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

gumsie wrote:

 

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

The only people who can remove posts are the Hosts. They are paid Apple employees.

Peter,

Yes, you are correct:  Link will contact with Calendar and Contacts . .  . However, Outlook does not connect with Calendar and Contacts anymore due to the loss of Sync . . .

Some people on this forum must be payd by Apple.

Wrong, please research the term User Community.

The link here takes you to the Apple Communities Use Agreement. It specifically states;

Apple involvement. Apple may respond to questions but does not formally provide technical support on the Site. Any information that is provided by Apple or Apple employees is offered on an "AS IS" basis without warranties of any kind.

That is, they are on the site even if they only respond personally and are employed, (and are paid unless working for free), by Apple. So I believe you are correct.

You are free to believe anything you like.

wiredancer wrote:

 

Some people on this forum must be payd by Apple.

Yes, the Hosts, identified by a purple apple avatar. but they rarely post outside of the Using Apple Support Communities forum and the Community Specialists (black apple and a title) who answer questions that have gone unanswered for at least 24 hours and meet a couple of other criteria. No one from either of these groups have posted in this thread. The Hosts have removed various posts that were reported to them by users.

wiredancer wrote:

 

Some people on this forum must be payd by Apple.

Contact them and request it. I will forward my bank details when needed. (Also that should be 'paid').

Cheers

Pete

hihi funny (-:

.... no but seriously, most of you out there seam so pro-iCloud. I'm not against iCloud, I'm just trying to find a solution to sync locally, since I would never use Cloud.

there are some solutions out there and better ones will certainly follow soon.

(but still angry at Apple, grrrrr)

wiredancer wrote:

 

hihi funny (-:

.... no but seriously, most of you out there seam so pro-iCloud.

More just realists. CalDAV and CardDAV are much simpler, not proprietary, and work far better than SyncServices ever did. I don't see any amount of whining bringing back something they stopped development on two years ago. The whole world is going forward with CalDAV/CardDAV. For most, iCloud, Google, Yahoo is sufficient. The rest will have to host their own or wait for a third party to create some local server for the very small niche that won't or can't use the cloud.

Hello

New to forum stuff excuse lack of etiquette.

I started at the begnning and read in 6 pages and then jumped to the end as I dont have time to check 130 pages and the last page seems to be the same stuff...

I do not want to synch using icloud. Totallay agree with previous comments on security and use of data. I dont care if considered paranoid.

I have been sychning by pluggin in but really trying to work out how to do it over local wifi (I have ticked the box that says 'synch wirelssly over wifi) but still my phone does not register stuff in calendar that I put on desktop unless plugged in. Although the macbook air does. And the emails come through. Its just calendar (and also contacts dont seem to update either)

So previously my phone calendar synched fine when plugging in (but hadnt sussed contacts) but recently my phone wont seem to pick up what I have put into the desktop even when plugged in with a wire. IS this because of these upgrades?

Then I saw it picks up the gmail calendar but not the icloud calendar (I didnt realise it was an icloud calendar cos is not made clear set as default! so most appointments this). So think I can fix it by ensuring all future appointements are made in the gmail cal rather than the icloud cal. But I would like all my previous entries too synched too.

On reading the posts I was reassured as I knew I have mountain lion. However on checking I see it has changed to OSX (but it doesnt say 'Maverick' is that the same thing?!).

On the first page of this posts someone says you need Itunes 11.1 but then another post says it works on the lateset version (which I dont know what that was in Oct 2013) . I have 11.1.3(8)

Question: is it too late and have I accepted upgrades too recent for a) OS and b) for itunes?

If so can I downgrade again?

I cant find anywhere that will tell me how to find out what and when my mac has upgraded. Isnt there a log somewhere?

I hate being duped into stuff and really disheartened by these cheeky tricks. Advice apprecaited and apologies if this appeared somewhere at page 66.

ITs 10.7.5 by the way. I think Maverick is 10.9? Sorry didnt realise post so long.

So why doesnt it work then?! Because Itunes has upgraded?

I thought this stuff was supposed to be easy and intuative.....grr.

What is your objection to Apples cloud service?

Googles cloud is far less secure, and Google sell your stuff to anyone with the money!

Help me understand?

As far as downgrading goes, the simplest method is to restore the backup you made prior to upgrading, otherwise erase your hard drive and reinstall to the level you want to be at, as this will erase all data you must backup first.

If so can I downgrade again?

How to revert OS X back from Mavericks

While you can revert, it's not an easy process. At some time in the future you will replace your computer and it will not run the old software. You will be forced to accept that sync is via a cloud service. You are only delaying the inevitable.

Kteec, you should be fine...if your iTunes has an Info tab when you plug in your phone, then your'e not impacted as SyncServices are still in Lion (10.7).