Simon, first the iDisk can reside on the machine or not. This is a preference in System Preferences under the Mobile Me tab. Now here are some things to consider. First if you keep a copy of your iDisk on your Mac, you will give up 20Gb of drive space. Since I just use my private iDisk to store stuff, I just copy it by hand and therefore, it isn't using my local drive. Now of course the tradeoff is if you keep the local iDisk on your machine, it will be updated automatically and you would have to take no action to sync stuff. THere again are other ways such as using Backup and that would take care of needing to sync the two disks. Now the public portion of the disk is really up to you if you want to put a password on it. I chose to do so, but I rarely have used it and if I put something out there for someone or a group of people, I don't necessarily want just anyone to have access to it. I know Apple is working on improving the accessibility of the site and it is better than it was, but yes it has a way to go. I don't know of one specific article or series of articles that would answer all of your questions, but I say start with help and maybe do a little searching on Google perhaps and well I'm sure others here will have some answers.
On Jun 25, 2009, at 5:24 AM, Simon Cavendish wrote: > > > Begin forwarded message: > >> From: Simon Cavendish <[email protected]> >> Date: 25 June 2009 10:20:38 BST >> To: [email protected] >> Subject: Mobileme and a novice >> >> Dear Listers, >> >> Is there some comprehensive knowledge article or a series of >> articles on mobileme? I've just taken out a trial subscription but >> I'm not sure from the reading I've done I actually understand its >> potential. >> >> Also, Public folder is a part of mobileme and so the IDisc. I don't >> quite understand how they work and whether it is better to have my >> public folder password-protected or not? >> >> Having subscribed to mobileme, I now have an icon on my desktop >> with my mobileme ID as title. Does this folder actually reside on >> my Macbook, or is it situated somewhere in cloud computing? If it >> is somewhere on the internet, is it safe? >> >> Mobileme interface is not particularly compatible with Voiceover >> when accessed through the Internet. Has anyone got any suggestions >> or strategies? >> >> If there's been a discussion on our group on these subjects, can >> anyone provide some directions? I feel a bit of a dummy asking such >> basic questions but a lot of the stuff on the Internet is full of >> IT vocabulary and hence somewhat opaque. >> >> Thanks for any help. >> >> With best wishes >> >> Simon > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
