Maverick won't permit syncing Address Book or Calendar by USB to iPhone or iPad and permits only syncing by iCloud, which I don't want to use. Any ideas on how to sync without using iCloud?

It shouldn't, Contacts should detect duplicates and update the existing card.

Thank you. It works but it is an awfully cumbersome way of doing things. Time consuming and silly but I will do it untill I figure out something else or Apple comes around and cares about its customers getting what they really want.

dvswaynos wrote

For Calendar the work around is as follows.

1. Go to Calendar and export your calendar or calendars say to the desktop.

2. Send the calendar file to your email address.

3. Open the email on your phone and when all the calendar entries appear, hit Add calendar entries.

Exporting your calendar is a good idea, as I have flirted with using the cloud several times and it always seemed to eat my calendar entries.

Thank you. It works but it is an awfully cumbersome way of doing things. Time consuming and silly but I will do it untill I figure out something else or Apple comes around and cares about its customers getting what they really want.

Watch out for the misinformationTrolls here making all sorts of FAKE claims like " 320 million people are using iCloud" These trolls are here to set an agenda and it's all about paying to handover all your data! He'll tell you it's good for you too.

AZPublishing wrote:

Watch out for the misinformationTrolls here making all sorts of FAKE claims like " 320 million people are using iCloud" These trolls are here to set an agenda and it's all about paying to handover all your data! He'll tell you it's good for you too.

You should probably loosen the tin foil before you pass out.

AZPublishing wrote:

claims like " 320 million people are using iCloud"

So you have some verification for the number of people using iCloud?

Why don't you link to it so we can all see.

While you do that here's a quote from an independent source, I have included a link so you may look for yourself.

iCloud is a cloud storage and cloud computing service[3][4][5] from Apple Inc. launched on October 12, 2011. As of July 2013, the service has 320 million users.[6]

Here is the link to the page (there are more links on the page as well)

I am eagerly awaiting some proof of your claim, post your link soon please.

Hi AZPublishing. I must admit that my numbers may be out a fraction. Given the age of the post you took so long to reply too, I believe it may now be many more users.

But provide your link so everyone can see for themselves.

Thanks in advance.

Pete

I don't know what the big thing here was/is about number of iCloud accounts but the 320 million number comes from last years 2013 Q3 stock report confirmed by Apple.

http://business.financialpost.com/2013/07/23/apple-inc-earnings-live/?__lsa=e966 -c0ed

This was up from the reported 150 millions reported in 2012 Q3. This was widely reported by numerous sources commenting on 2013 Q3 results and confirmed by Apple to these media sources during Q&A on same Q3 results.

I don't understand how this is relevant to the topic conversation. Perhaps I missed something?

George in NY

georgeny wrote:

I don't know what the big thing here was/is about number of iCloud accounts but the 320 million number comes from last years 2013 Q3 stock report confirmed by Apple.

http://business.financialpost.com/2013/07/23/apple-inc-earnings-live/?__lsa=e966 -c0ed

This was up from the reported 150 millions reported in 2012 Q3. This was widely reported by numerous sources commenting on 2013 Q3 results and confirmed by Apple to these media sources during Q&A on same Q3 results.

I don't understand how this is relevant to the topic conversation. Perhaps I missed something?

George in NY

Maybe you missed this gem from AZPublishing:

Watch out for the misinformationTrolls here making all sorts of FAKE claims like " 320 million people are using iCloud"

Csound1 wrote:

Maybe you missed this gem from AZPublishing:

Watch out for the misinformationTrolls here making all sorts of FAKE claims like " 320 million people are using iCloud"

Actually I saw that what I missed was the original claim? No matter my problem is simply that it is no longer a function of Itunes allowing manual sync by connected. Now whether the concern is data security privacy ( that ship sailed many a year ago as far as I am concerned ) or simply sync accuracy and control, the loss of the manual option was a game changer for many. After my initial concerns an comments here I admit the issue for me simply faded into the background. Reason being that the sync between machines via iCloud was functioning very well. Then recently the OOPS factor raised it's ugly head. Noted that suddenly birthdays that had been in my calendar for years disappeared on my desktop yet strangely remain on Iphone and Ipad. Recently I received an email with some dates it and clicked on them to create calendar events. While created the evnts on my Ipad and Iphone calendar's nothing appeared on my desktop calendar nor do they days later. The real funny thing is that the email and events were created on the desktop where they failed to appear while obviously being sync to the others devices despite that.

The bottom line of that is simply that control of maintaining accurate data is no longer mine, it is all done magically by algorythm on some server program.

George in NY

It sounds like you have not setup iCloud correctly

On your Mac, open Calendar, go to Preferences>General and tell me what the default calendar is (you'll see it at the bottom of the General page)

Subscribe to the Birthday calendar at iCloud.com, then it will appear on all iCloud clients.

Csound1 wrote:

It sounds like you have not setup iCloud correctly

On your Mac, open Calendar, go to Preferences>General and tell me what the default calendar is (you'll see it at the bottom of the General page)

Subscribe to the Birthday calendar at iCloud.com, then it will appear on all iCloud clients.

Csound, I do appreciate your taking time to attempt to assist but please trust me I did not start with all this yesterday. In fact I am so old and crotchedy that built myfirst computer bought at Heathkit. 🙂 Like tech always says, it's you not them, I'll take that bet 99 out of 100 it's IS THEM!

The birthdays calendar takes it's information from the contact list. I do not use that feature of the contact list preferring to eliminate the extra step. I simply put a birthday in and set it for posting every year. This works without a problem for YEARS! Now Apple has already agreed and noted that they have that very problem that they have been unable to correct. For some reason, unknow to them as well, the setting of a ANNUAL calendar event simply comes and goes at some whim of the 0's and 1's. Again only on the desktop usually and if they do reappear they do so suddebnly as multiple entries despite only being on my HOME default calendar.

Another reason I donot use such things as a separate birthday calendar is that the process of merging data is where most data is corrupted. Verizon recently merged some of their data and now my first name on an account is also my last name. Two months still trying to get that corrected.

No this is not a settings problem. Often check settings as another wonderful thing in today's age of computing, updates often change them. Not the case here. IT IS THEM and it is understandable that things like this happen. What is not understandable is that they don't routinely cop to the errors and simply report their efforts to correct them. Multi platform sync is probably the hardest thing to do in computing and for most part Apple does it better than anyone. This is why it would be nice to have the manual alternative. Manaul sync not be as magical but it worked.

George in NY

Whether you check or not is your decision.

Good luck.

Csound1 wrote:

Whether you check or not is your decision.

Good luck.

Thank you for the good luck wishes.

Here is a link to apple's own knowledge base info. you will see that they acknowlege the problem but don't address the problem ither than to present the contact list option.

7. Clean up birthdays and use the Birthday Calendar

Birthdays that you manually entered in Calendar (or iCal) can sometimes result in issues, such as infinitely repeating events that can cause slowness and contribute to unnecessary resource utilization in Calendar (or iCal).

http://support.apple.com/kb/TS4337?viewlocale=en_US&locale=en_US

Also note the multitude of steps offered and required to attempt to fix sync issues. What ever happened to " it just works "mantra?

And if you follow all this and eventaully do correct your data, it remains corrected only until the next corruption event.

georgeny wrote:

Csound1 wrote:

Whether you check or not is your decision.

Good luck.

Also note the multitude of steps offered and required to attempt to fix sync issues. What ever happened to " it just works "mantra?

You do realize that there is no sync with a Dav system (iCloud is a Dav system), assuming that this is a sync system will generally lead you down the wrong path.