Panther Feature? 'Home on iPod'

[Phil Of Mac]

One sync problem I had with my iPod is, when I bought my new PowerBook, I synced my iPod with it, but instead of my full iCal on the iPod overwriting the blank iCal on my PowerBook, the blank iCal on my PowerBook overwrote the full iCal on the iPod, so I had no calendar.

 

[panphage]

Originally posted by Phil Of Mac
One sync problem I had with my iPod is, when I bought my new PowerBook, I synced my iPod with it, but instead of my full iCal on the iPod overwriting the blank iCal on my PowerBook, the blank iCal on my PowerBook overwrote the full iCal on the iPod, so I had no calendar.

as far as I've been able to tell, the iPod is a one-way street. You can sync the Pod's data to another computer, but you can't sync the computer to the pod's data. Maybe that's just the music side...

 

[LimeLite]

The real question would be, can you use this feature to sync two home directories on two different computers? Meaning, if I had a desktop and a portable, could I use the external drive to sync the two together, or would I only be able to access the directory of one while it was off of the external drive?

I don't expect anyone to know, I just think it would be useful to be able to sync two computers completely, just by plugging in a drive.

 

[Porshuh944turbo]

sorry to burst you hopefulls

This feature is NOT included on 7B85 (GM Panther).. sorry folks. It sure would be cool and would be a really great expansion of FileVault (which is pretty cool btw)...

The Accounts Pane no longer has the "Store home directory" selection.. they have removed it. Probably something didn't get finished and it got pulled... bugs that weren't worked out in time... who knows. we'll see it soon tho I'm sure...

 

[Porshuh944turbo]

10.3 is great btw

 

[Ibjr]

Originally posted by beerguy
I'm sure it was pulled because it's a huge security risk.

The iDisk offline syncing gives basically the same functionality without giving your CFO the ability to leave the company financials on a train somewhere.

Hyserical. You think a company that pushed 80211, even after the Berkeley people found huge encryption holes, care that much about security. End users that secure their system, not apple.