Syncing an imac with a MacPro

I'm purchasing a MacBook Pro as a second computer for our office. What is the best way to set up a system so that each computer will "mirror" the other? Thanks.

The iphone will sync/access music with ONE computer at a time.
Move all of your music from your old computer to your new one first, then sync.
You can use your backup copy to move the music to the new computer.

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Trying to sync home imac with another elswhere on cloud when I go to system preferences, icould option not theresb

trying to sync current home imac with one elsewhere via icloud...latter is synced with iphone etc...on current machine, instructed to access icloud via system preferences but icloud is not an option there...how do I put it there?

Both systems must be using Lion, are they and what exactly are you attempting to sync?

Can I sync my imac with my ipod ?

How do I sync my imac, ipod, and ipad together?

To do it directly just connect the iPad/iPod to the Mac and you will be able to sync certain files via iTunes. Other files can be synced indirectly via iCloud if your devices meet the system requirements and you set it up.
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How to sync my imac with my macbook

How do I sync my xl files and word docs, itunes and photo library, etc from my 2012 macbook with my new 2014 imac?
I have a thunderbolt cable and when I tried to migrate, it would only migrate nearly everything and said it would take 35 hours. I thought the thunderbolt cable was fast. I can save to an external drive faster than that.
Also, how do I use the imac as an external CD and DVD for my imac?

If you mean copy files from one to the other you can connect the two via firewire cable and boot one into Target Disk Mode.

How do I Sync my iMac with my Mac Book Pro?

I'm always jumping between these two computers. How do I sync them so the Entourage, calendar, libraries etc. are all the same and when I make a change on one it happens on the other? Is there an application other than Mobile Me that comes with the iMac?

MobileMe is Apple’s only solution for syncing but at this time it doesn’t “come with the iMac” as it has an annual cost. There are rumours of a new ‘cloud’ based service to be available soon but no announcement yet from Apple as to cost or features so can’t comment on that except to say that there’s likely a change coming that will impact MobileMe. We’re not to speculate in the discussion groups.

Can I use Time Machine to sync my Imac with my Macbook Pro?

Is it possible to maintain my hard drives in sync using Time Machine?

No. TM is machine specific and is not ideal for syncing machines. You need syncing software or MobileMe. MobileMe has a 2 month free trial. Oh, cloning software of specific files may work as well depending on what you are syncing.
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Syncing my imac with my windows phone

Hi Everyone,
I have a new smartphone (Nokia Lumia 920). I am having some major trouble figuring our how I can sync my pictures and music. Does anyone have any ideas?

Apple has built a very comprehensive system-wide syncing framework (SyncServices) into Mac OS X which any applications can use to sync data between applications, computers and over the internet.
There are third-party tools (at additional cost) to keep various types of data between Macs in sync. It depends on exactly what data you want to sync.
An free alternative (although not so feature-rich) to MobileMe is Fruux
http://fruux.com/
which may do enough for your needs.

Is there a way to sync my iMac with my macbook?

The only answer I've found is about file sharing and backing up, which I don't really understand, so step by step instructions might be helpful. I have the same 2 users on both computers, I just want to have the same desktop & files, etc. Thank you!

there is no easy step by step or even an easy way to do it at all
https://discussions.apple.com/message/12692123#12692123
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3810309
some things are easy can be don using icloud and dropbox and te likes
but others like your home video project whch take up 400GB storage is another story

Can't sync my iPhone with my iMac using iCloud.

I have installed Lion (10.7.3) on my iMac. I have attempted to enable iCloud on my iMac, my iPhone (4S), and new iPad. I am unable to sync my iMac with my iPhone or my new iPad. I am able to sync my iPhone with my iPad and vice versa via iCloud.

you pick one mac, and stick with it.
when using multiple computers you will be asked if you want to erase because the iphone is meant to be used with one library.

HT1386 I have a brand new ipad with iOS 6.1.3 and an imac with OS 10.5.8. I cannot update my OS on this machine, but want to sync the new ipad. What can I do?

I have a brand new ipad with iOS 6.1.3 and an imac with OS 10.5.8. I cannot update my OS on this machine, but want to sync the new ipad. What can I do?

If it's an Intel Mac, you can upgrade it to Mac OS X 10.6.8.
If it's a PowerPC Mac, you need to use these instructions and/or iTunes Match to put content on the iPad.
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HT1848 I cant sync my ipad with a new imac. It only syncs the purchased music. How do I change this and change the ipad and iphone to this new computer. my devices still show my old PC. Please help

Im trying to sync my new imac with my ipads and iphones, I have alot of music on my devices and when I plug them in to the new imac i get a message that states this devise is paired to another computer (my opd PC ) When I logged into Itunes it uploaded my music the I had purchased in the past , But for the music that was burned from CDs it doesn't. I dont want to lose my music. what can I do?
Also, How do I change the computer that my devices are linked too. My old PS is broken and I will not be syncing my devices with it any longer.

how to use iTunes to sync is in the
http://www.apple.com/support/itunes
For MacBook Pro community and OS X
MacBook Pro
https://discussions.apple.com/community/notebooks/macbook_pro
https://discussions.apple.com/community/mac_os?view=discussions
http://www.apple.com/support/macbookpro
While it isn't as easy to just use a Mac iDevice as media storage as Android and Windows, you can add documents and such like Word, PDF and others manually in iTunes to have them sync as well.
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1386
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1351
They are all there searchable from Bing, Google or every Mac product has a support page.
http://www.apple.com/support/

Why do I get an error message when trying to sync my ipads with my imac

We have two ipads - version 2 I think - the last ones with the old style plug. Both are running IOS 7.1.1 Over the last week, every time I try to sync either ipad with my imac (27" - about 18 months old) which is running OSX 10.9.2 I get the following error message. "The Ipad cannot be synced. An unknown error has occurred (1723)" In every case it takes a while for the error message to appear - the sync gives every impression of rolling along just fine through the various steps - when it reaches step 5 of 6 (syncing photos) it seems to hang up, then after a while the error message shows up.
Interestingly, there are no photos on the ipad, so nothing to sync to the imac, but I discovered all of this when I tried to sync some photos in the other direction, from iphoto to one of the ipads. All I got was the pin wheel of death. I am running the most current version of iphoto too.
Any suggestions on how to fix this would be gratefully accepted.

Can you create a test Project in PrE 9 and does that work. If so, close that Project and then Open it again in PrE 9.
It could be as simple as your PrE 8 Projects just not Opening in PrE 9. There is often forward compatibility, but not always. It is usually best to finish Projects in the version, in which they were started.
Good luck,
Hunt

How do we sync contacts and calendars (ONLY) between two iCloud accounts, two iPhones and one iMac with two user accounts?

This is complex. Until today we had one iMac with two user accounts - one for me and the other for my wife. We sync'd our calendars and contacts between our two user accounts using my iCloud account, thereby keeping our schedules coordinated and our contacts information always the same between us. Also, as I had an iPhone, I sync'd my phone with my iCloud account, thereby keeping the contacts and calendars in the two user accounts on the iMac AND my iPhone sync'd. (I also sync'd other things, like Notes and Mail and Safari settings, between my iPhone and my user account on the iMac, but my wife did not want to be burdened with all my emails showing up in her email account and I wasn't interested in hers, etc., so we didn't sync anything between us other than calendars and contacts.)
We've finally bought my wife an iPhone and set up an iCloud account for her. And of course she now wants to sync several items from HER account on our iMac to HER iPhone, but I don't want them, just as she doesn't want all of my other stuff. But we still want our mutual calendars and contacts to sync to HER new iPhone, just like they already do to mine. But I can't figure out how to CHANGE her iMac user account from using MY iCloud account on the iMac to using HER new iCloud account, and then having HER iCloud account speak to MY iCloud account but share JUST our calendars and contacts.
Originally I tried a workaround by simply having her iPhone log into my iCloud account. That works great for the calendars and the contacts. But...she can't sync anything else from her iMac account to her new iPhone because she's presently "forced" to use my iCloud account. And neither of us want to sync our other things to each other's iMac accounts or iPhones. Also as we're both using my iCloud account, in things like the Find My iPhone app, the Cloud is seeking two phones labeled with my name and none with her's. So we definitely don't want this as the set-up and communications network between our devices.
We want to set up our users on the iMac to sync to our SEPARATE AND DIFFERENT iCloud accounts and then have those iCloud accounts sync calendars and contacts (ONLY) between themselves, and then push that data to our separate iPhones (or the other way, from either of our iPhones to the individual accounts on our iMac and the other person's iPhone). Does this description make sense to you? I've diagramed it nicely using Keynote, but even thiough I can draw it, I can't figure out how to set up and configure all the devices to make it work. If you would like me to send the Keynote slides (just two of them - the current and desired configurations - please send your email address to me at [email protected] and I'll be happy to forward it to you.
If anyone can help me set this up I'd be most appreciative! Thanks so much. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to all readers in this community!

BobT.
I had the same problem, and decided to look into it last night.
First of all, the solution I would like to have is for Apple to allow for selection of iCloud accounts per application, i.e. Contacts to one, Photo Stream to another. I believe this would be the most straight forward solution for the problem we are facing.
Since this is not an option I came up with a workaround. I was most interested in solving this for Contacts, so this is what I tested for. Now I have all 3 devices with the same contacts.
1) Turn off iCloud for Contacts on all devices. On the device that has the Contacts list that you would like to propagate to all others select to keep the contacts, and on the others select not to keep them.
Note that the current backups still exist on iCloud, so in case something goes wrong you can still turn the iCloud for Contacts back on to get your current Contacts back.
2) In iTunes, sync All Contacts with the phones, starting with the one with the Contacts content you chose to keep.
From this point on, the 3 devices should sync contacts with each other.
This, of course, will stop your iCloud backups of Contacts, but I don't think this is really needed. You are already storing copies of your Conacts on 3 devices, which for good parts of the day are likely not all co-located. You also potentially have Time Machine backups turned on, which would mean there is a 4th copy there as well. For the case of Contacts iCloud only complicates matter ... that is until Apple implements the solution I first wrote about.

Can not update iTunes because I have iMac with 10.5.8 . How I will sync my iphone 6.0 with an older version of iTunes on my iMac???? There is no update for the software of my iMac and no update for the iTunes.... So how can I sync????

Can not update iTunes because I have iMac with 10.5.8 . How I will sync my iphone 6.0 with an older version of iTunes on my iMac???? There is no update for the software of my iMac and no update for the iTunes.... So how can I sync????

Requirements for iPhone 5:
Syncing with iTunes on a Mac or PC requires:
Mac: OS X v10.6.8 or later
PC: Windows 7; Windows Vista; or Windows XP Home or Professional with Service Pack 3 or later
iTunes 10.7 or later
The highest version of iTunes you can install is 10.6.3 which will not sync with the iPhone 5.
Roger Wilmut1 wrote:
It's always a good idea to check the requirements before purchasing.
The person I spoke with at 1-800-MY-APPLE gave me totally different info...she said the iPhone 5 would in fact sync with the older version of iTunes and that I could restore from my previous iPhone 4 backup and also bring in my music that way. Hmmm....
I'm inclined to go by the published specs, but now I have to jump thru a bunch of hoops I wasn't expecting to.

How can i update my old 2006 iMac Intel core 2 duo running 10.6.8 to OSX Lion so that I can sync using iCloud with my newer devices? Mountain Lion is not an option for my older model and Lion is no longer available at App store.

How can i update my old 2006 iMac Intel core 2 duo running 10.6.8 to OSX Lion so that I can sync using iCloud with my newer devices? Mountain Lion is not an option for my older model and Lion is no longer available at App store.

Call Apple's online store's telesales agents: 1-800-MY-APPLE (1-800-692-7753) or Customer Service and Sales Support at 1-800-676-2775. For Lion you'll get a redemptions code via e-mail and need to DL from the Mac Apple Store (requires SL 10.6.6+).

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