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

up to iOS 6.x you had direct access to chapters in audiobooks (double click on the book you were listening), iOS7 broke it. It was/is crucial feature for audiobooks, especially if you have reference books with 100+ chapters and need access  to various chapters.

mihevi wrote:

 

up to iOS 6.x you had direct access to chapters in audiobooks (double click on the book you were listening), iOS7 broke it. It was/is crucial feature for audiobooks, especially if you have reference books with 100+ chapters and need access  to various chapters.

These Forums are for OSX 10.9 specifically, iOS is the system used on iPhones and iPads, so you need to post in the correct forums.

Cheers

Pete

To James, Peter, and all the others,

Thank you for your assistance and suggestions.  Have tried the server option on one of the machines we will discard/sell.  To date have failed, but likely an issue with my lack of ability. 

Before the new year a decision was made to discontinue test of Mac as a corporate solution given not only sync, but legal issues with iCloud, Outlook 2011, etc.  Now amost a 1,000 units of MacAir look alike Wintel units are soon to arrive.  I type this on a new BB10. 

A pity really as my experience has shown Mac to be better built, and the interface for various languages and associated fonts simply fabulous - more then enough to cope with lack of encryption, lack ot true push, etc.  However, backward compatibility, and a LONG commitment to platform drive corporate decisions.  And with 40,000 employees world wide this is a huge issue.  Not to mention investment.

I still could not believe the decision, despite what IT was telling me. (and lack of interest from Apple).  So today I put on my chinos and headed to an Apple Genius Bar.  After 40 minutes, the techies were confused why no sync, no tabs, etc.  They looked in a database, and discovered the reason we are all familiar with.  They were shocked.  As luck would have it, a floor salesperson commented they had lost a contract with goverment due to the legality of iCloud hosting.

Surprise, one, Genius was unaware of the changes, two, Apple is losing sales.  Perhaps there might be a change in the future and Sync will return.  Or maybe not.  If not, it is a pity Apple is effectively closing the door on Enterprise as I do think they make an exceptional product.

Again, thank you for your time and assistance.

I hope your company CIO has written to Apple because they will most likely not read your post.  You can still sync BB10 phones with Mac via Blackberry Link, by the way.

Peter,

Thank you.  We are in contact.

As for Outlook 2011 on Mac, unfortunately no.  The removal of local sync means no connection between BB10 and Outlook. Direct push from Exchange to BB is fine, but not on the Mac.

All the best.

I am incredibly dissapointed as well.  No matter how you view the forced i-cloud usage, which should be illegal, the part I don't like most is the loss of functionality.  I liked having  a specific group in my address book that was for my devices, keeping me from having to sync my entire contacts library. 

Plus. I've seen the icloud fail for so many, causing loss of data accross it all.

I've been syncing my notes via icloud and its ridden with bugs and duplication all the time. I'm constantly emailing notes to myself as a backup.  Last thing I want to do is trust my contacts to it.

What a mess.  I hope I can revert to the pre-Maverick version.

And please people... at minimum, go to wiki and read about Edward Snowden.  Our information is mined on a  very exposed, sophisticated, factual, and real level.  Only the US has been caught breaking thier own laws.  Other countries are surely trying the same.

NEVER trust the government OR the banks (pretty much the same these days). 

Being forced onto a cloud is very conspicuous. 

voiceness wrote:

 

And please people... at minimum, go to wiki and read about Edward Snowden.  Our information is mined on a  very exposed, sophisticated, factual, and real level.  Only the US has been caught breaking thier own laws.  Other countries are surely trying the same.

 

NEVER trust the government OR the banks (pretty much the same these days). 

 

Being forced onto a cloud is very conspicuous. 

I guarantee you the self appointed forum police will along to pass comment and remove that remark PDQ.......

Anyway. One other option I might try, (as I use Parallels extensively anyway), is to run ML in a VM. I think I'll have to look at licensing on this score too.

I don't doubt you are probably right.  But isn't it the elephant in the room (or planet)?

I use VMware...  What's ML?

LOL.

ML is Mountain Lion. I went back to it after losing local sync. A real shame as I quite like Mavericks. For a VM I reckon all I need is a big enough space to store my iTunes library + a few extra gigs and I'm good.

(DOUGH... )

Um. Yeah. ML.

I'll look at that.  Good idea.

voiceness wrote:

 

(DOUGH... )

 

Um. Yeah. ML.

 

I'll look at that.  Good idea.

For me it seems quite viable. It'll cost you some overhead though.

Ok i'll take your word for it. Blackberry assured us that, even though Blackberry Desktop Software will no longer work, Blackberry Link for Mac will still sync Contacts and Calendar on BB10 phones, but they probably havent stopped lying just because Thorsten Heins has left the company. They will stop making phones soon, hope you didnt buy too many!

Surprised he's not going WindowsPhone actually.

Our IT dept just tried out a number of platforms, (Android, iOS, Win and BB). Windows phone won and without knowing too much about it the potential for solid integration in what effectively is a Windows based business is great. Rooting for iOS without mentioning this sync issue made no difference.

There is no forced iCloud storage, choose whatever service you desire.