Sidebar Sidebar
Become a MacRumors Supporter for $50/year with no ads, ability to filter front page stories, and private forums.

Keep laptop and desktop in sync

S

Soverc

macrumors member
Original poster
Oct 7, 2005
55
1
I have searched but found nothing. Certain I can not be the only one wanting to do this. I would like to keep MAIL, Contacts and the documents folder in sync between a laptop and desktop.

One thought is useing CVS on desktop and have the laptop checkin and out. This seems like a messy way to go.

I would love to bring laptop home, turn on, it synchs and I use desktop, I put laptop to sleep and prior to sleep it checks in and syncs up.

Am I asking for to much ?
 
I use .Mac for this very purpose. It even has the ability to sync more information than you asked for but the downside is the fact it's only 1GB of space in total. This can be doubled but at a hefty price and the base .Mac package is hardly cheap to start with. Maybe look into it all the same. :)
 
yeh now one bad side about .mac THEY DONT SUPPORT WINDOWS 2003, anywho i also would like to know this answer, im sure theres software out there to do it
 
semaja2 said:
yeh now one bad side about .mac THEY DONT SUPPORT WINDOWS 2003, anywho i also would like to know this answer, im sure theres software out there to do it
Click to expand...

Why would it?

It's called .mac
 
yeh well some parts of .mac such as the idisk has a windows version so you can sync files accross the 2, but as i said it wont run on my pc becuase of its windows version
 
semaja2 said:
yeh now one bad side about .mac THEY DONT SUPPORT WINDOWS 2003, anywho i also would like to know this answer, im sure theres software out there to do it
Click to expand...

What's Windows 2003? Do you mean 2000?
 
You can access your iDisk through the web now through IE. No need for installing anything on your PC so I guess that should work in 2003.

Go to www.mac.com and look for iDisk in the left hand column. Click the little global icon next to it, you'll be prompted for .mac username and password, and you'll have access to the iDisk - upload and download.
 
Without .mac

Anyone doing this without .mac ? Not a matter of money, I would just prefer not to have client info and billing on someone elses machine.

Has anyone used CVS for what I am wanting to do ?
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Register on MacRumors! This sidebar will go away, and you'll see fewer ads.
Top Bottom
Back