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Q: Notes wont sync between Iphone and Mac on Mountain Lion

I am not sure how to get my notes to sync between my iphone and mac on Mountain Lion.  Reminds works fine but when i went to look at notes I noticed that on my iphone under iCloud i didn't have notes turned on.  So when i turned it on it said something about needing to create a @me address so i created one but now my notes are synched.  Am I  missing something?

MacBook Air, OS X Mountain Lion

Posted on Jul 25, 2012 8:41 AM

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  • by Alex Moskwa,

    Alex Moskwa Alex Moskwa Jul 26, 2012 11:05 AM in response to JSchoenberger
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    Jul 26, 2012 11:05 AM in response to JSchoenberger

    JSchoenberger wrote:

     

    For my IMAP provider, Fastmail, I had to set the prefix to INBOX, the port to 992, and check the SSL box. Then it worked.

     

    For Dreamhost my prefix is also INBOX, and the port is 143 with check in SSL box.  However, it just doesn't work under Mountain Lion.  It even prompts me to approve the certificate for my provider when I login.  However, it doesn't actually sync the Notes.  So it appears like it's trying, it's just failing.

  • by Sankeyvis,

    Sankeyvis Sankeyvis Jul 26, 2012 12:49 PM in response to Alex Moskwa
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    Jul 26, 2012 12:49 PM in response to Alex Moskwa

    That did not work for me either.

     

    But I recognized that the following line appears in  syslog, every time I'm trying to create a new note in the imap notes folder in m notes app.

     

    Jul 26 21:34:12  server Notes[768]: folderProxy addNoteToRemote returned false

     

    which might be indicating that notes is not able to put the new note to the server. This is confirmed by the fact that  the new note appears under the recovered items in the "on my mac folder" alter on.

     

     

    And additionally sometimes the following lines occurs in between (but not every time) -- strange

     

    Jul 26 21:40:13 server sandboxd[810] ([809]): mdworker(809) deny file-write-owner /Users/paddy/Library/Containers/com.apple.Notes/Data/Library/Notes/NotesV1.stor edata-wal (import fstype:hfs fsflag:1480D000 flags:240000005F diag:0 uti:com.apple.notes.externalrecord plugin:/Library/Spotlight/Notes.mdimporter - find suspect file using: sudo mdutil -t 24010898)

    Jul 26 21:40:13 server kernel[0]: Sandbox: sandboxd(810) deny mach-lookup com.apple.coresymbolicationd

    Jul 26 21:40:13 server sandboxd[810] ([809]): mdworker(809) deny file-write-owner /Users/paddy/Library/Containers/com.apple.Notes/Data/Library/Notes/NotesV1.stor edata-shm (import fstype:hfs fsflag:1480D000 flags:240000005F diag:0 uti:com.apple.notes.externalrecord plugin:/Library/Spotlight/Notes.mdimporter - find suspect file using: sudo mdutil -t 24010898)

  • by Alex Moskwa,

    Alex Moskwa Alex Moskwa Jul 26, 2012 1:24 PM in response to Sankeyvis
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    Jul 26, 2012 1:24 PM in response to Sankeyvis

    I haven't notice dthe addNoteToRemote line on mine.  I just noticed the mdimporter error.  mdimporters are supposed to be for Spotlight indexing so I wouldn't think it would affect Notes ability to propogate.  However, for me it does occur every time I open Notes or try to do any sort of add operation.  And it's also weird that it's directly looking for a Notes.mdimporter that doesn't exist.  Hence I wondered if the fails were related in that if it can't index it decides it can't update the Note as well, even though you'd think it should report but generally ignore a Spotlight indexing error when it comes to actually syncing the Notes to IMAP.

  • by Jace Cavacini,

    Jace Cavacini Jace Cavacini Jul 26, 2012 5:24 PM in response to fullme
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    Jul 26, 2012 5:24 PM in response to fullme

    i am also unable to access the IMAP Notes on Mountain Lion's Notes application. If i create stuff in the IMAP category on the Notes application on the Mac, it doesn't show on my iPhone either. After a while of fiddling around, i get a pile of "recovered items" on the "On My Mac" section. These are all the things that have failed to work on the IMAP communication and eventually the Notes application resurrects it as a failsafe (?). i don't know what the problem is. i appear to have all settings correct. It's just Apple's screw up again. They seem to almost never get the **** IMAP stuff right. Mail in Leopart was punked. iPhone was fine. Then the reverse happened. Then the reverse again. Now Mail is fine on both, but the Notes app is punked. This is one of the primary reasons i PAID for this "upgrade." i want these features to WORK. Guess i'm paying to beta test again.

  • by Jace Cavacini,

    Jace Cavacini Jace Cavacini Jul 26, 2012 5:29 PM in response to Jace Cavacini
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    Jul 26, 2012 5:29 PM in response to Jace Cavacini

    Anyone here also finding that the folders list is hidden when you close and reopen when Notes is full screen? Every time i close and reopen it, i have to choose "Hide Folder List" from the View menu (it's not checked). This is clearly another bug. A really SIMPLE THING TO TEST, Apple! i found it the first time i restarted the application.

  • by Jace Cavacini,

    Jace Cavacini Jace Cavacini Jul 26, 2012 6:19 PM in response to Alex Moskwa
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    Jul 26, 2012 6:19 PM in response to Alex Moskwa

    Same problem. Same errors in Console.

     

    As a related note, if i look at my IMAP account through its webmail interface, the Notes are present on the server. The iPhone end is fine. It's the Mountain Lion side that's punked.

  • by ph776,

    ph776 ph776 Jul 26, 2012 6:21 PM in response to sildani
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    Jul 26, 2012 6:21 PM in response to sildani

    Both my Notes and Reminders that are listed on my iphone as "On My Mac" do not show up on my reminders and notes app after upgrading to ML.  Before ML they were there and sync'd automatically.  Is there a fix for this?

  • by T Conover,

    T Conover T Conover Jul 26, 2012 6:49 PM in response to JSchoenberger
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    Jul 26, 2012 6:49 PM in response to JSchoenberger

    Thanks so much for posting this. Pure luck that I saw it -- I happen to use Fastmail, too, and this appears to have fixed my syncing problem, as well. At the very least, all the old notes have finally synced up. Some of the new ones I created in the past hour have synced, but not all of them yet.

     

    Note to others: the settings must be changed both on the iPhone (Settings > Mail, Contacts, Calendars > fastmail > account > Advanced > Incoming Settings) and on the Mac (System Preferences > Mail, Contacts & Calendars > fastmail > Advanced).

     

    FWIW, this suggests to me that a lot of users' problems with Mountain Lion Notes syncing are specific to their IMAP provider. The safest default account for new Notes would appear to be iCloud.

     

    (btw, how did you know to try changing the port to 992?)

  • by Jace Cavacini,

    Jace Cavacini Jace Cavacini Jul 26, 2012 9:17 PM in response to T Conover
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    Jul 26, 2012 9:17 PM in response to T Conover

    992 is a standard port used for SSL. My host actually is one digit off, which i get from their info. Still didn't solve the problem, though.

  • by findler,

    findler findler Jul 27, 2012 5:35 AM in response to Jace Cavacini
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    Jul 27, 2012 5:35 AM in response to Jace Cavacini

    Fastmail uses port 992 as a workaround for broken IMAP clients.

     

    Fastmail Support

     

    Alternate namespace: Some IMAP software (e. g. Blackberry BIS, Apple Mail) has been known to have problems with the "INBOX" root folder path that FastMail.FM uses. You can work around that by changing to the "alternate namespace" ports. Change 993 -> 992 and leave the Root folder/path blank instead.

    Source: https://www.fastmail.fm/help/remote_email_access_server_names_and_ports.html?MLS =LN-*&UDm=131

  • by Miata2000,

    Miata2000 Miata2000 Jul 27, 2012 10:10 AM in response to sildani
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    Jul 27, 2012 10:10 AM in response to sildani

    I'm having the same problem. I can't live without my old notes. Is there anyway to import these into Notes?

     

    If I can't resolve this today I'll have no choice but to go back to Snow Leopard.

  • by sildani,

    sildani sildani Jul 27, 2012 1:30 PM in response to fullme
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    Jul 27, 2012 1:30 PM in response to fullme

    Update:

     

    By signing out of iCloud and disabling notes in Google, I was finally able to get Notes to show "On My Mac" category, albeit empty. I created one test note:

     

    http://imgur.com/fELj3

     

    I then signed back into iCloud and renabled Google notes. Now all three show up!

     

    http://imgur.com/bPFwR

     

    But my notes from my iPhone are still missing from the Mac.

     

    I synced my iPhone via iTunes at this point to see if I can then see my iPhone notes on my Mac (or vice-versa, see the new "On My Mac" note I created in Mountain Lion on my iPhone) but it didn't work.

  • by sildani,

    sildani sildani Jul 27, 2012 1:44 PM in response to sildani
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    Jul 27, 2012 1:44 PM in response to sildani

    When I enabled iCloud again, Notes actually prompted me: "You have notes on your Mac, would you like to move them to the iCloud?"

     

    I would love to buy that feature on my iPhone. I'd be all set!!!

     

    Perhaps a future iOS build.

  • by Miata2000,

    Miata2000 Miata2000 Jul 27, 2012 2:36 PM in response to sildani
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    Jul 27, 2012 2:36 PM in response to sildani

    I'm only syncing Mail to iCloud -- not notes, so I'm really curious why my notes from Snow Leopard Mail simply disappeared when I upgraded to Mountain Lion. I temporaily turned on notes syncing and that didn't do anything either.

  • by sildani,

    sildani sildani Jul 28, 2012 5:57 AM in response to Miata2000
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    Jul 28, 2012 5:57 AM in response to Miata2000

    Miata2000 wrote:

     

    I'm only syncing Mail to iCloud -- not notes, so I'm really curious why my notes from Snow Leopard Mail simply disappeared when I upgraded to Mountain Lion. I temporaily turned on notes syncing and that didn't do anything either.

     

    Yeah, there's an issue here for sure. Notes not setup on a cloud service have gone away for some users (you and I included). Setting up cloud services post-ML install does nothing.

     

    I'm going to sync my phone against a Lion install on another Mac to move my notes from hard drive to "cloud" that way. For the time being, ML doesn't have a way to do it (that anyone's discovered).

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