AppleInsider Staff"Please help test MobileMe automatic syncing," Apple told developers in release notes accompanying Mac OS X 10.5.6 build 9G35, a copy of which has been plastered online by HMBT. "We are particularly interested in testing automatic sync on portable computers and on networks with medium to high latency and or constrained bandwidth."
The Mac maker also requested feedback on MobileMe syncing from users who may reside behind firewalls, asking they watch for excessive syncing and file radars for any abnormal syncs.
"If you have auto sync turned on, and you make a change from me.com, or MobileMe website, does that change sync within a reasonable amount of time?," the company asked. "Also attempt general syncing of Contacts, Calendars, Bookmarks and other sync data."
As AppleInsider noted last month when Apple first began testing Mac OS X 10.5.6, the list of focus areas for developers is the most extensive yet for a Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard maintenance release. The leaked seed notes reveal a whopping 80 system components in which testers have been asked to pay special attention.
With Tuesday's seeding, the list of bug fixes expected as part of Mac OS X 10.5.6 has grown to nearly 90. The most recent corrections address issues with multi-touch commands in the Finder, USB device disconnects, MobileMe syncing preferences, Keychain Access and File Sync.
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I wonder if this means it'll actually work somewhat decently.
Oh, and did it mention anything about connecting to windows computers on a LAN? 10.5.5 still doesn't do that reliably for me.
Dropbox works a thousand times better than iDisk ever has, and that's what I'll be sticking with.
The only solution for me right now is to turn of mobile me sync.
I used to sync between my iMac, Powerbook and iPhone but after a while it started to act strange. After trying out all tips you can think of I have now turned the thing of.
An expensive solution that does not work!
I want to see the menubar and the iTunes dashboard widget added as focus areas; they're the main bugs I'm still aware of. Oh and display updating in Word 2008; I don't know what is at fault with that but it irks me rather.
With Snow Leopard and Exchange support it might be 'ditch Office' time .
The only solution for me right now is to turn of mobile me sync.
I used to sync between my iMac, Powerbook and iPhone but after a while it started to act strange. After trying out all tips you can think of I have now turned the thing of.
An expensive solution that does not work!
I hope this update clears up the bulk of their problems. We all knew that they launched
at what they considered the perfect timing, despite the fact that more bugs than usual
were in the mix.
I've been lucky, and mine has worked very well . . . until last week when about two hundred
calendar entries decided that the category they were in needed to be duplicated,
and some of them sync'd to one copy and some to the other. I had to manually set them
to the correct category (which you can only do in iCal or online, not on the iPhone, for some
reason) and delete the rogue category. VERY ANNOYING! (And it made
my wrists hurt!)
Sorry to sound like a snit, but I consider myself very lucky that most things really do 'just work' for me. Even during the height of the MobileMe disaster, I found it to be a very reliable service. I have two computers and an iPhone, plus my wife's computer and iPhone that all sync very well and near instantaneously. I've checked out all the other services that people say are supposedly better, and I guarantee you that when MobileMe works (and always has for us), those services are NOT better.