This update improves the reliability of backup restore and uses space more efficiently on your iDisk or local storage (e.g. external hard drive or DVD).
MobileMe Backup v3.2 is available via Software Update and also as a standalone installer.
More info and download link (6.73 MB) here.
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Who cares.
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Is MobileMess still $99 a year? Who the hell pays for that crap?
MobileMe has come in quite handy keeping an iMac, a MacBook Pro, and 2 iPhones in sync. I use the MobileMe gallery function in Aperture on a regular basis. For me, this is worth a little over $8/month. Yes, there are other ‘free’ third party ways to do the same sort of things, but I chose the intergrated way of .Mac out of simplicity. YMMV.
Well with a teenager , it’s worth the price just for “find my iPhone “
she doesn’t know I have that capibilties, and luckley for us ( and her) she’s always been where she says she is! And God forbid, it may help if she goes
missing
My other 2 use’s are iPhoto gallery for sending pictures and sending a link for someone to down load big files
true it needs improvements, put the sync works and i like the idisk storage access. fyi u can get the mobileme on ebay for about $49.
I buy the Family Pack from Amazon every year for a little over $100. I use the primary account, and let my daughter, mother, niece and a friend use the other 4 accounts. $20 / yr / person to keep our Macs, iPhones, iPod touches and iPads synced is well worth the price!!
“More info and download link (6.73 MB)” is a bad link
I agree with flirtsquirt. I renew MobileMe by buying an activation key for ~$50 through eBay. $4 / month for everything is does is a no-brainer for my imac, ipod touch, and iphone toting family.
I also renew every year for about $50 on eBay or Amazon.
There are deals to be had if you know where to look.
Love my doc mac account.
I sync my laptop, home computer and work computer.
But iDisk has not sync’ed on any of my machines for over 6 months. Keeps errorring out.
Hope this fixes it. I am not the only one. Quite the list of similar problems over at the apple support page.
MobileMe, including iDisk, work great for our small business.
I too love my MobileMe account, for synching calendar, contacts, mail and Safari bookmarks between multiple computers (and now an iPad). Best $99 I spend each year, but I will be checking out the Amazon/eBay deals–thanks for the tips!
“iDisk has not sync’ed on any of my machines for over 6 months. Keeps errorring out.”
I just started having a bunch of errors with iDisk as well, and I think it had to do with iDisk trying to sync a copy of its contents back to my computer (“iDisk Sync” under the MobileMe / iDisk preference). I turned it off and the errors went away, and iDisk is still syncing to the cloud.
MobileMe has definitely been worth the price. It is is an elegant package of a variety of services.
I don’t see how I could live without MobileMe and it great integration for Apple’s products including syncing between all computers and mobile devices, offsite backup, email, photo and video sharing, etc. I use Backup to nightly transfer critical files to MobileMe for off site storage.
MobileMe also includes website hosting. Plus you can have it redirect to your own domain name.
Awesome! I thought left this Backup product out back with CyberDog. Glad to see there’s still life!
It’s kind of Time Machine in reverse. Whereas Time Machine backs up “everything” and you tell it what you want to exclude, with Backup, you tell it specifically what to back up. So the two are good compliments – and its free (I don’t think you need to be a MobileMe subscriber).
And you can use it to back up everything, if desired, and set up a desired schedule (unlike the set hourly backup schedule for Time Machine). Unfortunately, unlike Time Machine, the backup archive is a series of backup “packages” (one FULL plus one for every incremental backup). So you need to use Backup to do a restore. With Time Machine, the backup archive is just folders with the actual files, organized by date/time just like the primary storage (using “multi-linking”). If you needed to do so for some reason, you can just use Finder to retrieve files. With Backup, I worry about data corruption messing up those numerous backup package files. And I wonder why Apple did not merge the methods used in Time Machine into Backup. Then, it would be ideal.
There are better third-party tools (not free), such as ChronoSync from Econ.
Was your question answered, R2?
MobileMe is PURE 100% USDA Grade A inspected CRAP. iDisk alone is an utter embarrassment to the Apple brand. It is a constant catastrophe for massive amounts of users. Apple shoult be utterly ashamed to put out such garbage.
When the NC facility is up and running I expect advanced cloud computing including, but not limited to, an improved MobileMe with more features and storage.
Despite the name “MobileMe Backup,” this software is not directly related to MobileMe. Therefore, the posts about to the value of a MobileMe subscription (or lack thereof) are almost as irrelevant as the usual political “discussion” posts, which this article surprisingly does not have (yet).
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People who want a more specific and configurable tool (that is free), compared to just using Time Machine, should give it a try. Also, since works back to Tiger, you can use it instead of Time Machine on your older Mac. (So ignore the comments about the MobileMe service.)
Clearly, ken1w, is nothing more than a MobileMe shill. His blatant ignoring how utterly awful MobileMe is, is truly astounding. Only an unmitigated MobileMe hack would utter the bilge that ken1w has done.
Jeeve Stobs, on the other hand, really tells it like it is. He is to be commended and ken1w is to be utterly trashed in this forum.