Ok, will do this eve when home. Thanks for this. I will have to temporarily disable the wireless synch to iPhone as well I presume.
Regards Pete > On 24 Feb 2014, at 7:58 am, Ronni Brown <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi again Peter, > > I was rushing (bit busy here ;-) and forgot to give you instructions to Stop > iPhone from automatically syncing, so you can then change the settings > > To Prevent iPhone from Automatically Syncing in iTunes so you can change your > settings: > > 1. While connecting the iPhone to the computer on a Mac. > Hold down the Option and Command (⌥ and ⌘ Apple) keys together. > > This will stop the iPhone from auto-syncing with iTunes and it will appear in > the source list under Devices > > 2. Open iTunes > Wait until you are sure the iPhone is showing under devices in iTunes, and > that it will not Auto Sync and then you can let the keys go. > > This may take between 20 to 30 seconds depending on your computer. > > 3. You should then be able to change your settings: > > Cheers, > Ronni > >> 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>
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