ee99ee :: Blog

So I have two Macs: My Macbook that I take to class and various wifi hotspots (read: Panera Bread) with me, and my PowerMac G5 desktop. Currently I connect my 23″ Apple Cinema to my Macbook when I’m home and sit here and work. I would like to be able to fire up the Macbook at home and “sync” it up with my desktop so that I can revert to using my desktop for the major work I do here — web development and business operations.

Honestly, I haven’t used my PowerMac in about two months and I intend to soon spend some time updating all the applications and bringing it up to speed with what I use on my Macbook today. So, that aside; how can I sync the various data elements I use on each system with each other? Here is what I use:

• Apple Mail
• iTunes
• OmniFocus
• Documents
• Address Book
• iPhoto

What I do not want to do is purchase a .Mac account because I don’t think it’ll do anywhere near what I need. Additionally, I have nearly 1GB of mail within Apple Mail, and I’m not happy using IMAP. Not only does it slow the updates down from the server, in my experience, but it eats up server space.

If anyone has any suggestions on how I can smoothly sync these, let me know! Syncing mail is the most important to me. I want to be able to view my mail on both systems, and if I read a message on system A show it as read on system B. Thinking about this more and more, perhaps IMAP is the way I’ll have to go. I’m just concerned that with the massive amount of mail I have that accessing mail will be very slow and will cause a great deal of overhead on the server.

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