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  1. JungleNYC

    Worst. Beta. Ever.

    I've been doing this for over a decade. Never seen anything this bad. And it's BAD. iCloud is a complete garbage fire. And everything that touches it is affected, including non seed machines, and causing major problems on devices running older OS versions. I got Photos "uploading" 500gb from...
  2. I

    iCloud Keychain not syncing down to macOS Keychain Access

    I tried this post in the macOS forum, with no replies. Any thoughts over here? Thanks! :) ************************************************************************** I recently had my iMac hard drive upgraded (High Sierra, 10.13.6), and afterwards have had a problem with Keychain Access...
  3. I

    iCloud Keychain not syncing down to Keychain Access

    I recently had my iMac hard drive upgraded (High Sierra, 10.13.6), and afterwards have had a problem with Keychain Access. Despite several attempts to turn off/on keychain and iCloud on my iMac, I can't seem to get Keychain Access (and therefore Safari passwords) to pull my saved iCloud...
  4. mrgreeneyes

    ibooks app question

    Hello, I am currently using ibooks to sync books to my ipad and iPhone. and I have a question, when I go into the books folder. I see a bunch of books that have been renamed to long file name with letters and numbers. why is that? also I added a few new books and when I try to sync them...
  5. tombarnes

    iPad Contacts: Phone Number format NIGHTMARE

    I've scoured the forums for an answer on this! My devices, MacBook Pro, iPhone and personal iPad have been all in harmony and working just fine for years. I've just started using iMessage and other iCloud functions on my separate work iPad. However, my work iPad formats all my phone numbers in...
  6. I

    OneNote access to Sharepoint

    Hi all, I need to get my OneNote so sync with Sharepoint website but when i paste the link it loads a bit and does nothing, is there anything i am doing wrong here? Thanks, Ivan.
  7. W

    iTunes Match/iCML: Is there a way to keep an already-downloaded playlist automatically updated?

    Quick question about iTunes Match/iCloud Music Library. Is there anyway to auto-download new music but only in playlists that I previously downloaded on my phone? So let's say my whole iTunes library is uploaded to Match. On my iPhone, I go in the Music app and download a couple playlists (eg...
  8. maverick28

    Will bookmarks sync from older OSes?

    I posted this on ASC with 0 reactions so trying my luck here. According to the minimum system requirements Safari bookmarks should sync across devices. I run 10.7.5 with Safari 5.1.7 on one of partitions of the drive and my iPhone runs iOS 12.2. On both devices it's the same AppleID account...
  9. yellow8

    SubShifter - An app to shift your subtitles

    SubShifter Meet SubShifter, an incredibly simple app to shift your subtitles files in seconds. Select your file, select the shift period, hit the "Shift" button, save the results. Done. SubShifter: supports macOS Mojave Dark Mode supports the TouchBar supports Drag & Drop You can download...
  10. mrgreeneyes

    iTunes 12.8.2.3 books help

    Hello, i have installed the newer version of iTunes 12.8.2.3 and i want to know how do i add books to my iPad? before i could just add them into iTunes then select the books i wanted on my iPad, but now i can't seem to figure out how to sync books? what do i do?
  11. mrgreeneyes

    iTunes sync problem

    Hello, i am running iTunes 12.6.3.6 only because i like to be able to manage my non-itunes ebooks. unless there is a much better way to manage my books with the new iTunes version. anyways, i keep getting this error message when i try to sync my iPhone 7 iOS 12.2 but when i sync my iPad mini...
  12. J

    NOTES bug in 10.14.4

    Since updating all my devices yesterday, handwritten content no longer shows up in Notes on my MacBook Pro. iCloud is syncing fine; new notes and typed content sync promptly. I have tried toggling notes on/off in System Preferences to no avail. Anyone else seeing similar problems?
  13. wozmatic

    Does anyone know how much data is used for iOS to keep time synced with the official time?

    I'm sure it's very little data, but still would be nice to see an accurate number (I don't want to know for data usage, I want to know for curiosity, and maybe how often it checks to see it's synced.) Maybe some nerd had graphed the packet data on the phone to see when and how much data the...
  14. centre21

    iPhone X Maintain data on phone during first connection to iTunes

    So here's the situation: My wife got a new iPhone X, but the people at the store didn't let us know that she'd have to upgrade to El Capitan to synchronize the device. Her Mac is capable of running EC, but we never got around to upgrading it. So I attempted to upgrade her Mac, but the upgrade...
  15. L

    iCloud is totally nuts - HELP!!!

    Hey everyone, this is my first post so I'll first introduce myself. My name is Lucas, I'm from Argentina and I've been using Apple products (MacBook, iPhone and iPad) for the last 10 years. Let's cut through the chase to the problem I've been facing for the past 2 weeks. I have a 50GB plan on...
  16. 1

    File Sync Between macOS and Ubuntu

    Hi! I like using Terminal with ZSH. I use it on two computers: Macbook Air with macOS Mojave and PC with Ubuntu 18.10. I'd like to sync my .zshrc file between those computers to have the same aliases and other stuff on both. I need a solution for local network (system solution would be the...
  17. mrgreeneyes

    photos not syncing to iPhone 7

    Hello, i can't seem to get iTunes and Photos to sync any photos to my iPhone. in iTunes i select the albums i want synced and then click sync, it does its thing and then i check my iPhone for the specific albums and they do not sync, i double checked to see that the albums in fact had photos in...
  18. stylinexpat

    New iPad Pro 11 USB-C Data transfer speeds

    Over the years syncing with a MacBook Pro has been a nightmare with syncing speeds being very slow using the standard lightning Cable we got. I am wondering how much faster this new cable will be for syncing with iTunes compared to before on previous iPads and iPhones. I did notice that the new...
  19. M

    Photos app showing wrong date and not reading geotags of imported MOV files

    I'm using an iPhone 6 with iOS 12.1 and when syncing photos and videos with iTunes 12.9.0.167 for windows I have noticed that the MOV files are showing the wrong date (file creation date not date taken) and it's geotag is not being read at all. Funny thing is when I airdrop the same file to...
  20. GuillaumeB

    Syncing Docs&Desktop on two Mac ?

    Hello, I got two Macs 1 & 2. In iCloud settings I chose to sync Documents and Desktop on both machines Yet on iCloud.com, only Docs&Desktop of Mac 1 show up Besides in the Finder I see that Docs&Folders of Mac 1 shows in the iCloud section of Mac 1 I see that Docs&Folders of Mac 2 shows in...