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iCloud sync issues

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One of the reasons I use iCloud is that I often use two different systems for writing. I have a MacBook Air and a Mac mini. I will often start writing on the MacBook Air and then do some more on the Mac mini.

Usually I don’t have sync issues, but over the last few weeks I have noticed that text I wrote on one machine disappeared when I opened the document on the other machine. This happened with both Pages and Word files.

I am not entirely sure of what the issue is, I think it may be because I have not necessarily saved the file on one Mac and then when (later I) access the file on the other Mac it takes the cloud version, saves it, and then saves back to the cloud. As it is more recent, then the other Mac uses that file rather than the older unsaved version.

I think that is the problem, but I haven’t been able to replicate the problem either.

Since then I have been taking care to save files more often. Also, been closing files rather than leaving them open.

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Pleaaaasssee be a little faster!

I have no idea why, but my iMac can be so slow at times…

This is a 2.16 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo iMac with 2 GB of RAM, so I am guessing that this really should be a fast computer, certainly faster than my old G4 PowerBook!

However at times it slows down to a real crawl, so slow that all I get is the spinning beachball of death!

However all is not lost I know why.

I run too many applications at once and I run them hard.

For example I will usually have three browsers open all with multiple tags. I also visit sites which have lots of javascript and ajax in them (such as WordPress blogs and Jaiku).

I do run a few PowerPC legacy applications (namely Word and Firefox).

I will have iPhoto and iTunes running in the background as well.

I would suspect that running EyeTV and EyeHome in the background also adds to the load.

So it’s not really the iMac’s fault, I know it’s all mine!

In theory what I should do is run a single application only and then open the others as and when I need them.

In theory that is a good idea.

In reality I don’t work that way.

Maybe I need a stack of computers with multiple spaces on a single monitor that allow me to work the way I want to without loading the lot so much so slow it right down to a crawl.