Michal Ždanský Even before the advent of iCloud, synchronization via a Google account was an interesting alternative to MobileMe, which, unlike this service, was free. We wrote about Google account options in earlier article. But now iCloud is here, which is also free and works great, so why not use it?
Probably the most important items to synchronize are the calendar and contacts, while the calendar was easy to synchronize via Google, it was more complicated with Contacts and it didn't always work perfectly. So we want to move to iCloud, but how do we do it while keeping the old data?
Kalendář
- First, you need to add an iCloud account. If iCal doesn't prompt you to do so on startup, you need to add the account manually. Via the menu in the top bar iCal -> Preferences (Preferences) we get to the settings accounts (Showcase) and using the + button under the list of accounts, we call up the menu where we select iCloud. Then just fill in your Apple ID and password (it matches your iTunes credentials).
- Now you need to export the current calendar from Google (or another account). Click on the menu Calendars in the upper left corner, a menu of calendars from your account will appear. Right-click on the calendar you want to export and select from the context menu Export… (Export…)
- Now you just need to choose where the exported file will be saved. Remember this location.
- Select in the top menu File -> Import -> Import… (File -> Import -> Import…) and select the file you exported a while ago.
- iCal will ask us which calendar we want to add the data to, we select one of the iCloud calendars
- At the moment we have two calendars with identical dates, so we can safely delete the Google account (iCal -> Preferences -> Accounts, with the "-") button
Contact
With contacts, it's a little more complicated. This is because if you did not choose an account for synchronization with Google as the default, the newly saved contacts on the iDevice were only stored internally and were not synchronized with Google contacts. If this is your case, I recommend using a free app, for example PhoneCopy, which is available for Mac, iPhone and iPad. Back up your contacts to the server on your iPhone, and then sync them from the server to your computer on your Mac. This should get all the contacts created into your Address Book.
- If necessary, add an iCloud account similar to the calendar. for iCloud, check account activation and On My Mac (On My Mac) tick off Synchronize with Google (or with Yahoo)
- In the tab In general (Generalv preferences select iCloud as the default account.
- Export contacts via the menu File -> Export -> Directory Archive. (File -> Export ->Addressbook Archive)
- Now through the menu File -> Import (File -> Import) select the archive you created. The application will ask if you want to overwrite the contacts. Overwrite them, this will keep them in your iCloud account.
- Now just select v on the iDevice Settings sync contacts via iCloud and you're done.
The instructions are intended for OSX Lion 10.7.2 a iOS 5
I would like to ask how it is with iWork and iCloud on Mac. I don't have an iPhone or iPad, but I would still like to use iCloud. But I don't see anywhere how to upload the document there. Even if I drag it from the finder window to the browser, nothing.
Not possible yet, there will be an update or a new iWork. I'm using iwork.com for now.
Don't you know if we Snow Leopard + iOS users will get at least some benefit from iCloud?
Probably none…
Reportedly, the 10.6.9 update for SL should be released and it should bring iCloud for Snow Leopard users as well. But who knows when it will come out.
Hm, but this is probably how it works in Lion, isn't it? Because I don't have a calendar type on SL iCloud... :(
Unfortunately, it only works on OS X Lion
I also wanted to switch to iCloud from MobileMe yesterday, but during the wizard it struck me that iCloud cannot synchronize, among other things, Keychains, and that surprised me, because I use it very often. So, in my case, I have no reason to switch to iCloud until the middle of next year, when MobileMe is canceled. I don't know why they cut it like that :(((
iDisk will also cancel, MobileMe Gallery too, I will also wait to switch from MobileMe
if you're only interested in idisk and mobile me gallery, you'll keep it - I've switched to iCloud and I log in to mobile me normally, it's just that for those things that have gone under iCloud, it says that I should log in separately to iCloud... and iDisk, MobileMe Gallery and iWeb runs until next summer...
I don't have the option of iCloud in iCal when I add an account. Is there an update needed? I have iCal version 5.0.
You need to have Mac OS X Lion with yesterday's update to version 10.7.2.
What if I want to have the calendars synchronized everywhere - i.e. iP, Mac, iCloud, Google?
While for me iPhone and Google calendar are important for input - I use the calendar on my Mac only for overview and iCloud seems like a good backup.
As for contacts. How to have the local directory synchronized with iCloud? If I make the adjustment according to your recommendation, then I will only use the iCloud one, but the local one will not be synchronized with it. Or I missed something. Thanks for any response :)
Hello.
When I enable iCloud backup, it says "backup failed". I guess I won't join. I have about 5 Gb free from 5Gb. I didn't get anything recorded.
I have all emails, passwords, etc. entered and everything enabled.
Why that? What with this? Don't you know please?
I updated and set up after the news arrived. Everything works as it should, only the iPhone backup always reports an error. I haven't been able to fine-tune it yet (probably it's not completely fine-tuned yet). However, if "backup to iCloud" is checked in iTunes while the iPhone is connected, and you perform a backup on the iPhone, even though the iPhone reports an error message, iTunes restores the backup time to the current one and it looks like a new backup is made...
I would also like to ask for a response from the cloud as well - a plan of how to create a group calendar... then I only understood everything that I have a personal backup/synchronization of everything, but how to share it?
And if we didn't synchronize with Google and the synchronization only took place via iTunes, do I also have to back it up on Google first in such a complicated way, or can it simply be synchronized with iCloud and it will take care of everything by itself?
Dekuji
Has anyone found anything about it? It also seems unnecessarily complicated to me, when I used to synchronize contacts only via iTunes via wire...
It's a bit off topic, but it concerns iCloud: Does anyone know if iCloud can also be used with gmail, as messages will be sent as if from an email with an extension …@Gmail.com and also if someone sends me an email to that gmail address so that it comes to icloud? In short, how to keep your existing mail from Google and at the same time use the benefits of iCloud.
Please help
forward it to the @me.com email from gmail and set an alias on @me.com with a gmail address, I have it like that too, I send from the list to gmail and from gmail to the cloud
Hello,
do i need a mac for icloud? Or does it also work on a "normal" PC?
M.
PhotoStream only iPhoto or Aperure, so Mac, the rest outside of iWork and wokynka via internet browser.
Of course, iCloud also works with Windows, except for the iWork package. Here is the setup http://www.apple.com/icloud/setup/pc.html
Mary-Jane: iCloud only works with machines running iOS and Mac OS X Lion. So not on Windows ("normal" = probably Win, right?).
bekman: Yes, there was some hint of iCloud in the SL update, but when it wasn't advertised and released today, I doubt it at all.
Updated Aperture 3.2 on SL does not support iCloud (and on Lion it does).
I have such a crazy problem. When I add to the iCloud address book, it tells me that the contacts will be moved to iCloud, but that doesn't happen and all the contacts in "my mac" are just deleted and an empty iCloud group appears. Well, when I do the import, it turns off in the iCloud address book (learn to delete) and the import is done in the "my mac" folder. So I am able to get the contacts to iCloud. Does anyone have this problem too?
So I answered myself. The problem is that you need to export the vCard and not the Address Book Archive. Then the vCard is imported into iCloud without any problem.
I would like to have a question, purely out of curiosity... could someone do the math for me - my basic math is not enough for this... if there are x iDevices in the world and let's say that each device would be used by its owner only in the base capacity of 5GB, I am not considering a subscription to increase the space, how much is the figure for the necessary space in Cuppertin or where they have it buried :) thank you
I think the 5GB is for the account and not for the device (correct me if I'm wrong). So if you have a Mac, iPhone and iPad, you have 5GB. So, depending on the device, it is not possible to calculate much, we will wait until Apple boasts about the number of iCloud users at a keynote =)
I have a couple of questions:
Where can I find photos from photostream on my PC? Is there any way to control where I want it to send them?
It doesn't work for me to leave a post on my iPod after setting up an email on @me.com. I receive them just fine, but sending a letter from p05-imap.mail.me.com failed. Adding other servers to p02 or p04 does not affect it.
Thanks for the advice, if anyone knows how to deal with these problems :-)
When setting up a backup via Wi-Fi on iCloud, will the backup be performed by itself and will it be arranged in peace and on the network? I tried manually typing iCloud backup/save and backups/backup and it said: There was an error while backing up. Please try again later.
For photostream on Windows, it is necessary to download the "iCloud Control Panel" utility from Apple's website. After installing it, you can set a directory where photos from iCloud Photo Stream will be saved.
Thanks, the photos are now working as they should :-)
Otherwise, with the non-functioning sending of mail via @me.com from the iPod and the failure of the Wi-Fi backup to iCloud, does anyone know anything?
Hi, I don't quite understand it.
I would like to have one perfect Google Contacts address book, because I intend to stay with gmail for a while before I set up me.com (but I can't think of why I should do that yet).
So how to set the main address book to be on Google and to be synchronized with all services.. I want it with
iCloud
iPhone / iPad
Mac Address Book
PS: How does it differ when I select the account "On my Mac" in the Address Book 6.1 application and synchronize it with Google, or when I delete this address book and add a new account via Google Exchange, which I use successfully on the iPhone.
Is the data synchronized exactly the same on both sides or is there some difference?
I also have a Google email and just transferred the contacts to iCloud. Somehow I don't understand why it is necessary to have contacts on google always synchronized with the phone. Deleting your account doesn't make your contacts disappear from Gmail, if that's what you're after.
As for the difference between syncing with Google and Google Exchange, the only difference is that Exchange doesn't support custom item names, so you can't make "wife" or "iPhone" instead of "mobile" or "work" for a number.
For me, this contact synchronization with Google is about... So that when I change something in the contacts on the iPhone/iPad/Mac/iCloud, so that the changes are immediately reflected in Google, so that I can count on finding it in all devices and websites the same contact information.
How do you solve it when you're only on iCloud?
How should I do this when my wife and I have 2 iPhones and an iPad at home. I would like everything to be synchronized into one respect, but we have two respects.
Is there a way to connect it?
I understand you a bit, I would probably also like to have Photostream, applications and search for iPhone on one account, but I want to have contacts and emails separately.
We have gmail and sync to ios turned off for contacts and emails. What you do not understand?
well then it's simple, set your Apple ID everywhere :) I'll have it set up like this too..
Does anyone know how to completely sleep Safari bookmarks on iCloud? The point is that iCloud duplicated them for me about 3 times recently and it was a terrible mess. So I also turned off customs and told myself that I would wait for the ofiko version and they were supposed to delete all the beta accounts, but that didn't happen and there is still the messed up version on iCloud and the mac and iphone only offer me to "merge". because I don't want to... I would like to overwrite what is on iCloud with what I have on my computer or in iOS... :-(
So far, maximum satisfaction with the cloud.
It just works... http://dl.dropbox.com/u/200161/ap/cmail.png :(
… all day long …
Hello. What do iOS notes sync with on a mac?
It keeps saying "Failed to iCloud backup" in the settings, I just can't turn on iCloud backup. give it to a friend, I don't understand why not me.
Pls help.
It didn't work for me a couple of times, but I managed to do it tonight, so it's possible that Apple's servers are gradually allowing it.
1) Do bookmarks in iCloud represent archiving/synchronization of bookmarks from the Safari browser, or "only" from iOS devices?
2) If one Apple ID is used by several people (for example in a family due to purchased apps such as navigation and similar), what does this mean in practice? Will shared Mail, Calendar and Contacts data be accessible on all devices? In this case, iCloud seems unusable to me.
1) Unfortunately I don't know, I don't use Safari on Mac
2) It is exactly as you describe it. My father also had to create his own Apple ID for this very reason so that we wouldn't share our calendars. You can set the ID for iCloud yourself, it has nothing to do with signing in to the App Store.
so there are different accounts for iCloud and App Store on one iOS device?? that's fantastic, thanks for the reply.)
Yes, I even think that they can set different accounts for AppStore, iCloud, FaceTime, GameCenter, iMessage, Search for friends, etc.
Use a common Apple ID to purchase apps, but create a separate Apple ID for each family member for iCloud. Or - you can use a completely different Apple ID for iCloud than the one you use for purchases.
Does anyone know how it will be with iTunes in Cloud? They don't work for me yet.
I did that again. I switched to iCloud yesterday. Still a problem today. Wrong password, broken email. When it happens to be going so great, but overall it was ok only for a while. I guess the guys didn't estimate their servers and somehow it's crashing. If you don't want complications, wait.
Don't panic, everything works as it should: iPad 2, iPhone 4, Air 13″“
When the bastard finally downloads my emails today, I'll agree. You'd think that after they've been sticking up for MobileMe from the beginning, they'd be careful about that introduction now.
is this a @me.com problem? Because gmail works fine for me, I don't have any problems with emails.
I completely agree with you, I haven't had any problems with Apple so far, but after 12 hours of fighting for an email to be sent to me via iCloud, I'm desperate. It works normally via Gmail, but it won't send via me.com. If someone could advise me on this, I would be very grateful.
I have the same problem. I can send emails from the me.com domain from the web interface via iCloud, but I can't do it in the mail.app on the Mac :/ receiving emails is, of course, no problem.
Ipad 2 somehow I have no idea how to arrange the weather and kacie how the hell..?
Will he also do a review for PC?
The problem is that most of us have Macs. I use the PC only sporadically.
Probably the only reasonable way to get iCloud support even for Snow Leopard is to send a polite letter directly to Apple. The more of us there are, the greater the chance that they won't sweep it under the table. http://www.apple.com/feedback/icloud.html
I personally bought Lion, installed it, and unfortunately uninstalled it again, because 75% of the software that keeps me alive doesn't work under it. And it seems unethical to me how Apple cheated its loyal customers who use Snow Leopard for various reasons.
Maybe an unnecessary question, but how do I mark a document on a Mac that I want to sync in the Cloud? I understand that it automatically synchronizes what I already have, or I upload to an IP or to an iPad, but I don't know about the Mac... Thanks Patrik
Hello, I registered a new me.com email via iCloud, which only works for sending messages, but when I send an email to me.com from another email, it comes back to me saying that the email cannot be delivered. Does anyone know what to do with it? Thanks!
How about syncing purchased music. I don't like it somehow
What happens to the me.com family when the master passes? Can others stay on me.com?
Can someone please explain to me what the "super" service PHOTO STREAM is for, when one cannot delete photos? Thanks
It will be deleted by itself after a month if you don't back it up, for example, on another device where it should also be displayed or if you don't assign it to a separate folder.
I uploaded IOS5 to iPhone4, set up an iCloud account, set up sync contacts (I do all this in the US, where I live for a long time), and when I looked at the contacts in iCloud via the web interface, the phone contacts previously entered as + 420 xxx xxx xxx hard-coded all to +1 20x-xxx-xxxx-x (ie from Czech call to American).
The same immediately re-synced to the phone, so I can manually repair about five hundred phones for the next three days.
So go ahead, send your data into the unknown, you'll just lose control over what happens to it next.
No need to do it manually. Go to icloud.com and set the automatic prefix to the Czech Republic in the settings :-). Very simple.
I upgraded my iPhone 4 to iOS 5 and activated iCloud. Since then, information about the weather appears in my calendar, but only in Paris with a forecast for 11 days. The information itself seems quite useful to me, if it were possible to edit this data on the home location. Do you know, by chance, where you can edit the synchronization of this weather data with the settings for any place in the Czech Republic? Where does iCloud sync it from??
good evening, I had my contacts and calendar syncronized in Iphoeni on Mac via iTunes. I turned off Google. then he started the cloud on both the iPhone and the Mac, but the contacts and data in the calendar were duplicated. Don't know how to remove it please?