“A week after .Mac became MobileMe, and a day after the MobileMe team simultaneously apologized and declared the transition complete, iWeb users continue to fight insurgent errors in publishing. Users may find they are repeatedly prompted for their MobileMe name and password, that ‘damaged’ pages halt the process, or that there was simply a “.Mac” publishing error. If the publication process does succeed, published pages may not actually be published, or elements like slideshows and comments may be broken,” Charles Jade reports for Ars Technica.
“Unfortunately, there does not [yet] appear to be a fix,” Jade reports.
“Despite Apple being aware of problems with MobileMe, users should not hesitate to complain bitterly about every single ill experience via e-mail. Beyond that, there are a couple of steps iWeb users can take, the first being to make sure the recent update, version 1.1 of MobileMe, has been installed. Some iWeb users report success with ‘Publish All to .Mac,’ which republishes your entire website. Personally, I don’t recommend this, especially if you have a site with hundreds of megabytes of data. I ultimately prevailed by attempting to publish over and over until it finally worked,” Jade reports.
Full article here.
Apple, acting more and more like Microsoft every day.
Yeah, extending current members’ annual .Mac/MobileMe subscriptions by 30 days is just like Microsoft.
kenw1:
You know, what i mean: just can’t get things to work right, total f*ck up, major malfunction, poor preparation, piss poor performance, major embarrassment, constant back pedaling, lack of leadership, laughing stock – that stuff just like Microsoft.
Why is t always a Apple vs MS thing. Nothing is perfect, let it be.
They will get it going, give it a bit more time. Remember this whole thing is running on the new SproutCore web tech and as such there is bound to be a few bumps.
Remember OS X was not built in a day.
What, no scathing, biting come back from MDN? None of the usual heavy sarcasm from the Mac Defence Network, because someone dares to write an article that is suggesting Apple is less than perfect?
Cat got your tongue?
That said there is not 1 piece of MS tech in my house.
I’m just saying.
Oh, yeah, “one more thing”.
Apple’s “free” one month extension is no better than Microsoft’s Vista price drop.
See, Apple and Microsoft are very much alike.
I’ll still take Mobile Me and the 3G iPhone over ANY MS Mobile products anyday, even if all the bugs are not worked out. One thing I did find out is that if you have more than one eMail on your .Mac or Mobile Me only the primary account is push…the other eMail only accounts are Fetch only and cannot be pushed.
This is what people are paying $99 a year for?
Steves Job,
MDN posted the article, didn’t they?
They could’ve just ignored it.
But they didn’t.
That’s commentary enough.
So STFU, moron.
Perfection takes time.
Perfection takes time.
I began using iWeb to build a site a month before MobilMe, but switched to Sandvox instead. (Also tried RapidWeaver and Coda.)
No problems publishing to MobilMe with Sandvox. Everything seems to be functioning fine.
All this, and the software developer, Karelia, is now working on a MobilMe update for Sandvox to make it even more sympatico.
I love mobile me. It’s not without its bugs but for the first time I can see myself forking over $100 a year for the services I’ve had so far.
I republished my website. fixed the problems on safari, but not firefox or pc. they better fix these problems asap.
hmmm, teenage trolls out in force today, mom took their wank mags again.
if this keeps up for a year, then it will be on par with a Microsoft cock-up (Vista).
until then, big transitions are very difficult.. period. Unfortunately, i can’t recall microsoft ever doing one (other than hotmail and vista) and both of those were botched badly.
“if this keeps up for a year, then it will be on par with a Microsoft cock-up (Vista).”
apple = microsoft-light.
“if this keeps up for a year, then it will be on par with a Microsoft cock-up (Vista).”
apple = microsoft-light.
.Mac to Mobileme transition has been fundamentally flawed. There are no aspects that work consistently. Mail on the desktop is not showing aliases. Calendars are syncing unreliably, if at all. iPod touch-iPhones are losing e-mails. Address book and Contacts are failing miserably. MM web apps are infuriatingly inadequate and inconsistent. This entire “cloud” is one big destructive storm, as opposed to a smooth communicative devise.
I haven’t had any issues at all with my MobileMe account and iWeb, everything has worked flawlessly since the initial startup problems (which were minimal and to be expected). I use iWeb extensively (publishing to it several times a day), and I haven’t had any “serious issues” at all, so I really don’t know what the ars technica folks are talking about.
I think I’m gonna switch to MSN and Hotmail.
I became a .Mac user the day I purchased my first Mac. I didn’t fully grasp the power of it for about 2 or 3 months after getting it. Until then it was a $70 email address that ended with @mac.com. I started uploading iWeb pages, using the iDisk, using the public portion of the iDisk, syncing my bookmarks, etc. I started to fully understand its usefulness.
$99 is a steal for everything that is offered in MobileMe and I am grateful that Apple has offered a free one month extension on my account. It was a little frustrating with the transition but nothing I couldn’t live without. Ad-free web space and 20GB of online storage is worth it alone, not to mention all the other features and now with push services it is even better. I will definitely pay another when my service runs out in December.
Agreed as above… no issues using Sandvox with MobileMe… maybe iWeb is the issue, non?
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Beautiful day to read some Mac news…
Give Apple a break.
They are trying very hard and increased complexity of today’s software and customer’s expectation to get more quicker is not helping.