New MobileMe Calendar Officially Launched

[tigress666]

Lots of people reminding others to backup before the upgrade. But after the upgrade and all you calendars have moved from "On My Mac" to "xxx@me.com" then good old back via file/export/ical archive, which used to create a single file with a date in the name, no longer works as you no longer have any data on your Mac. The only way to do this is to export each calendar separately.

See http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4226

They nicely describe an unworkable process

No kidding! That's ridiculous! I just tried an experiment to test it out.

I backed up my calendar and then changed one thing on it afterwards. I restored back to the backup, and it immediately connected to mobileme and undid my restore back to the changed version.

I tried telling it not to synch my calendar. Still would change it back to the changed version.

I tried signing off of mobile me! It still changed my changed version.

That is the most ridiculous change! It's worse than the change they did to ical a while back where if you wanted to enter a new entry it did not put you into the edit screen, you had to hit control-i (for get info) to actually edit your new entry (if you make a new entry, wouldn't you already want to be editing it?!).

Apple really sux at calendar programs. What sux is they seem to get *worse* with each change, not better. Of coures not been a fan of their software in general (mostly their OS's). But wtf?!!! Who the hell thought that was a *good* *feature* to enter in their new calendar?!

*bangs head against wall*.

(I will note I have seen one advantage but not sure it's worth it, it does seem to update the calendar faster on my mac and iphone. Like as soon as I make the change, unlike with the old calendar that could take a while to see the change on my other stuff. Which is nice. But I fail to see why we lost so much other functionality and had such a buggy switch over that many people lost any info that was over a month old).

 

[anjonjp]

MobileMe not syncing properly since update

Nice interface for iCal on MobileMe.

HOWEVER!

Since this update, MobileMe has not been syncing properly and especially to the iPad. For some reason, contacts and iCal are particularly affected. Syncing between my iPod Touch 2G, iPhone4 and the Macbook are of no issue, however the ipad has stopped cooperating. No changes were made to the iPad or any device. The only thing I did was accept the change on MobileMe browser version.


UPDATE: Thanks to a couple of previous posts that I hadn't seen (ahem...sorry), I have been able to work out the issue and create an CalDav account as per Apple's instructions. Things on my iPad are now seemingly back to normal. I still can't understand why Apple didn't do this when 4.2 comes out and/or send the instructions on what to do to all MobileMe account holders. Their lack of consideration and common courtesy is sometimes mind boggling.

 

[kimberleyallen]

Mobile Me Upgrade

I was about to upgrade my Mobile Me calendar but then read that it no longer supports groups so aborted. I have multiple calendars that I keep in groups for ease of switching on and off. Is there an alternative way of doing this if I go ahead with the upgrade or is it just not worth the grief?

 

[jebbe]

I was about to upgrade my Mobile Me calendar but then read that it no longer supports groups so aborted. I have multiple calendars that I keep in groups for ease of switching on and off. Is there an alternative way of doing this if I go ahead with the upgrade or is it just not worth the grief?

I don't know where you read that they don't use groups anymore cause its nit true at all.

 

[Peter Harrison]

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The picture appears to show it running on an iPhone, but you can't log in to MobileMe on an iPhone, unless I've missed something?

That's just the Calendar app. The image is just showing all devices at once to illustrate that the MobileMe calendar syncs and works with the official Calendar apps on the iPad and iPhone as well.

 

[Biscuit411]

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If the second part of that sentence is true, this is pointless for those of us who don't have SL installed everywhere.

I paid for mobileme mostly for sharing the calendars on multiple macs and iphones with different and old OS versions... so the new version will never be of use for me

THIS!!!! I have three older Mac devices (MacPro, iPod Touch, iPhone) that will not support this update. My wife and I use Calendar exclusively, but now will be looking elsewhere. Upgrading everything would cost over $1000. Thanks Apple! :-(

 

[K.B.]

The groups thing is really annoying. I use to to organize the different business calendars I keep going so I don't have to see them all and don't have to have 24 character names for each of them... and now it's gone?

THANKFULLY, when I did the upgrade I didn't lose anything that I can tell anyway.

Sorry, but what's the advantage of this change? I'm sure it's part of the cloud initiative coming soon and all that but I just don't see it right now.

This seems to just make it harder for people with multiple calendars.

Anyone know of a tutorial that gives me a reason why I should like this 'upgrade'?