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I have some problems to fix, but mostly wish I understood how these things are supposed to be working together in the first place.
I have an iMac upgraded to Lion 10.7.2, an iPhone 4S running iOS 5.0.1, and an iCloud account updated from MobileMe. I have not tried linking calendars together on these before now. There are other things like PhotoStream and Keynote that appear to sync properly.
I want to be able to enter calendar events on the phone, or the iMac, or maybe even on the iCloud web page, and have them appear exactly once on all the others. I want this for myself, not linked to anybody else and not using any other services (e.g. Google etc), what I think of as just the basic Apple synced calendar. So far this hasn't worked.
At first whatever I entered on the iMac would appear on the other two but would reappear as a duplicate on the iMac, and deleting the duplicate just causes it to appear again or delete the event everyplace. Then based on a web posting I tried clicking off the Enable button for one of the two accounts that appeared in iCal's Preferences, which stopped the duplication but also stopped the syncing to the other two locations. So, I re-enabled it, and the duplication returned but the syncing did not. Now no Enable/Disable combinations for the two accounts allow syncing.
How are these things supposed to work together? Why does iCal have two Accounts listed in Preferences, one called iCloud CalDAV, one called [email protected] CalDAV, both with iCloud icons next to them? I read on a web posting that upgrading to Lion causes a second account to appear here, but don't know which of these would be that second account. Should one of these be deleted, and if so which one? Is there a functional difference between deleting and un-Enabling an account? I hear duplicate events are often caused by multiple accounts - true?
And, why does iCal have 6 calendars: They are ON MY MAC Home, ON MY MAC Calendar, ON MY MAC Work, [email protected] Home, [email protected] Calendar, and [email protected] Work. I think in terms of one calendar because I live one life with one timeline. How do they assume people are to use these? What's my mental "model" supposed to be?
Is there a good place to read what the idea behind it all is?
Thanks!
I have an iMac upgraded to Lion 10.7.2, an iPhone 4S running iOS 5.0.1, and an iCloud account updated from MobileMe. I have not tried linking calendars together on these before now. There are other things like PhotoStream and Keynote that appear to sync properly.
I want to be able to enter calendar events on the phone, or the iMac, or maybe even on the iCloud web page, and have them appear exactly once on all the others. I want this for myself, not linked to anybody else and not using any other services (e.g. Google etc), what I think of as just the basic Apple synced calendar. So far this hasn't worked.
At first whatever I entered on the iMac would appear on the other two but would reappear as a duplicate on the iMac, and deleting the duplicate just causes it to appear again or delete the event everyplace. Then based on a web posting I tried clicking off the Enable button for one of the two accounts that appeared in iCal's Preferences, which stopped the duplication but also stopped the syncing to the other two locations. So, I re-enabled it, and the duplication returned but the syncing did not. Now no Enable/Disable combinations for the two accounts allow syncing.
How are these things supposed to work together? Why does iCal have two Accounts listed in Preferences, one called iCloud CalDAV, one called [email protected] CalDAV, both with iCloud icons next to them? I read on a web posting that upgrading to Lion causes a second account to appear here, but don't know which of these would be that second account. Should one of these be deleted, and if so which one? Is there a functional difference between deleting and un-Enabling an account? I hear duplicate events are often caused by multiple accounts - true?
And, why does iCal have 6 calendars: They are ON MY MAC Home, ON MY MAC Calendar, ON MY MAC Work, [email protected] Home, [email protected] Calendar, and [email protected] Work. I think in terms of one calendar because I live one life with one timeline. How do they assume people are to use these? What's my mental "model" supposed to be?
Is there a good place to read what the idea behind it all is?
Thanks!