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

Brilliant! A previous version of ownCloud didn't work with OS X, but looks like that has been solved now. I thin it's a significantly easier solution to set up than the Baïkal server solution I went for and which Barney-15E has so helpfully described in his User Tip.

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Yes I also have a spare MacBook Pro on the pre Mavericks system.

I did try OSX Server and it vaguely worked for contacts - but duplicated some of them over 100 times each. Could not get Calendar sync to work at all.

For now I simply keep my calendar and contacts up to date on my MacBook Air (on Mavericks), export a Contacts Achive and Calendar Archive to my desktop, put on a USB stick.

Then I delete all contacts and calendars off the MacBook Pro and reset with the Archive files onto the MacBook Pro.

Then sync with iTunes to my iPhones using the MacBookPro.

Bit of a pain but it works cleanly. And I don't have to learn how to be a computer programmer as that is pretty much what you need for the other solutions.

I haven't updated iTunes on the old MacBook Pro, simply I no longer trust Apple's updates.

And to follow that maybe you have noticed another change on Mavericks - the 'UPDATE reminder' that pops up gives you absolutely NO option to NOT install - the bloody thing only says in an hour or remind tomorrow. That is another pain having that thing ramming Apple updates down users throats every day!

applejpmc wrote:

 

And to follow that maybe you have noticed another change on Mavericks - the 'UPDATE reminder' that pops up gives you absolutely NO option to NOT install - the bloody thing only says in an hour or remind tomorrow. That is another pain having that thing ramming Apple updates down users throats every day!

System Preferences > App Store, uncheck "Automatically Check for Updates".

Thanks Drew

So exactly how are you doing this?  I can't figure out how on my MBP - using Mavericks 10.9.1 and iPhone 4 (Verizon) with iOs 7.0.4

Michael Black is using Google to sync his calendars (see his earlier posts). There are other things which do still sync as before (and purchases typically use iTunes Store, App Store or similar which is effectively a cloud-based service, keeping your data at a central Internet location), but the native iOS contacts and calendars apps now require a cloud-based service (albeit not iCloud (TM)) or if you dont want to put your data on the internet, a locally hosted CardDAV/CalDAV server.

Strictly speaking he and others are correct in saying you don't need to use iCloud (TM), although others are using 'iCloud' as shorthand for any/all cloud-based services.

You can use Kerio or Exchange, both of which allow you to host your own 'cloud' if you want.

has anyone upgraded to iTunes 11.1.4?

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has anyone upgraded to iTunes 11.1.4?

Probably a hundred million people or so...

I have.

One of the great features of "syncing" pre-Mavericks was you could one-way sync. You could use iTunes to force replacement of calendars, contacts, on the iDevice you were syncing to. Anyway to do that in the "new world order" of Mavericks?

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There is for contacts. It's called DirectSync and it's available on the App Store. It's a universal app, so it'll run on all of your Apple mobile devices. The cost is $0.99. It allows to both pull contacts off of a device and push them on to a device using iTunes "File Transfer" and a USB cable. I'm quite happy with it.

Cool. Thanks, Defector. Sounds like what I need for contacts. What iTunes and OS X are you using?

Now I need to find something for calendars. I wonder what happens if you just delete the calendars from the iDevices if you later "sync". Does it wipe out calendars or events on the iMac or just pushes up a fresh new set from the iMac to the iDevices.

Hi Warm,

Yes, I picked it up a few days ago and posted about it a while back. It does exactly what I need, which is allow me to push my contacts database from my Mac to all of my mobile devices, or occasionally load in contacts from a mobile to my Mac for consolidation. I never did like the peer-to-peer synching arrangement before anyway, because it seemed to duplicate contacts a pretty often. Even if sync were still available, I'd still use this app.