I signed up to mobile me yesterday and so far it's been good and bad in roughly equal measure...
THE GOOD
• Completely got rid of the over 100 spam emails I was getting every day.
• Got push mail synched across mac pro, macbook pro and iphone.
• Forward my me@mydomain email to me@me.com and I receive mail through me.com and reply through mydomain.com on all my devices
• Synched my address book and calendar across all 3 devices.
THE BAD
• Got a kernel panic requiring a force quit every time I tried to reply to mail - solved by logging off mobile me and logging in again and logging out of and into system again
• Mails were not previewing in the view window when the title was clicked in the mail list - only the header was showing until I double clicked the mail then a new window would open which did not show the mail either but the mail would then show in the original preview window - solved using same method as above.
• Having synched my mac pro to mobile me, it suddenly decided it had never been synched. When I went to synch it again it told me a machine with this name had already been synched on my account and I couldn't synch 2 computers with same name - in other words it thought my mac pro today was a different machine from my mac pro yesterday - I went ahead and synched it again anyway and seems to be ok so far.
THE UGLY
• Back to my mac - 8 hours spent trying to get this to work and still no luck...Got my mac pro BTMM to turn on at least but MBP at home always just says "connecting" but never getting anywhere. As part of diagnostic I brought the MBP to the office and plugged it into my ethernet hub - now BTMM is on on both machines and they can see each other in shared devices but when I try to connect from one to the other it just says "connecting" again for ages and eventually "connection failed" with no explanation as to why. BTMM is without doubt the most un-maclike application I have ever come across "it just doesn't work" from what I can tell - It's the first time I've rung applecare in a decade (and still no luck). I've tried all the troubleshooting steps and have uPnP enabled on both routers etc but with no results. It's been interesting googling my problems and seeing many threads on many forums from people all with similar problems to me - and not once have I seen a thread that actually ends in a solution - just lots of people posting "yes - I have that problem too, can anyone help?" and eventually the thread ends with no answers. It's a real shame as BTMM promises to be brilliant for me - if only it worked.
Any BTMM gurus who can help me with this???
THE GOOD
• Completely got rid of the over 100 spam emails I was getting every day.
• Got push mail synched across mac pro, macbook pro and iphone.
• Forward my me@mydomain email to me@me.com and I receive mail through me.com and reply through mydomain.com on all my devices
• Synched my address book and calendar across all 3 devices.
THE BAD
• Got a kernel panic requiring a force quit every time I tried to reply to mail - solved by logging off mobile me and logging in again and logging out of and into system again
• Mails were not previewing in the view window when the title was clicked in the mail list - only the header was showing until I double clicked the mail then a new window would open which did not show the mail either but the mail would then show in the original preview window - solved using same method as above.
• Having synched my mac pro to mobile me, it suddenly decided it had never been synched. When I went to synch it again it told me a machine with this name had already been synched on my account and I couldn't synch 2 computers with same name - in other words it thought my mac pro today was a different machine from my mac pro yesterday - I went ahead and synched it again anyway and seems to be ok so far.
THE UGLY
• Back to my mac - 8 hours spent trying to get this to work and still no luck...Got my mac pro BTMM to turn on at least but MBP at home always just says "connecting" but never getting anywhere. As part of diagnostic I brought the MBP to the office and plugged it into my ethernet hub - now BTMM is on on both machines and they can see each other in shared devices but when I try to connect from one to the other it just says "connecting" again for ages and eventually "connection failed" with no explanation as to why. BTMM is without doubt the most un-maclike application I have ever come across "it just doesn't work" from what I can tell - It's the first time I've rung applecare in a decade (and still no luck). I've tried all the troubleshooting steps and have uPnP enabled on both routers etc but with no results. It's been interesting googling my problems and seeing many threads on many forums from people all with similar problems to me - and not once have I seen a thread that actually ends in a solution - just lots of people posting "yes - I have that problem too, can anyone help?" and eventually the thread ends with no answers. It's a real shame as BTMM promises to be brilliant for me - if only it worked.
Any BTMM gurus who can help me with this???