.Mac silliness (by )

Syncing with .Mac will add 215 contacts to your address book, delete 217, and modify none

.Mac is a suite of online tools Apple sells to go with their Mac computers. I use the thing purely because it lets my desktop and my laptop both synch various useful bits of data - bookmarks, mail accounts, stored passwords, address book entries, and my calendar.

However, sometimes the synch messes up, as the picture above suggests. When I confirmed the above change, my address book was reduced to a few contacts, plus pages of ones called "No Name" that had no details in them.

Luckily, I had a backup...

1 Comment

  • By Ben, Sat 30th Sep 2006 @ 12:13 pm

    And it's impossible to get it to answer the question "so what exactly are the changes you're going to make?" And to decide not to make the changes is a bit non-obvious, as you have to tell it to reset the device.

    "Just works" my arse.

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