Is .Mac worth it?

CaptSaltyJack · CaptSaltyJack #1 (**permalink**)

04-23-2007, 03:12 PM

It's $99/year, to keep everything in sync and I believe access it from the .Mac web site. I'm not sure how I feel about publishing personal information to a server like that. It's too bad OS X doesn't come with a built in sync option.

With my current WinXP setup (which I'm phasing out soon), I have a desktop and a laptop, both XP Pro. The laptop is networked with the desktop, and certain folders are marked as "Make Available Offline," so before I hit the road with the laptop, I sync, and I'm ready to go. Any changes I make to files on the laptop can be sync'd when I get back home. Why the heck doesn't OS X have this built in????

PapaNoHair · PapaNoHair #2 (**permalink**)

04-23-2007, 05:02 PM

This is a very popular subject: here is the latest thread and it contains other threads as well. You can spend quite a bit of time reading up on this. It is a very good question - one I labored with before deciding to go with .mac. I love it! Welcome to Mac!

Do a lot of people have a .Mac account?

CaptSaltyJack · CaptSaltyJack #3 (**permalink**)

04-23-2007, 05:12 PM

Thanks for the welcome!

All I really want to do is sync mail/contacts/calendar between a Mac Pro and a MBP. I bet I can do this by just copying data files via Terminal somehow.. hmm. Then I could just make it into a shell script to determine which machine has the latest version of a mailbox, and figure out which direction to copy the file.

rogerinlondon · rogerinlondon #4 (**permalink**)

04-24-2007, 11:24 AM

Get a mail-account that is IMAP-enabled and you will at least solve the problem with using e-mail on two machines.

CaptSaltyJack · CaptSaltyJack #5 (**permalink**)

04-24-2007, 11:26 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by rogerinlondon

Get a mail-account that is IMAP-enabled and you will at least solve the problem with using e-mail on two machines.

Yeah I dunno, something about storing ALL my personal mail on a server kinda weirds me out. But I suppose using .Mac is no different.

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CaptSaltyJack #1 (permalink)
Member Since: Apr 15, 2007 Posts: 262	04-23-2007, 03:12 PM It's $99/year, to keep everything in sync and I believe access it from the .Mac web site. I'm not sure how I feel about publishing personal information to a server like that. It's too bad OS X doesn't come with a built in sync option. With my current WinXP setup (which I'm phasing out soon), I have a desktop and a laptop, both XP Pro. The laptop is networked with the desktop, and certain folders are marked as "Make Available Offline," so before I hit the road with the laptop, I sync, and I'm ready to go. Any changes I make to files on the laptop can be sync'd when I get back home. Why the heck doesn't OS X have this built in????
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PapaNoHair #2 (permalink)
Member Since: Jul 18, 2006 Location: Florida Posts: 2,180	04-23-2007, 05:02 PM This is a very popular subject: here is the latest thread and it contains other threads as well. You can spend quite a bit of time reading up on this. It is a very good question - one I labored with before deciding to go with .mac. I love it! Welcome to Mac! Do a lot of people have a .Mac account?
	QUOTE Thanks

rogerinlondon #4 (permalink)
Member Since: Sep 02, 2006 Location: London, England Posts: 397 Mac Specs: MacPro 2,66GHz 10GB RAM NV 8800GT Cinema 30" * MBP 15" Glossy 2.33 GHz 2 Duo 3GB RAM 160GB HD	04-24-2007, 11:24 AM Get a mail-account that is IMAP-enabled and you will at least solve the problem with using e-mail on two machines.
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