Calendar sync via iTunes and USB does not work after Mountain Lion Upgrade

Me too, Stein! I think they are supposed to sync from iCloud, but that has never worked for me either, and I have been running 10.8 for several months. Meaning my calendars are way obsolete. A further irritation is that I can't disable alerts, all I can do is dismiss them from the screen. Guess its time for a bug report.

I can't sync Calender in my MBP wth my iPhone anymore neither via iCloud nor iTunes (USB & WiFi) after upgraded to ML.

Installed ML on Sunday and found the same problem. Spent Monday & Tuesday mornings at the local Boise Apple store.

Conclusions of the Geniuses:

1.Mountain Lion removes the option to sync Notes via USB/iTunes; iCloud is the only known way to sync Notes. (Not an acceptable option to me.)

2. ML still allows Calendar & Contacts sync via USB/iTunes (setup same as Lion: start iTunes: connect iPhone/iPod touch; select iPhone/iPod touch on the left side of the iTunes page; click on the "Info" tab and select Sync Contacts and Sync Calendars)

Backed up all my data and went back to the Apple store where they reinstalled Lion. Pity because breaking Notes out of the Mail app and adding Reminders to OS X (also only iCloud syncable) are both good moves.

Let's hope Apple is reading these and noting the requests to restore the local sync feature for Notes.

hi,

i stumbled about the same thing upgrading to ML and i couldn' believe it!

Local syncing of Reminders and Notes is not possible any more and forcing (or tempting) users to store very private data on a remote server is simply iniquitous. I think Apple is making a big mistake here. All questions related to Cloud services are still open in regards of reliability and security. I admit, that Apple has to be a forerunner but they ruin their image by this. Understand me right, if someone want's it, fine, but this should always be optional!

Definitely i will not follow Apple this way (1984 seems to come true 1012).

q

Now my problem!

(sorry, hit the wrong button on my iPad, couldn't edit my previous answer so put it again in)

hi,

i stumbled about the same thing after upgrading to ML and i couldn' believe it!

Local syncing of Reminders and Notes is not possible any more and forcing (or tempting) users to store very private data on a remote server is simply iniquitous. I think Apple is making a big mistake here. All questions related to these cloud services are still open in regards of reliability and security. I admit, that Apple has to be a forerunner but they ruin their reputation by this. Understand me right, if someone want's it, fine, but this should always be optional!

Definitely i will not follow Apple this way (1984 seems to come true 1012!?).

Now my problem!

How can i downgrade to Lion? I even would prefer to set up a clean system.

Unfortunately i don't have suitable backups on my timemachine.

I guess it is not possible to run the old Mail and iCal under ML!?

Will the new database of Contacts and Calendar of ML be useable under Lion?

Thanks for your answer?

Peter

PS.: I am really puzzled, that so few are aware and are accepting where Apple is going.

I (i am also a senior Apple follower since 1984) always thought they are "thinking different"!

Here's how I got back to Lion from ML - I too did not have a Time Machine backup

1. Backed up Calendar and Contacts (file/export) and copied to USB HDD

2. Copied the text of all my Notes into one Word file ad then to HDD

3. Did nothing with Reminders as this function is not in Lion

In retrospect, I probably did not need to do any of this as I had Cal, Contacts & Notes on my iPod touch and had not syc'd since installing ML

4. Manually copied all my docs, pictures and the total iTunes directory to USB HDD

5. Took my MacPro to the local Apple store - where I'd been the previous day to find out if I had misunderstood ML .. I hadn't - and the great folks there re-installed Lion.

6. Re-install MacOffice and copy over docs

7. Re-do all the basic set up stuff ... screen save, touchpad ...

8. Re-install Calendar & Contacts data (file/import) then laboriously created new set of Notes from the Word file. This took forever.

9. Copy backed-up iTunes diectory to the Mac, overwriting exisiting (essentially empty) directory put there by new Lion install. Set up iTunes to sync the way I want with iPod touch

Hey presto ! All done, system normal. All in all Apple wasted well over 12 hours of my precious time on this deal so I'm pretty ticked. All kudos, however, to the great support from the local Apple store - those poor guys were wandering around scratching there heads with an "I can't believe the Cupertino bozos pulled this stunt" look on their faces.

Total agreement about iCloud. See Woz's statement on this just a oouple days ago - he is NOT a fan.

Is there also a way to backup Mail?

I am afraid of loosing all my emails!

Open the Mail app, click on Help and search for "export mailbox". You'll get a Help screen with directions on how to backup your mail.

I have not personally used this function (I don't use Mail, I use Gmail in web browser) but it looks straightforward - essentially the same as the export function in Calendar and Contacts.

This is outrageous. I will NOT be forced to use iCloud, and consider this grounds to start considering abandoning Apple and OSX...and this is after decades of evangelim and being responsible for puchasing hundreds of Apple computers over the years.

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SO - it does appear syncing is possible without iCloud...but only via IMAP email accounts, meaning I need to rebuild my email account to keep functionality I am accsutomed to - which also has the undesireable effect of putting my information on a web server anyway - although not Apple's at least.

Still utter BS...how is there no direct sync to Notes.app via USB or Wifi????

Message was edited by: shinsundo