Software for Mac - a sorry and confused state

[pxt]

Can you eliminate Mobile Me as your sync/backup?

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I also don't use iPhoto to store photos as I like my own system with everything from my camera automatically downloaded into a separate folder, one per day. I have used iPhoto to get selected pictures onto my iPod but it's not my main system for photo organization.

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It's a tricky thing because I use an iPhone, Mac and MobileMe and the promise of consistent features across my home and mobile hardware is what I want.

So for the moment I am crossing my fingers with MobileMe hoping they will get better, while, as the saying about the camel goes, doing lots of backup.

Regarding your photos, keeping them in simple folders gives you a simplicity that will stand in your favour if something horrible goes wrong.

Keeping our important data in systems that are 'too big to fail' is an interesting topic and there's an issue there about what we put into apps with non-standard file formats maintained by small companies.

[darlakbrown]

I have used MobileMe for many years with no issue syncing between multiple computers and devices. However, Apple released a new version of iCal and when I upgraded I not only lost a lot of data, but it cancelled a bunch of appointments and emailed my contacts automatically telling them I had cancelled our meeting. This happened twice and I spent a lot of time on the phone with apple tech and none of them could tell me why this happened.

However, having said that, I never had any problems until this past year when apple did a significant update to the way iCal works and syncs withIn MobileMe.

I always do regular backups in all my programs so I was able to restore my data.

I moved off of iCal to BusyCal for Mac, which is a much more robust calendar program for the Mac. It works better for me. But I still use iCal on the iPad and iPhone. Busy Cal syncs fine with iCal, but manages the data and invites better on my desktop.

I suggest installing Dropbox on all your devices and doing backups that way. I auto backup omnifocus to Dropbox.