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Snow Leopard, iOS 5 and iCloud?

I am not clear whether I can (or should) migrate to iOS5 and iCloud yet.

I am still using Snow Leopard on my various machines (am not ready to migrate to Lion yet, still using Eudora and have not found a replacement) and will be doing so for another 6 months or so I suspect. I have an iPad and iPhone and have not yet migrated to iOS 5. I also have a MobileMe account and use it to sync calendars, contacts and notes.

My question is should I upgrade to iOS 5? If I do, will iOS 5 work with MobileMe? If the answer is no and I need to migrate to iCloud, will Snow Leopard work with iCloud. I am only concerned with syncing my calendar, contacts and notes between my iPhone, iPad and machines with Snow Leopard.

Thanks in advance.

Mac OS X (10.6.8), G4, G5 Towers, G3, G4 and Intel PBs, Time Capsule, Apple TV, iPh

Posted on Oct 12, 2011 1:55 PM

18 replies

Nov 15, 2011 11:39 AM in response to Antony-D-Emanuele

Antony D'Emanuele wrote:

Also, given that Lion has been released it is unlikely that Apple will invest the resource for iCloud in 10.6.9 as they will want users to migrate, but yo unever know...

They do want users to migrate, but getting people to adopt iCloud may be a higher priority (just like support for iTunes/iPhone sync goes WAY back). And there are plenty of machines out there that can't even run 10.7 that are still in use.

Nov 28, 2011 10:52 AM in response to Mmggolfer

Rosetta will not run on Lion, hence versions of Quicken 2007 and earlier are toast.

In preparation to upgrade to Lion (just downloaded have not installed yet) I searched and found this link:

http://www.tuaw.com/2011/07/09/quicken-wont-run-on-lion-heres-10-mac-apps-to-cur e-those-blue/

You must buy Quicken Essentials for Mac and transfer your Quicken data to that version.

You MUST convert all your Quicken files to this version BEFORE upgrading to Lion.

I purchased this version and after a few bumps in the process found success in the transfer of the data.

One of the bumps was that I was using version R2 which was not the latest version of Quicken 2007.

You must be running version R3 if running 2007 before running Quicken's utility for converting data to Essentials.

I had very good experience with Quicken support who helped me see what was wrong.

Now we will wait to see how it runs on Lion OS.

Cerdo12

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Jan 20, 2012 3:38 PM in response to mstrings

My biggest bugbear with this is, I have an old Mac Mini which I use little. Lion will not run on it, so I appear to be able to sync little. I'm running Lion latest on this one. May be small potatoes in the greater scheme of things?

Snow Leopard, iOS 5 and iCloud?