not do this. Instead, iTunes copies the RAW and the JPG so there are two of every photo on my phone, which is dumb.
Out of interest purely.
Profanities will get your thread pulled - it impresses no-one and makes people even less sympathetic.
I'm not looking for sympathy and I didn't curse. Though you wouldn't know what word I actually used, since it was censored, but it was not a curse word. Just me being blunt.
If there were two applications, one for music and one for photo's there would be many many more complaints about having to sync twice in effect. The current solution serves the overwhelming majority - even me with 10,000 images on the phone quite happily and without fuss.
No, you misread me again. I did not suggest two different apps for syncing. I am suggesting one app for playing music, and a different one for syncing music, photos, movies, etc. That is much more sensible than kludging a feature into iTunes (syncing photos) that it was not originally intended for.
The fact that iTunes is used for syncing is merely an accident of bloatware evolution, stemming from all "iDevices" having the old iPod as a common ancestor. Back in the days of the first iPod, it made perfect sense to sync the device with iTunes, since all it did was play music. Since all "iDevices" share this common ancestor, they inherited its method of syncing. This is because Apple has not bothered to renovate, modernize, or update the syncing paradigm since the original iPod.
However, now that the iPhone 4 and iPad are mobile computing devices that are more powerful than the Macintosh computers from decades past, it's high time to totally renovate and redo the syncing process. My photo syncing problem is just one example of how broken and incapable the current syncing system is.
Its clear you don't understand the iTunes GUi and thats fair enough as you don't appear to need it. Just as well you don't need it to sync photo's really so I don't see why you have an issue.
Wrong again. I fully understand it, and worse, I do in fact need it. Because right now it's the only option, therefore I need it if I want to sync photos. Sigh, you really don't understand any of what I'm saying.
The software clearly isn;t designed for your pattern of use which is again, fair enough so perhaps you could use something else which gives you more of what you want - like a Droid and Windows if thats what it takes.
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