Dec 7, 2008 Posted by Herko on Dec 7, 2008 in All things Web | 0 comments

MobileMe design flaw

I’m an Apple Fan­boy, a switcher and a believer, but now I’ve had a nasty encounter with a flaw in the MobileMe ser­vice that is there by design. I’ve just been told that the engi­neers are aware of the issue and are work­ing to solve it.

Basi­cally, it comes down to synch­ing with the cloud. All I want to do is push the cal­en­dar data in the MobileMe cal­en­dar to my omputer at home. That’s sim­ple, you might think. But, iCal has found some ‘incon­sis­tant data’ and is refus­ing to recieve the data from the cloud.
So I set and reset every­thing, cleared my local cal­en­dars, every­thing. Noth­ing works. Apple’s Geniusses (no sar­casm intended here) tell me now that the only way to solve the prob­lem is to send my cor­rupted data to the cloud, over­writ­ing my good data, thereby reset­ting the con­nec­tion, and then synch my bad data back to my com­puter, thereby restor­ing my connection.

Ouch.

So much for gath­er­ing your vital data in the cloud.

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