How to Sync 2 Macs - Not Co-located ? ?

iTunes sharing would be the easiest option for your music if they're on the same subnet.

Syncing

Hi

.mac works perfectly for much of this.

http://www.apple.com/dotmac/sync.html

For iTunes, I put the iTunes library on a USB disk attached the Airport. Now all users access the same iTunes library over Air Disk.

Adam

lugesm said:

New to the Mac, but by wife and I both have them now, separated by about 50 ft.

I have read that a firewire connection between the two allows transfer of data between machines, but both of these are desktop machines; and moving them close enough together is not parctical.

What I would actually like to do is to sync iCal, iTunes,
and Address Book between the two Macs as often as needed in as simple a way as possible.

Too much to ask? Hoping . . . . .

Thanks for your help.

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The easiest is to get an Internet connection with a wireless router, set up both of your Mac's for wireless networking (if they are new, they have that built-in), and then get an Apple .mac account for $99/year for iCal and Address Book syncing. iTunes cannot be sync'ed, but you can share your songs over the network.

Or go to a bookstore, and buy one of the many fine books about Mac OSX. "Mac OS X Tiger Edition - The Missing Manual" by David Pogue for example would be a good resource to help you with questions like this.

lugesm said:

Thanks for your comments and support.

I looked into .mac and decided that would solve most of the problem,
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To be honest, I had a lone macbook that worked superb and when I bought an Imac 24" i thought it was time for .Mac so I purchased that. I have had nothing but trouble when trying to sync 2 macs, the stupidist thing I ever did was to sync the keychains!

When I got the 24" imac I cloned the macbook using firewire so everything went across to the imac including the keychain, then when i tried to sync for the first time with .mac it gave me an option to use .mac keychain (which I did as I had just updated it) then BOTH Macs started to play up. Sorry but I cant remember the exact errors but it was along the lines of incorrect passwords and when I wanted to add further passwords it would not store them in the keychain.
At one point (and this realled p*ssed me off) i opened up the system prefs and i had a recurring box telling me that the keychain couldnt be accessed or was corrupt, gave me some error code. So i opened up the keychain and verified it, cleaned it, scrubbed it with fairy liquid, you name it I did it and at no time did it say the keychain was faulty.
But when I returned to open up system prefs the error returned.
Well thanks alot Mac (they just work) mmmm course, I ended up deleting the keychain on both macs.
To this day I still get some quirky error regarding the keychain or some password issue, obviously i dont sync my keychain anymore......
Rant off.

imho I think at £70 .mac is not value for money, I only purchased it as they were selling it off at Toysrus and I purchased for £29 just before Apple announced the increase in storage space so this was value for me. I wont renew it if it costs more than £50 in future though.