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What is the best way to sync 2 macs?

I am after a piece of software that will sync all my email, photos, itunes, addresses and iCal. I have MobileMe but it doesn't go far enough.

Chronosync seems to be the best so far.
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bdegrande | 3 years, 2 months ago
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I use SuperSync for iTunes, It maintains the metadata. www.supersync.com It works on WIndows as well as Macs,

For everything else I use Driobox. https://www.getdropbox.com/referrals/NTExODU0NDk

You get 2GB free and can get 50GB for $10 a month or $100 a year. It syncs anything you put into its folder automatically, maintains a backup in its server, and keeps a record of previous versions so you can revert to an older version or get back a file that was deleted. Works on Mac, Windows, and Linux.

Another more manual approach is to do a Time Machine backup on one machine and restore from it to the other,

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robbrown | 3 years, 2 months ago
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The best way to sync anything is to decentralize it.

There are a ton of "in the cloud" services that can help you. Generally, Google is your friend in this arena and short of iTunes can provide all of the services you need for free.

email
http://www.gmail.com
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photos
Picassa along with Google Photos
http://picasa.google.com/mac/

addresses and iCal
Google Contacts
http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2008/09/google-contacts.html

Google Calendar
http://www.google.com/calendar/

By using services that maintain storage online, each workstation (mac or pc) simply becomes a client. You don't necessarily have to do all of your work online but storing data online is handy.

Google Mail is a great example of this. Since I switched over to using Google Mail for my domains, I email is seamlessly synced in Outlook on my PC, on my Mac and on my Blackberry, plus I can use the google mail web based client in a pinch at a public terminal.

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spider070 | 3 years, 2 months ago
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I always use mobileme for the little stuff (ie: contacts, ical, etc.) and then hook up a firewire from one mac to the other and drag and drop my entire iTunes library whenever I make major changes.

BUT - to sync just the changes you've made to your itunes library: there's always iTLU
http://itlu.ownz.ch/wordpress/

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jv88011 | 3 years, 1 month ago
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using a firwire to connect both of the systems together along with the migration assistant would allow you to do the transfer. also creating a network with the systems would allow you to use both systems as well.

refer to:
http://support.apple.com/kb/index?page=answerlink&url=http%3A%2F%2Fsupport.apple.com%2Fkb%2FHT3322&answerid=16777216&src=support_site.results.search

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