Many thanks, Andy. You _almost_ had me convinced to proceed with the upgrade ( I initiated it 3 times and chickened out each time) but then an online chat with an Apple advisor confirmed the drawbacks:
• Although MobileMe collects an annual subscription, they won't support calendar syncing with OS 10.5.8 and they won't offer a rebate towards the purchase of OS 10.6.x • The upgraded calendars won't have all the features for users of OS 10.5.8 • Apple advises not to upgrade if you have more than 30,000 events across all calendars yet they don't provide instructions for obtaining the count. The Advisor said she could check, then came back and said she couldn't. I asked her to provide a script for counting my events but she couldn't do that either. • Calendar groups have been eliminated • MobileMe is still too buggy. It's sometimes unavailable, editing calendar entries is excruciatingly slow, and the log out command on one of my Macs using FireFox suddenly broke and no one seems to have a fix. I have to forcefully disengage from the active MobileMe login. • The upgrade disrupts use of SpanningSync for sending changes to Google. If the only deterrent were monetary I'd hold my nose and deal, but there are just too many other drawbacks right now. I dearly want to resume untethered syncing but will try to wait until the dust settles some time after May 5th. Am curious if other forum members with 10.5.8 made the switch and are satisfied with the results. Thank you all, YangYin On Apr 21, 3:52 am, G8TQH <[email protected]> wrote: > As I undertand it you could have continued with the way you were > working after accepting the MobileMe update! > > My calendar resides on my Mac and syncs with updated MobileMe, my > iPhone and my iPod. OK, I know that, in truth, it resides on MobileMe > -- but I don't see much of a difference with that little thing -- > other than my "To Do's" getting re-ordered every so often. I works > just the same on my Mac and iPhone. > > I can change entries using the Mac, the iPhone and MobileMe over the > web (the latter is just really, really, really slow from the UK). > Spanning Sync updates my Google Calendar whenever I let it. Changes > made with Google DON'T go anywhere -- a bit like your description of 1- > way sync. > > I hope this helps. > > Cheers > Andy > > On Apr 20, 6:22 am, YangYin <[email protected]> wrote: > > > So can anyone clarify the options now that I've decided to ditch > > MobileMe calendar? > > > Thus far, my routine has been: > > 1) calendar entries lived locally on my desktop computer > > 2) they got synced back and forth to the MobileMe cloud > > 3) the cloud synced back and forth with an iPhone 3G running iOS 4 > > 4) I periodically ran a manual 1-way sync from the desktop ("never > > change iCal") to Google via Spanning Sync as a sort of remote backup > > > Due to the impending changes, today I disabled MobileMe calendar > > syncing and elected Google as the cloud. Will Spanning Sync perform > > two-way syncs between the desktop and Google after May 5th now that I > > took MobileMe out of the loop? Then is there any way to get 2-way > > syncing between Google calendar and the iPhone's calendar app --- or > > have I just doomed myself to launching and signing into the Google > > mobile calendar every time I need to view/change an upcoming > > appointment? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Spanning Sync" 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/spanningsync?hl=en.
