Syncing safari tabs across multiple macs

I have a Mac Mini as my primary mac and a MBA as my "leisure" Mac. I thought with syncing that all my Safari tabs would be the same in both, like is done well with Mail, Contacts, and Calendar. However, I've just changed my Mini Safari tabs, and I went to my MBA expecting to see the same framework, and it has not updated. What do I need to do to sync across multiple macs?

The tabs are not synced, just the bookmarks. Tabs are not data or content, just a window frame for different URLs.

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OS X Lion: How to use Migration Assistant to transfer files from another Mac
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Wraithe wrote:
Quoting myself: +"The end result was that a few of our web service calls started failing on the unchanged WARs"+
My original question pertaining to ensuring that the source code for the end user model classes remained consistent. You can't if the interface contains Java classes that are changed. You immediately have to deploy updated JAR files with the new code to all the clients that need it.
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- 1 iMac (dome)
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I'm using all of them (sounds weird, eh?) and I want to be able to have them synced automatically. One update on my iPhone reflects the other Address books.
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Agreed, $99 a year seems like a bit much if that's all you want to do.
If you trust web-based free email services like Gmail, you can export your Address Book(s) and those on other platforms and manage it from there.
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The tabs are not synced, just the bookmarks. Tabs are not data or content, just a window frame for different URLs.

How to sync Safari bookmarks between various Macs?

I own a desktop iMAC and a Mac Book Pro, but most of my work is done in the iMAC, However, I'd like to sync my Safari bookmarks in my MBP in order to have the same bookmarks in it too.
Being a mobileme subscriber, I have set it up in the iMAC and the MBP to sync the Favorites too. But it doesn't seem to work as the bookmarks in my MBP are completely different from those which I'm after, i.e. the ones in my iMAC.
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On the iPad I can see tabs for my iMac
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I've just upgraded to Mavericks to see if that would help, but it's still the same.
I've been through the troubleshooting and turned off the safari settings for the devices and restarted them but still no joy.
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Hi Angela,
Thanks for visiting Apple Support Communities.
If your iCloud Tabs are not consistent between your Mac and your devices, I recommend the troubleshooting steps in this article:
iCloud: Using and troubleshooting iCloud Tabs
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht5372
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Here's the scenario: we have 10 or so macs in our office and 20 employees, many of whom are part time and need to share workstations. Currently, each user is assigned an iMac and he or she works there. What I would like is that a user is set up on our Mac mini server and he or she would have the same environment on any Mac.
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• Accept the reality that if anything goes wrong, your whole office does not work
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So I have 2 Macs, and 3 email accounts (GMail, GoDaddy, and my university)...and I have all accounts set up on both machines, but I only receive email on one of them...if both are open, they randomly go to one, and if only one is open, it goes to the open one. How can I set it up so that all emails go to BOTH computers?
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Scott,
Looking for some support/advice on a multiple-computers/same account issue.
One group that I do some IT for have about 12 staff members, each armed with a laptop (Mac of course). Their mail accounts are set up as POP (as recommended by our hosting company ((paetec)) due to the volume of messages). Everyone likes POP.
There are three administrative assistants at the main office who monitor/check the POP accounts for the staff who are off-site with laptops. So "joe" is checking/sending e-mail on the road from his MacBook, and his assistant is also checking/saving "Joe's" mail back at the office. The staff want it set up this way and depend on this double checking system (no sales/customer inquiry is ever missed)
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So, let's say the admin staff have about 10 to 12 accounts on their iMacs, constantly fetching the same mail the POP users may or may not have read yet.
A big problem I have is a bulk of junk/spam/old messages that are piling up on the server. I don't know why their are so many (in the GBs), because I try to keep everyone's Mailbox Advanced settings the same (download to the local machine, remove from server, after so long). But it is not working.
The messages on the server pile up and I don't know why. Without having everyone's laptops in front of me, or checking all their settings through Remote Desktop, I'm not sure where the problem is?
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I have two Macs – an old MBPro and a newer iMac. The laptop cannot run Mountain Lion as it's too old; both devices now run Lion. Now I want to solve document sharing issues so I don't have to manually manage synchonization.
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