I've now managed t download all the required updates and mobileme is now working for me. Push services are still lagging, although they are working. For example a calender change in my mac took about an hour to push onto my new sparkling iPhone.
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You are not alone, I can assure you! I can't log in via system prefs, but can using the same info in the web page. No push email, no push calendar. I'd rather Apple kept the whole thing offline until it was sorted out properly. I cannot believe they have allowed it to degenerate into this complete mess with some people getting updates, some not, sometimes it works, then it doesn't, some bits work but others don't...
Updated my Macbook and my Power Mac G4, but interaction with MobileMe is still flaky:
- Signing in got me an "Unknown validation error" on the G4 once, but after that I was able to sign in. Sometimes the account details come up and sometimes I get a "server error." The first time I tried to set up sync options, System Preferences crashed. I have not been able to get iDisk information from the pref panel yet.
- On my Macbook I simply cannot sign in. I get "Unknown validation error" every time.
- Signing in got me an "Unknown validation error" on the G4 once, but after that I was able to sign in. Sometimes the account details come up and sometimes I get a "server error." The first time I tried to set up sync options, System Preferences crashed. I have not been able to get iDisk information from the pref panel yet.
- On my Macbook I simply cannot sign in. I get "Unknown validation error" every time.
Well it should; it's just converting .Mac to MobileMe. You just won't be able to sign in until you open a MobileMe account.
Great, I thought I would be clever and sign out since I wasn't getting the prompt. Signed back in with the-still mac.com sysprefpane and now am told that I have an 'unknown validation error'.
Guess it'll take the weekend; at least I got my iPod Touch upgrade last night!
Guess it'll take the weekend; at least I got my iPod Touch upgrade last night!
...guy #2: "Oh, and do you think we should keep the 'cloud' reference? Isn't telling all these savvy Mac users that their stuff is in a magical cloud in the sky a bit infantile and patronizing?"
The "cloud" concept has been around for quite a while.
For example: The Internet Cloud, an article from 1999.
trouble...
I upgraded, clicked around, things were very slow, account status could not be retrieved, settings on iDisk Public folder could not be checked or changed.
Then I hit "sign out" and now I can't sign in anymore...
I'll give it a few hours for now and will then try again.
I upgraded, clicked around, things were very slow, account status could not be retrieved, settings on iDisk Public folder could not be checked or changed.
Then I hit "sign out" and now I can't sign in anymore...
I'll give it a few hours for now and will then try again.
Ha! Did exactly the same thing, using exactly the same logic - and got exactly the same result.
For Mac? That's the latest version... at least, that's what i got from software update, as well as when I downloaded it from the apple.com/safari site...
We all have them
It performs worse than .mac, and .mac didn't exactly set a high-bar. Missing iCards. Missing bookmarks. Missing the web page building application. But, its got push(which I have no real use for). Downgrade from my perspective.
I was able to get the 1.0 update on Thursday morning and the 1.1 update last night via Software Update.
Contacts pushed down to new iPhone finally late yesterday but still no calendar or bookmarks.
Pushing new contact pictures up to cloud works but they haven't been pushed down to Mac Address Book yet (an hour after I did it). Shouldn't Mail, iCal and Address Book all have received simultaneous updates? (I was only asked to close Mail during the update)
Pushing new contact pictures up to cloud works but they haven't been pushed down to Mac Address Book yet (an hour after I did it). Shouldn't Mail, iCal and Address Book all have received simultaneous updates? (I was only asked to close Mail during the update)
Someone at Apple better sh*t out an explanation why the iDisk "share" button (for creating direct links to shared items) is nowhere to be found.
They've even removed some references to it on the various info pages about iDisk on the site.
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They've even removed some references to it on the various info pages about iDisk on the site.
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I downloaded and installed about an hour ago. Everything seemed to install painlessly and everything appears to be working.
I downloaded and installed about an hour ago. Everything seemed to install painlessly and everything appears to be working.
I haven't gotten the MobileMe updater to show up on my iBook G4 (10.4.11) but on the other hand it appears to have better interaction with the MobileMe servers than my 10.5.4 systems!
No Crossover for Me yet
MobileMe is working great for me. However, I am not getting the updater at all. I've done the software update route and the clicking on .Mac route and never had a popup for the crossover. Everything else seems to be working so it's strange that this isn't available for me yet.
Perhaps it's because I'm still on Tiger. Bleh....
MobileMe is working great for me. However, I am not getting the updater at all. I've done the software update route and the clicking on .Mac route and never had a popup for the crossover. Everything else seems to be working so it's strange that this isn't available for me yet.
Perhaps it's because I'm still on Tiger. Bleh....
I can't get anything from my work machine, which uses Outlook to get pushed to MobileMe. I've told it to "Sync Now" numerous times, but none of my contacts or calender appear in MobileMe. In fact I get an error message on the calender and a button to go to MobileMe help. The problem is when I press it nothing happens. Arrggghhh...
Has ANYONE gotten things pushed from Outlook (2007) to MobileMe?!?!?
Has ANYONE gotten things pushed from Outlook (2007) to MobileMe?!?!?
Also worked for me a few hours ago and I love what I see. Been setting up the services etc... that I want and it works great. I also like the web gallery. I did notice that times were off in Calendar. So I set up the time in preferences for my mobile me account and we'll see how that goes.
Perhaps a rough start but I think IM really going to like this a lot more than dot mac. Heck I already have used more of it than I use to use on .mac!--))))
Apple will get it together with this massive change and it will be a great service for all users.
Push mail also is a really nice feature.
Works very well on my end!
I'm glad to see Apple working out the issues. It needs to be Google fast though. It needs to be snappy and responsive like Gmail or the Google Calendar. It's OK now, but it's not in the same league yet. I hope they keep improving.
I'm so glad that they decided to focus on the core services such as email, contacts, and calendaring instead of the goofy e-cards and web-builder. Really, that kids stuff can be found anywhere on the net. Now push is something worth money.
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I'm glad to see Apple working out the issues. It needs to be Google fast though. It needs to be snappy and responsive like Gmail or the Google Calendar. It's OK now, but it's not in the same league yet. I hope they keep improving.
I'm so glad that they decided to focus on the core services such as email, contacts, and calendaring instead of the goofy e-cards and web-builder. Really, that kids stuff can be found anywhere on the net. Now push is something worth money.
Ted
This thing sucks...
My calendars are an absolute mess - I have calendars on my iPhone that aren't on the web app, and none of them are in iCal (I deleted all my iCal calendars hoping to reset it) - every time I try to delete a calendar it says I can't delete the last one (even though there's about 10 on there)... There's no way to remove calendars from iPhone - OH, and... calendars appear in iTunes when I turn off push that aren't on any of them...
Anyone have any advice? I emailed the MobileMe support (because you can't call them of course) - I don't feel like I should have to wait 2 days on this!!
My calendars are an absolute mess - I have calendars on my iPhone that aren't on the web app, and none of them are in iCal (I deleted all my iCal calendars hoping to reset it) - every time I try to delete a calendar it says I can't delete the last one (even though there's about 10 on there)... There's no way to remove calendars from iPhone - OH, and... calendars appear in iTunes when I turn off push that aren't on any of them...
Anyone have any advice? I emailed the MobileMe support (because you can't call them of course) - I don't feel like I should have to wait 2 days on this!!