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Dotmac - vs - iCloud

by PHB2610 Jan 22, 2015 1:01AM PST

New iMac, new Macbook Pro both on Yosemite - Heavy use of Pages, several hundred documents edited on both computers resulting in SYNCHRONISATION MAYHEM AND CHAOS.
If Apple provided a wish-list service mine would be submitted immediately and would be very simple - my old iMac and laptop please, both running on Tiger with Dot.Mac. Those were the days when Apple carefully thought-out and tested anything they introduced, down to the finest detail, when changes were made for a reason and not just to keep an army of programmers/developers occupied. Since the death of Steve Jobs I have never witnessed a company lose so much of its core values and nowhere is this more evident than with Apple's iCloud system (which should be renamed as the iChaos system).
iCloud is brilliant and superb, provided you don't use it. If you INSIST on using it as I do, to keep a large library of documents in sync then you might find yourself having to devote most of your waking hours trying to understand a system that nobody at Apple seems to fully understand. With DotMac I could edit any document and then simply close my laptop lid. On arriving home the edited document would be on my iMac - no error messages, no alerts, no warnings - synchronisation without a headache. Under iCloud I will save and close the edited document on my MacBook and then later I will open the relevant document on my iMac and be greeted by a message window telling me DOCUMENTS NOT SYNCHRONISED, CHOOSE WHICH ONE TO KEEP. This is very confusing as it is being displayed by an application whose purpose in life is TO SYNCHRONISE DOCUMENTS - why is it asking me how to do this? When I rang Technical Support they gave me what seemed like an obvious answer - just keep the latest version of your document, and that's exactly what I did, until I realised that I was loosing pages and pages and pages of data. When I open the document on my iMac it automatically becomes listed as the latest version, but it has not yet synced with my laptop version, it still holds the older un-edited version of my document so if I select my iMac version as the latest version, the one to keep, I will lose an entire day's editing work. The differences between the simplicity of the old DotMac system and the chaos of iCloud are very hard to understand but I still believe in the many good aspects of Apple Computers.

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So what does this Apple person say about the cloud?
by r. proffitt Forum moderator Jan 22, 2015 1:07AM PST
http://www.cnet.com/news/woz-the-cloud-is-a-nightmare/

I guess some will fall for clouds for everything. Then it rains.
Bob
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