iCloud for Snow Leopard

I don't keep financial info on a laptop, because I take it when I travel. And Intuit SAYS a lot of things they don't follow through on. I've tried some other personal finance software, but this bookkeeper doesn't really like any of them. It pains me to write it, but Quicken has the best product. Worse comes to worst, I'll just spend the money to put Quicken on my virtual machine running Win7. I don't want to. Because if i need to access it, it takes me so much longer to get into it, because I have to launch VMWare, then wait for Windows to launch, then wait for Quicken to launch. As opposed to just launching Quicken. I have my biz books running on the virtual machine, but I'd prefer not to run Quicken there.

I don't keep financial info on my laptop either, that is all on my MacPro. I use third party Filemaker apps for finances and those are all up to date. I had to use other programs on my laptop in Snow Leopard. However, I can use my external hard drive to boot up either computer for the older programs I need to use, luckily it isn't too often. However, I have many friends who do use Quicken and have at least one computer still on Snow Leopard, so I understand your frustration.

Yeah, frustrating, especially with MobileMe about to sunset. If Intuit doesn't get its act together soon, I will either be without an alternative to MobileMe to sync my calendar and contacts on my devices, or I will be without a bookkeeping program.

June is still a while away. A lot can change in a few months. People should go rattle Intuit's chain, very few programmers are lagging this far behind and if they are they may not be serious in supporting Mac from now on. There are other bookkeeping programs, but change is hard, though not impossible.

I've tried several of them, my being a bookkeeper and all. Even iBank and MoneyDance. Then again, there's a difference between bookkeeping and, say, balancing a checkbook. I have certain expectations for my software. I must say I love the PC version of Quickbooks WAY better than the Mac version. Like night and day. People have been rattling Intuit's chain for *years*. I think as Apple sells more and more and more computers, Intuit is realizing how many people it has really ticked off.

Oh, very interesting, I don't do high level bookkeeping so what I use is fine for me. My husband is an accountant for a huge corporation. He just got a Mac Mini for his home computer to replace his Dell. I got him Parallels and he put Windows 7 on the Mini. He will only use Windows for personal and work related bookkeeping (think he is using QuickBooks), but the Mac for pictures, iTunes, Safari. He is loving the Mac so far, it runs Windows so much better and faster than his Dell, so he has the best of both worlds. I got Parallels on sale and home version Windows isn't too pricy. May be the only thing to be done. Hubby wouldn't ever consider doing his own books on a Mac version of the Intuit programs, it had to be Windows so that is why I went ahead and got Parallels. I use it too, but only to look at the websites I create in a Windows environment.

I used Parallels for many years, and just started using VMWare. Cheaper, and I think it runs faster than Parallels. You can try the demo out.

I almost bought VMware rather than upgrade to Parallels 7, but read several reviews that gave Parallels a better rating. Then I was able (through a bundle) to get Parallels 7 and several other programs I was wanting for less than the cost of the parallels upgrade. It works great on the latest MacMini and quite well on my 2007 MacBook Pro (don't allow anything remotely Windows to pollute my lovely Mac Pro)

Its not really support for icloud, but you can successfully sync icloud calendar to ical in snow leopard.

http://skangerland.blogspot.com/2011/10/how-to-get-ical-with-icloud-working-in.h tml

It's working for me syncing both ways between iphone iOS 5.1 and OSX 10.6.8 / iCal 4.0.4

Thanks for that Joe, I am new here and have been trying to sync iCal on Snow Leopard with iCloud. It works a treat.

The above solution worked for me too, for iCal, without any real issues so far.

Ridiculous that Apple didn't just make that happen for Snow Leopard users by default since it would have been the simplest bit of programming ever - or even just give people the information they needed to do it themselves without having to trawl the web to find it.

As for contacts, the various solutions posted on the forums and the web didnt work for me and seemed like a lot of hassle to go through have contacts synced via Apple.

The easiest fix is to export all your contacts, then import them into something like google (I already had a gmail account), and then just use google to sync your contacts instead if icloud (via the sync with Google button in the address book settings). Its a bit sluggish to update, but it works well. You can then point your iphone, and other iOS devices to use google for contacts too.

Again, ludicrous that Apple didnt just sort this out, especially for loyal MobileMe paid subscribers like myself - but it's their loss - look what happened in my case - I switched to Google. And since I've done that I might as well switch my Calendar to google as well. And then I might as well just use gmail as my primary email instead of using my mobileme. And thus, their ridiculous policy over icloud has lost them a customer, and from reading these forums, I'm sure many others.

Not the smartest business decisoin, but the Apple business is now built on selling electronic gadgets to new users, not looking after long-term customers. They seem to be doing well at it so good luck to them, but my bet is slowly people will creep away to other platforms, it just depends if they can keep growing new customers at a faster rate - which looks likely for the forseeable future.