Cloudy Weather

Today I have also mainly been thinking about putting stuff in the clouds.

Once I had upgraded the iPad to IOS 5 it seemed that it was now time to upgrade my Mac to Lion (Grr).

This was easy it took a visit to the App store a payment of 22 quid or so and a long download of a few hours. The install took about 30 mins and all seemed to go well until I opted to use the cloud to sync my calendar.

Our calendar has saved our lives over the years by reminding us to pay bills send birthday cards and remember to get an MOT for the car. However In my enthusiasm to embrace the cloud I said yes to one of the questions about syncing with the iCloud. Then horror.... we looked in the calendar and found 2 of everything.

Out first thought was to delete half the entries by hand. It took some time but eventually the calendar started to look like its old self. So all seemed good with the Lion and the Cloud.

Grr.. the next day we happened to open the calendar in the iPad only to find that all the entries had been deleted. It seems that we had deleted all the duplicate entries and these were the ones in the cloud.

Yawn.. Now we need to move calendar entries from "on my MAC" to the Cloud. I wonder if we will start to forget birthdays or Bills or MOTs. Sigh..

There probably was a better way to do this.

If I did it again I would opt out of cloud for iPad and Lion and continue to use iTunes to Sync for a while. I am sure the iCloud is the answer once we all get the hang of it.