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Kingsly

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As per my discussion here, I realize that If I have two macs the need will probably arise to sync them every so often. Although I plan to use the MB as my life machine and my iMac as a work/gaming machine, I obviously would love to check e-mail on both and share contacts, calendars, etc. One can only take so much of a 13" screen when a beautiful 20 incher is looking right at you. ;)

Also, is there an easy suggestion about what to do with my bluetooth keyboard (much preferred to the built in MB board) and wired mice. I don't want my desk so cluttered.
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swiftaw

macrumors 603
Jan 31, 2005
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Omaha, NE, USA
As per my discussion here, I realize that If I have two macs the need will probably arise to sync them every so often. Although I plan to use the MB as my life machine and my iMac as a work/gaming machine, I obviously would love to check e-mail on both and share contacts, calendars, etc. One can only take so much of a 13" screen when a beautiful 20 incher is looking right at you. ;)

Also, is there an easy suggestion about what to do with my bluetooth keyboard (much preferred to the built in MB board) and wired mice. I don't want my desk so cluttered.
Help?

.Mac
 

NorCalLights

macrumors 6502a
Apr 24, 2006
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You could copy the appropriate files by hand... that would be the cheapest way. But .Mac sure makes it easy, and the per-month cost isn't very high. Just having the iDisk is worth it to me.
 

NATO

macrumors 68000
Feb 14, 2005
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Northern Ireland
I've just purchased Chronosync on the recommendation of another fellow MacRumors reader. It's very flexible - You can set up rules to sync as many or as little files as you want.

It's made syncing the laptop and desktop Macs a breeze...
 

prostuff1

macrumors 65816
Jul 29, 2005
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Don't step into the kawoosh...
You could try Chronosync which should allow you sync stuff between computers. I use it to keep a thumb drive in sync among my two machines. I can write a word document on my laptop and a totally different one on my desktop, and i can write something at school on the lab computers and save it to the thumb drive. Then i can set up to have chronosync do a bidirection sync on my 2 machines so that nothing gets deleted and replaced. It is jsut copied over.

It works quite well and I am considering setting it up to see if it will work over a wireless network (would not see why it would not) so that i can keep my mail on each computer looking the same. Or i might just run everything through an IMAP service type thing for my mail. I miss the IMAP from my .mac service but i can't see spending $99 a year jsut for that. Not to mention that I would want seperate IMAP accounts for each of the e-mail address i have (4 which i use regularly).

EDIT: Beat to the punch
 

Kingsly

macrumors 68040
Original poster
I've just purchased Chronosync on the recommendation of another fellow MacRumors reader. It's very flexible - You can set up rules to sync as many or as little files as you want.

It's made syncing the laptop and desktop Macs a breeze...

Fantastic! Thats just the thing I was looking for. How is it with Mail.app, Address book, and iCal? (mostly I care about mail.app)
 

phuong

macrumors 6502a
Aug 16, 2006
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Fantastic! Thats just the thing I was looking for. How is it with Mail.app, Address book, and iCal? (mostly I care about mail.app)

i don't think ChronoSync will sync iCal.
afaik it only syncs files between chosen folders of the 2 computers
also, what i would love to see is the ability to sync Firefox's bookmarks. this i believe ChronoSync can't do either
 
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