Traveling with my MacBook Pro & moving files
I have a desktop Mac Pro and a MacBook Pro. I want to travel with my MacBook and take some files with me. Not a strange request...right? But having trouble finding how to move some apple files and which files to move.
Specifically I want to move:
Address Book
Ical
Mail
When I return I will want to move these files back to my desktop. When I used Entourage, I only needed to move the entourage database. easy.
Is there an easy way to move the associated files for Address Book, Ical &
Mail. or do I i have to hunt though all the Library files and prefs??
Advise??
Also do both MacPro and MacBook Pro have to be on the same OS? (currently one is Leo, one is Tiger)
ok, if you do not need to access your mail, contacts, ical over the net and both your macs are on a local network at home, then you may want to look at:
http://www.address-o-matic.com/ for syncing your address book between both macs when at home on the same local network for example
http://www.busymac.com for the busysync product for syncing your ical between both macs at home on the same local network - although busymac has just released an upgrade which will allow you to sync over the web
as for your email, if your isp allows for an imap account, then you are set, just set up the imap account in mail on both macs and changes on one mac's mail will appear on the other.
the above is not an integrated solution you will note, and will not allow you to view your data online.
.mac will offer you an integrated solution and way much more than syncing of ical, contacts, and mail rules and signatures - note that there is no syncing of emails per se, a .mac account being imap, again changes on one mac's mail will show up on the other. you will also be able to sync bookmarks, access contacts, bookmarks and email online, publish photo albums and videos to the net and share them with friends, sync your entire preferences between both macs, using backups, and idisk. you may want to look at this link to review all the features for .mac: http://www.apple.com/dotmac/
then again .mac may not be what you are looking for, and you may want to focus on individual solutions as outlined above for contacts and calendars.... your choice.
hope this helps
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