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

Without making a truncated version of your contacts with 1000 contacts there is no way to prove a data volume limit. Not going to be easy.  Poor volume testing has caught out many a small outfit.

I noticed that SyncMate doesn't find any contacts unless you put them into a group first. Could that be your problem?

here is my report, syncing with SyncMate 5 Beta:

I synced my iPad 1, iPhone 3, iPhone 4, and iPhone 5 successfully. …. BUT, it did not function at first. I figured out, that if in Calendar or Contacts on my Mac there are other accounts active (for example remote accounts accounts like Google or ownCloud) then it poses a problem for SyncMate. I deactivated all the accounts and only left the “On My Mac” active. After that everything synced.

A little down side is the extensive time it takes to sync each time. Over 5 min.

Hax0r, YES, I am absolutely interested in a solution to sync that does not use iCloud.

And would pay for it.

Syncmate 5 by Eltima software is in Beta, (so is free at present). Back up your contacts first and put it to the test, update Eltima and we could have a winner.

I've only noticed one small bug so far.

Anyone know whether the iphone update to 7.1 has any effect on Mountain Lion syncing of contacts and calendar, don't want to screw up my current settings before Eltima has completed beta testing?

Anyone know how long testing traditionally takes?

Thanks

Mac Allan wrote:

 

Anyone know whether the iphone update to 7.1 has any effect on Mountain Lion syncing of contacts and calendar, don't want to screw up my current settings before Eltima has completed beta testing?

 

Anyone know how long testing traditionally takes?

Thanks

You mean Mavericks syncing no doubt?

I don't know and anybody who does is likely under an NDA. You'll have to google this one....

I have been running 7.1 since it was announced.  I also run Mountain Lion because of all the reasons given here.

iOS 7.1 syncs calendar events and contacts just fine with Mountain Lion.  I can not speak to any Eltima issues.

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Thanks Armando, hopefully my upgrade will go smoothly as well

I have done some testing with "SyncMate Expert 5.0.111" in a virtual machine with 10.9 and iPod iOS 6.1 seems to work properly.

But since I've already spent a lot of time to test "MAMP + Baikal," I will work perfectly for now I continue to use "MAMP + Baikal".

Sorry for my "GooglEnglish"

Background: last month I bought a new MacBook Pro (Mavericks installed). I used Time Machine (TM) to back up my old (Mountain Lion) Mac. I then used TM to install all my files on the new computer — without any apparent conflicts. I subsequently tried to install Bailkal Server, OS X Server and SyncMate 5 and encountered a series of problems, culminating in the loss of admin privileges in my user accounts, and being locked out of System Preferences/Users and Groups.

Apple Store: Last week I spent four hours at my local Apple Store trying to sort out the problems. (Interestingly, the staff there were not aware that local sync had been disabled for Calendar and Contacts.)

Apple trainer’s opinion: the problems probably were caused by using TM to migrate all my files. It’s likely that system conflicts were caused by software I was using with Mountain Lion.

Solution: we did a complete reinstall of Mavericks, and moved my files by hand, item by item, from TM to the computer.

Sync: I am now concentrating on trying to get Syncmate 5 to work. Calendars work fine, but not Contacts. In total, I have about 4,250, but I can only sync one group of about 350. I can’t sync any second group. Are my results in line with other peoples? Or have some people been able to sync whole, substantial Contacts files? (Of course, I’ve tried discussing this with Eltima, reporting logs etc. but there is more discussion here than on their forum.)

I also was not able to sync my entire contact list.

I sent an email to SyncMate, but even they responded saying that there is no upper bound, I had to resort to creating groups of about 400 each.

I absolutely hate that Apple is taking this Orwellian/Big Brother approach to OUR DATA! It is unacceptable on several levels that they made this change:

1) There was no notification, so it is their asserted unilateral right to DECREASE functionality on equipment and with processes that cost us all money and that we had come to rely on

2) There was no notification that they were going to reduce functionality so people like me could have refrained completely from the supposed "upgrade"

2) We should NOT be comp[elled to give up our contacts and calendar information, i.e. who we know and where we have been or will be to some muntinational corporation.

I have been an Apple product user (not a zealot, but a user) since the beginning. I even went to school with Jobs (what little he attended) and this is not where it was supposed to go. Guess I was naieve... Big Data scares the **** ougt of me when it is used this way.

Finally, I truly do wonder where the "upside" is for Apple? Are they truly that big that they can purport to own our personal data, track our whereabouts, and spy on us with abandon? I suppose so. Oh well, guess I'm old fashioned!

This will be the end of my use of Apple products if this is not remedied.

This will be the end of my use of Apple products if this is not remedied.

That's a shame, what will you use instead?

Anything and everything but.

In any case you are avoiding the question of personal rights... and functional continuity of products we have already paid for and invested time in.

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It is a shame because all this tech was supposed to "liberate" and "empower" us.

In further reply to your question...

How about a DayTimer, that would be quite retro, don't you think?