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How can I get iCloud to sync between iOS 6.1.3, OSX 10.6.8 and OSX 10.8.3?

I am running both OSX 10.6.8 and OSX 10.8.3 on my iMac with iOS 6.1.3 on my iPod Touch.

Everything is checked ON in the iCloud settings where those are available, in iOS, OSX 10.8 and in iCloud.com on my OSX 10.6.8 system.

I either get no synchronisation, or a duplication of events. Apple Store Events which need to be clumsily downloaded from the website, double clicked on and hopefully added to Calendar, only randomly appear and rarely get announced. I can't see a pattern to anything.

It currently won't sync between iCloud.com and Address Book, Calendar etc on the Mac let alone with iDevices (my wife has an iPad as well), despite partially syncing previously.

It is erratic, obscure and totally unreliable as well as being a huge waste of my time.

If I follow the iTunes instructions as well as the iCloud.com instructions generally nothing happens.

In the Advanced pane of iCloud.com settings, I have selected the “In-app notifications” checkbox, and Saved. Doesn't work. Then I unselected and saved and closed iCloud.com. Then checked it all over again, still doesn't work.

According to the settings it says it is sharing with the iPod Touch, but nothing happens.

Previously a few events appeared belatedly at some later time, often after the event they were supposed to announce. Currently nothing is syncing.

Most frustratingly I can't sync my Address Book/Contacts so have to manually include all the contact info in all my individual devices and systems.

Has anybody got a surefire method of making the sync happen?

iMac, OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.3)

Posted on Apr 10, 2013 3:07 AM

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Csound1

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Apr 11, 2013 6:05 AM in response to PeterBreis0807

PeterBreis0807 wrote:

Csound1 wrote:

PeterBreis0807 wrote:

The calendar events are missing from the iPad Touch. All calendars is all there is.

The events are present in Address Book (SL) which has 5 calendars and 2 subscriptions. All listed below.

My iPod Touch shows: 5 calendars, the 4 below + "Calendar".

iCloud shows: 4 (Home, Work, 2 Workshops) appear in iCloud. But not "Calendar".

Other shows: Birthdays.

Peter

On the face of it the Calendar called Calendar is local to the iPod and is not on iCloud.

It is also in iCal in SL. How would it make the leap and not go via iCloud?

iTunes

PeterBreis0807 Author

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Apr 11, 2013 12:02 PM in response to Csound1

The only options I can see in iTunes in SL are under:

Devices > Summary > Backups > Automatically/Manually

Neither of which changes my Contacts/Calendars on the iPod Touch

Peter

Csound1

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Apr 11, 2013 12:09 PM in response to PeterBreis0807

PeterBreis0807 wrote:

The only options I can see in iTunes in SL are under:

Devices > Summary > Backups > Automatically/Manually

Neither of which changes my Contacts/Calendars on the iPod Touch

Peter

That is correct, SL has no iCloud functionality, and iTunes is not iCloud, all is normal as far as that goes (using SL) Only iCloud mail has support on SL (it's just a regular Imap account, same as Mobile Me) Contacts and Calendars are Dav accounts and require clients, SL has no clients for iCloud.

But, if you connect your iPod to iTunes the option exists to sync data from your Mac to the iPod (contacts, calendars etc) if you check that option your calendars and contacts will sync with your iPod, but this is nothing to do with iCloud, and will mess up if you are also using iCloud as a data path.

You did connect your iPod using a cabe to iTunes did you not?

PeterBreis0807 Author

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Apr 11, 2013 2:02 PM in response to Csound1

Yes.

But the only options for syncing are those I stated above, plus the incorrect "iCloud syncing" that I supplied the screen shot for.

The question arises how is it syncing and yet not syncing?

This is just one long ongoing mess IMHO and typical of Apple in recent years. Far from the myth of symplicity.

Peter

Apr 11, 2013 3:03 PM in response to PeterBreis0807

You've obviously managed to get the iTunes syncing running, even if you're not aware of it; iTunes syncing and iCloud 'syncing' (which isn't actually syncing but reading the data from the server) don't mix and the latter isn't available to you on Snow Leopard anyway.

I don't hold any brief for Apple, and I have my own reserverations about iCloud: but for most people it does 'just work' and you are in the position of complaining that it doesn't work on a setup that it wasn't designed to in the first place.

Csound1

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Apr 12, 2013 5:57 AM in response to PeterBreis0807

PeterBreis0807 wrote:

Yes.

But the only options for syncing are those I stated above, plus the incorrect "iCloud syncing" that I supplied the screen shot for.

The question arises how is it syncing and yet not syncing?

This is just one long ongoing mess IMHO and typical of Apple in recent years. Far from the myth of symplicity.

Peter

Try using iCloud on a supported platform, Snow Leopard is not supported.

Punctum

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Apr 12, 2013 8:39 AM in response to PeterBreis0807

Check out this free sync service:

https://fruux.com/

For many months it has provided me with robust contacts and calendar syncing between computers running OS X 10.6, 10.7 and 10.8, and devices running iOS 5 and iOS 6. Platform-specific setup instructions are provided, and are clear and intuitive.

How can I get iCloud to sync between iOS 6.1.3, OSX 10.6.8 and OSX 10.8.3?