Yes thanks Ronni, I did choose the 'Selected Books' option, but from the outset they have ALL defaulted to being selected with tick ON and it appears I can only deselect one by one.
Regards Pete > On 24 Feb 2014, at 7:50 am, Ronni Brown <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi Peter, > >> One minor issue when I select the books to synch in iTunes, after waiting a >> LONG time, (I think you mentioned or I read, the epubs in iBooks synchs with >> iTunes via the Apple store), it seems I have ALL 9516 books synched to my >> phone. I need to bulk deselect them so I can only select those I wish to >> carry on the iPhone. I saw a thread says "Command + right click" does this >> but iTunes takes forever to actually Select All so it's impossible to know >> when all are aelected. I think I'm doing something wrong here. > > Sync Books to iPad or iPhone > > 1. Connect iPad or iPhone to Mac > 2. Open iTunes > 3. Click iPad or iPhone (Books will then appear) > 4. Click Books > 5. Top left where it says Sync Books - (instead of choosing 'All Books') > choose 'Selected Books' > 6. Tick all the books you want on iPad/iPhone (or select ‘All Books’ if you > want to sync all books) > 7. Click Sync button > > Cheers, > Ronni > > 17" MacBook Pro 2.3GHz Quad-Core i7 “Thunderbolt" > 2.3GHz / 8GB / 750GB @ 7200rpm HD > > OS X 10.9.1 Mavericks > Windows 7 Ultimate (under sufferance) > > >> On 24 Feb 2014, at 7:35 am, Peter Crisp <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Thanks for the additional comments Ronni. I figured the external option >> would be a dead end, until they code it into the app. It's only 8GB so I'm >> happy to at least be operational now with all my books. >> >> One minor issue when I select the books to synch in iTunes, after waiting a >> LONG time, (I think you mentioned or I read, the epubs in iBooks synchs with >> iTunes via the Apple store), it seems I have ALL 9516 books synched to my >> phone. I need to bulk deselect them so I can only select those I wish to >> carry on the iPhone. I saw a thread says "Command + right click" does this >> but iTunes takes forever to actually Select All so it's impossible to know >> when all are aelected. I think I'm doing something wrong here. >> >> At the moment I am unable to synch phone as I can't deselect all the books >> so sync operation fails due to inadequate storage space. >> >> >> >> Regards >> >> Pete >> >>> On 23 Feb 2014, at 1:29 pm, Ronda Brown <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> Hi Peter, >>> >>> My comments in situ >>> >>>> On 23 Feb 2014, at 10:34 am, Peter Crisp <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> >>>> Ok, it seems doing the trick of starting iBooks without the external drive >>>> attached worked. It allows the iBook setup to complete, now I'm in the >>>> process of dropping the epubs into ibooks and it is happily importing and >>>> ordering them. Will take some time but for the moment at least it seems to >>>> be progressing nicely. >>> >>> That should work work Peter... >>> To answer your other queries of your email earlier reply this morning. >>> -- >>> You asked two questions: >>> 1. >>>> In the final state, I would prefer the pubs to be on the external drive as >>>> well, so in the Move operation I suspect it is going to drop them into the >>>> [~/ Library/Containers/com.apple.BKAgentService/Data/Documents/ >>>> iBooks/Books] location. >>> >>> >>> As I mentioned before. The files will be "copied" to the location above - >>> The original files will stay where they are on your external drive (or >>> wherever you have them stored) >>> >>> 2. >>>> Is there a way of avoiding this? >>> >>> >>> If you mean is there a way to change the library location to your external >>> drive to save space on your Mac? >>> [~/ Library/Containers/com.apple.BKAgentService/Data/Documents/ >>> iBooks/Books] >>> >>> NO, not at this early stage of iBooks on Mavericks. >>> A lot of people have tried numerous ways... Creating an OS X style "alias" >>> doesn't work or "symbolic links" to the volume on the external drive >>> doesn't work. >>> Nothing successful has been achieved. >>> >>> Searching Google brings up multiple people with the same problem and no >>> answers. >>> >>> Seems as though a few other people are having similar issues on Apple >>> Discussions. >>> https://discussions.apple.com/message/23479605 >>> >>> Cheers, >>> Ronni >>> >>> Sent from Ronni's iPad4 >>> >>> -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- >>> Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> >>> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> >>> Settings & Unsubscribe - >>> <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug> >> -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- >> Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> >> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> >> Settings & Unsubscribe - >> <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug> > > -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- > Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> > Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> > Settings & Unsubscribe - > <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug>
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