Apple upgrading .Mac Service for Leopard Release--Affects "Tiger" and possibly "Panther" Users
Apple posted the following note for .Mac members:
"Due to scheduled maintenance of the .Mac Sync service beginning on October 19, 2007, members are unable to sync Safari Bookmarks or Mac OS X Address Book contacts to the www.mac.com website. We apologize for any inconvenience. Normal service will be restored ASAP. Read more for interim solutions.
Due to scheduled maintenance of the .Mac Sync service beginning on October 19, 2007, you may receive a dialogue asking "What would you like to do for this first sync?"
If you have received this dialogue, and have not recently reset your data on .Mac or registered your computer for syncing with .Mac, you can safely select to Merge data on your computer and .Mac. You may have to perform this step once on each computer that is syncing with .Mac."
However, we have not yet received nor seen the note posted by MacFixit that some .Mac sync functions will no longer work with Mac OS X less than version 10.4.10.
"Apple says 'to ensure (.Mac) uninterrupted service,' users should be running Mac OS X 10.4.10 or later. If you are running a previous version of Mac OS X 10.4.x (Tiger), you may receive the message '.Mac Sync Client is out of date.'
If you are still running Mac OS X 10.3.9, you will no longer be able to sync calendars between a Mac OS X 10.3.x-based Mac and a Mac OS X 10.4.x-based Mac. Syncing calendars between two Mac OS X 10.3.x-based Macs will still be possible."
We have three .Mac accounts. [Update: The new .Mac limitations are contained in this Apple support article.] [Bill Fox]
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