Using iPhone's "Calendar" on two (2) different Mac's

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Using iPhone's "Calendar" on two (2) different Mac's

Hi there
Have just received a new iMac as my workstation (10.5.8), at home I use a MacBook Pro(10.5.8) I
would like to 'sync' both machines to me iPhone's Calendar, could someone please explain to me how
to do this without erasing the contend on my iPhone???? Basically I like to be able to add items to my iMac at work sync this and add items at home to my MacBook and also sync this to my iPhone's Calendar.

Thank you for your help

Ingolf in Alice Springs

MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.5.8), MacBook Pro 10.4.10

Posted on Sep 12, 2009 11:37 PM

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Answer 1

Jo Ehm

Level 1

14 points

Sep 17, 2009 2:34 AM in response to Ingolf Eigenwillig

The best waay would be to set up a MobileMe account to keep your Macs and iPhone in sync. However, if you don't want to pay for MobileMe you can use your iPhone a syncing device.

First, you must set your iTunes on both Macs to the same iTunes Library ID. See http://www.moviesmac.com/tutorial/sync-iphone-with-multiple-macs.html for details.

Now, each time when you sync to the second computer, you will get a message like this:

+The information on the iPhone is synced with another user account. Do you want to sync this iPhone with the information from this user account instead?+

+“Merge Info” merges the information on this iPhone with the information from this user account.+

+“Replace Info” replaces the information on this iPhone with the information from this user account.+

Choose "Merge Info" here. But be careful: it's a merge, not a sync. This works fine for new events in your calender or if you have changed some details. If you have deleted or moved an event on one system and the old event is still present on the other system, it will be on both devices after the merge. Conflicts might also appear if you change the main title of an event.

So MobileMe is the better way 🙂

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Answer 2

nick101

Level 5

5,150 points

Sep 17, 2009 3:02 AM in response to Ingolf Eigenwillig

MobileMe works well (as the other reply suggests), but you could look at Busysync ( http://www.busymac.com/busysync/index.html).

It syncs your Mac iCal to Google Calendars (which are free), and you could run it on both Macs. There's a trial version (as there is with MobileMe).

So both options work. MM is probably easier to set up.

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