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captainsblogForget all the hullabaloo about the iPhone 5. It's my recently-acquired 3GS that's giving me gigglefits.
In my 9-to-6-ish travels yesterday (through four counties, two court offices, a variety of retailers one gym and one wake), I discovered that my phone hadn't picked up the sync from Outlook of a rather important meeting in two weeks. Had I not been syncing it? This morning, I plugged it into le PC to find out. Apparently, my sync has been out of sync ever since I got the new phone and, with it, access to the Cloud.
The Cloud confuses me. All I can see is that it backs up TO the cloud, but I don't see how one retrieves the backed-up stuff FROM it. I also see, or rather saw, the warning that, if I use iTunes to sync un-Cloudily between PC and phone, Your calendars are being synced with iCloud over the air. Your calendars will also sync directly with this computer. This may result in duplicated data showing on your device.
Yeah, I'd noticed that- on the phone, at least. The same pre-trial showing up three or four times with different colored dots next to it. No biggie, though.
Until today. I hit "sync" and got a message that the sync was about to remove more than 25 percent of my entries. Should I "allow" or "ignore" this?
Silly me, thinking this was a new and improved way of removing the duplicates, I hit "allow"- and instantly erased every single stinking going-forward appointment from the Outlook calendar on my PC.
The entries that were in the phone, still were there- but anything I'd put in prior to this seemed lost. But wait! I have auto-archive enabled in Outlook! I should be able to restore to that, right?
Um, wrong. Because apparently once Steve gets done erasing all your data, he also creates a new archive file with all the new (i.e., erased) data in place of the old one.
So I've had to manually recreate every calendar entry from the remaining phone entries into Outlook- in which my default calendar is not the one that the phone recognizes for sync anymore. Which means I'm back to manually entering every entry into both Outlook and the phone. The sync is gone, it's gone so far away.
I'm sure, on some interstellar server, there's an explanation for why this Cloud shit is good for me. I've yet to encounter any aliens from that world, though.
In my 9-to-6-ish travels yesterday (through four counties, two court offices, a variety of retailers one gym and one wake), I discovered that my phone hadn't picked up the sync from Outlook of a rather important meeting in two weeks. Had I not been syncing it? This morning, I plugged it into le PC to find out. Apparently, my sync has been out of sync ever since I got the new phone and, with it, access to the Cloud.
The Cloud confuses me. All I can see is that it backs up TO the cloud, but I don't see how one retrieves the backed-up stuff FROM it. I also see, or rather saw, the warning that, if I use iTunes to sync un-Cloudily between PC and phone, Your calendars are being synced with iCloud over the air. Your calendars will also sync directly with this computer. This may result in duplicated data showing on your device.
Yeah, I'd noticed that- on the phone, at least. The same pre-trial showing up three or four times with different colored dots next to it. No biggie, though.
Until today. I hit "sync" and got a message that the sync was about to remove more than 25 percent of my entries. Should I "allow" or "ignore" this?
Silly me, thinking this was a new and improved way of removing the duplicates, I hit "allow"- and instantly erased every single stinking going-forward appointment from the Outlook calendar on my PC.
The entries that were in the phone, still were there- but anything I'd put in prior to this seemed lost. But wait! I have auto-archive enabled in Outlook! I should be able to restore to that, right?
Um, wrong. Because apparently once Steve gets done erasing all your data, he also creates a new archive file with all the new (i.e., erased) data in place of the old one.
So I've had to manually recreate every calendar entry from the remaining phone entries into Outlook- in which my default calendar is not the one that the phone recognizes for sync anymore. Which means I'm back to manually entering every entry into both Outlook and the phone. The sync is gone, it's gone so far away.
I'm sure, on some interstellar server, there's an explanation for why this Cloud shit is good for me. I've yet to encounter any aliens from that world, though.
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Date: 2012-09-15 02:34 pm (UTC)Choose one sync and stick to it. If you sync over the air to iCloud, do not sync to the PC. And vice-versa.
Personally, I wouldn't try to sync Outlook to iCloud. That way lies madness. If you are not a resident of the walled garden that is the Apple Orchard, bad things will happen. My most recent fun has been with bookmarks, which I sync between browsers with a product called XMarks. Safari bookmarks are synced to iCloud and between Apple devices. I either have two copies of everything or a bunch of empty bookmark folders.
The other trick is to regularly export the data from your calendar, bookmark list, etc. and save those files elsewhere, like on Google Drive or Dropbox.
Black candles and an occasional blood sacrifice help, too.