How to locally sync an iPhone with OS X Mavericks? iCloud is NOT an option.

Diederik, het is niet nodig je "bot" te gedragen, dat doe je ook niet in B&B. Dit forum is in eerste instantie bedoeld om mensen met problemen te helpen, niet om meningen en standpunten te monopoliseren.

Ik mis de locale backup ook (vooral omdat ik vaak op plaatsen ben waar geen internet verbinding is), maar alle leveranciers hebben dezelfde stap gemaakt. Vergelijk Google e.a.. Ik ondersteun de petitie, maar ik ondersteun niet dat anderen geen andere mening mogen hebben dan de jouwe.

Lex

"Administrators" should pay attention to users comments and try to calm the discussion instead of amplify this troll thread with useless interventions, often ironic, taking some users for idiots.

Everyone here has enjoyed the Apple's ecosystem and everyone has the right to express a problem that he may have with Apple's hardware or with Apple's softwares.

The problem raised is a real problem for some users using Apple's devices, especially in a professional setting. This is a serious regression of usability. In this case Apple's ecosystem can becoming meaningless.

mixib wrote:

"Administrators" should pay attention to users comments and try to calm the discussion instead of amplify this troll thread with useless interventions, often ironic, taking some users for idiots.

There are not enough Hosts to patrol the forums. Users (Level 2 and above) can report posts for violations of the TOU. The Hosts will then evaluate them and make a decision. Beyond that, the Hosts do not tend to influence the tone or directions of threads. Irony is not a TOU violation.

Dear Lex,

I understand your message. I merely try to point out that there is no real contribution to the heartfelt concerns of many by the people that are still hammering on the status quo. I don't understand their drive to keep telling everybody here that there is no solution and that we shouldn't be concerned. It would be the civil thing to do to let us be. That's the only point of my remarks. But I requested that a couple of pages back already. Of course everybody is entitled to their opinion, but repetition doesn't make them more helpful.

I hope you don't mind me sticking to English for all our non Dutch speaking contributors to this post. :-)

The "heartfelt concerns" of those rambling on here about this "problem" are irrelevant.

This is a technical support forum. The question has been answered over and over again. Whining about how you "feel" about the change is pointless.

If you have 'concerns', then tell Apple instead of continuing to spew this nonsense in the forums.

Diederik, I don't mind,

your concern is the reason why I said it in our language.

Lex

The problem is that while many of us have told Apple through the channels approved by you and others, there is no sense that anyone in the company is listening. For those of us that use Apple devices in a business context and need to conform to non US data protection laws (and where would Apple be if it only made and sold stuff in the US), this 'upgrade' comes close to bricking their products as business tools.

One final point not solely addressed to you: I do not understand why people on fora feel it is acceptable to be rude, aggressive and snide in a manner most of them would never consider in a face to face conversation, however good their medical insurance. Shouting in people's faces is not the best way to be heard.

Less heat and more light please.

fred242 wrote:

The problem is that while many of us have told Apple through the channels approved by you and others, there is no sense that anyone in the company is listening.

No, the problem is that the people whining about the issue here can't seem to get it through their heads that Apple does not participate in these forums.

Sometimes there is no way to get a point across other than through sheer brute force.

Then why did they take my post off?

Because you transgressed the terms of use (that you previously agreed to)

If this helps this is what I have done now, having put together advice and hints from others with a little of my own knowledge.

Export each Calendar to a .ics file.

Install OS X Server on Macbbook Pro.

Set up a user on the server called syncuser with associated password.

Limited this user to access only Calendar and Contact services.

In Calendar app on Macbook connect to Calendar service via Preferences>Accounts.

In the left hand pane of Calendar there will now be an OS X Server section. Create a calendar to match each of your 'ON My Mac' calendars and import the relevant .ics file into each.

On the iPhone in settings>mail,contacts,calendars create a calendars account and enter the syncuser details. There should now be duplicate events if you elected to keep the original data on the iPhone. At the bottom of the screen there are now 3 links:- Today Calendars Inbox. I don't remember theses being there before.

If you navigate to a date other than today, touching Today takes you straight back to today.

Touching Calendars lets you choose which calendars to use, turn off the display of those 'From My PC' and you will be left with only the events synchronised from your mac.

Now in Contacts>Preferences>Accounts on the Mac create a contacts account using syncuser credentials again.

In the left hand pane of Contacts there will be an 'All OS X Server' section. The instructions I found (Ithink they were pre-Mavericks) said select all contacts in 'All On My Mac' and drag them to 'All on OS X Server' THIS DOES NOT WORK. Iinstead, go back to Contacts>Preferences>Accounts and create another contacts account just like before. This will create an 'All servername.home' section in the left pane and you CAN drag contacts to this.

I think the first one logs in to the server and exposes the services available and the second one connects to the contacts service.

Finally, back to the iPhone in settings>mail,contacts,calendars create a contacts account, you can keep the local data again, and in Contacts>Groups turn off 'All on My Phone'.

That's it.

A suggestion for those who live away from access to internet services or who travel a lot, obtain a small wifi router and set up access to it from each of your devices, I would also limit access to it to the MAC address of each of your devices. You should now be able to sync locally over wifi wherever you are, you don't need to connect it to broadband. It's a pain having to carry another piece of kit rather than a cable but at least they are small and if I am correct that this would work it solves the problem of local sync.

Good Luck

Chris.

Should have been: "How come they took my post off?"

They only did that because someone or something at Apple is reading these threads.

This thread is dedicated to whining people.

Others, who are not concerned about future data secrecy and surveillance, about changing laws for better

control of citizens may simply stay away and open a new thread for how to manage a Server.

We, the whining people like to talk about ggod old times, when we simply plugged in a cable and pushed synchronize.

RobertCailliau wrote:

Should have been: "How come they took my post off?"

They only did that because someone or something at Apple is reading these threads.

No, that's because someone (multiple people, actually) reported your TOS violations.

RobertCailliau wrote:

Should have been: "How come they took my post off?"

They only did that because someone or something at Apple is reading these threads.

Obviously the Moderators read the threads, how could they do their job otherwise.

The problem is posters who, after agreeing to the Terms of Use for the site find that they are unable to keep their word. Maybe they find that they disagree with the Terms. Maybe their word is not trustworthy,? But, instead of ceasing to post they just continue until the moderators exercise their right to remove any post that transgresses the rules.

It's quite simple really.