Henry Kautz

Q: iBooks OS X/iOS syncs randomly categories, collections, or titles

I cannot find any way to get iBooks to syncs pdf properties -- tile, category, and collection -- consistently between my MacBook Pro (El Capitan), iPad, and iPhone.  The pdf's themselves sync.  Sometimes the category syncs, but at other times not, same for collection.  What is really annoying is that titles don't sync if I change them on the Mac. 

 

For the title problem, I though I could fix it by using Adobe Acrobat to change the title metadata as well as changing the file name.  When I import into iBooks, however, iBook shows it as *two* books, one with the new title, one with the original title the pdf was created with (eg some random string).  Only the only with the bad title syncs!

 

Does everyone have this problem?  (I've done all the usual stuff, signing in and out, rebooting, etc.)

Posted on Jul 31, 2016 6:51 PM