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3 Replies Last post: Jul 23, 2007 4:03 PM by feefer  
Click to view MW Forums's profile New Member 12,220 posts since
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Jul 16, 2007 2:00 PM

Sync with iPhone

The question has raged since the iPhone started shipping June 29: Can you sync the iPhone to different computers storing different things? The answer is yes, but not without a few caveats. Jason Snell takes you through the steps. more
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Click to view ecirwin's profile New Member 4 posts since
Jun 11, 2007
1. Jul 16, 2007 5:18 PM in response to: MW Forums
Re: Sync with iPhone
As a side note, I have been able to sync both iCal on my Mac and the Outlook Calendar from my PC to my iPhone without issue, yet.

I do have a couple of appointments from others coming from Outlook that just don't want to sync with the correct time. They stubbornly stick to GMT. I can drag them to a new time in Outlook, which gives me an error message, and then drag them back (yet another error message). On the next sync they show up both in the right time and at the GMT time. I have even deleted the messages and had the originator send me a new invite. I still get them at GMT on the iPhone. Other entries in Outlook work just fine.
Click to view musicpenguy's profile New Member 99 posts since
Dec 19, 2006
2. Jul 16, 2007 7:14 PM in response to: ecirwin
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thank you guys for putting up an iPhone version very nice and sleek. I can only hope you do this for all of your videos! Oh great to know I can actually sync like that.
Click to view feefer's profile Member 237 posts since
Dec 19, 2005
3. Jul 23, 2007 4:03 PM in response to: MW Forums
Re: Sync with iPhone
Just to repeat Jason's warning, this approach is NOT for the faint of heart!

I migrated movie and video data over to my Audio/Video Mac Mintel (where I use EyeTV Hybrid, Audio Hijack Pro, MP3 Trimmer, MPEG Streamclip, Handbrake/iSquint, Visual Hub, VTC, etc), while leaving contacts, calendars, and podcast syncing on my Powerbook. All was working well, until an iPhone sync completely froze up the Mac Mini, necessitating a hard re-start.

Afterwards, the hard drive was corrupted to the point the computer refused to boot from the internal drive (the dreaded "missing system folder" question mark icon appeared). When I restarted from an external USB drive, the system drive revealed errors that Disk Utility 3 wasn't able to fix (obviously: I had to updating to Disk Warrior 4, since older Disk Utility 3 cannot fix drives formatted for Intel machines; same goes for TTP4, etc).

Of course, an update to DW4 will take awhile to arrive by mail, so I decided to swap out the older drive with it's trashed directory (catalog b-tree error, etc) and do a clean system install on the external drive.... Fortunately, I have the Mini's data backed up elsewhere, so nothing important was lost; however, I just wasted a lot of time. As far as why the sync froze, I have no idea: a couple of ideas, though, for what might've been gone wrong.

So mess with this stuff at your own risk: it's not turn-key, or risk-free. You're on your own.

Once I get it running again, I'll be worried that subsequent updates would change something that breaks the hack; you've got to ask if it's worth trying to operate outside of Apple's recommended "one computer to sync one iPhone" approach, at least until multi-library support is officially announced from Apple. With Leopard on the horizon, perhaps they'll look at including this, to preclude such limited restrictions on data?