Journey to Mac
Thursday 17th April, 2008Today I did progress my personal departure
from Windows just one little additional step, by finally managing to install
Notes 8 for the Mac and connecting it to our servers, indeed without too
much hassle (also thanks to Marco's help...); it actually got through so
easily that I decided to move the Notes data directory from the Windows
under VM instance to the Mac instance.
Theoretically, you just drag & drop files from one to the other, except it is not a copy, but a move and the target position is some black hole I could not find - in a blistering sequence I lost my ID file and my Names file (which includes Diary, Contacts, Connections and Locations) thereby crippling in one fell swoop both instances of Notes. I hit the panic button and started thinking very hard how to undo this giant screwup.
I had a VM snapshot (not a very recent one, about a month old) but luckily Diary and Contacts are replicated with my phone, so I restored the snapshot and replicated one way with the phone - whew !
So my only remaning Win apps are Paintshop (which could be easily replaced if I could get myself to learn to use Aperture or Lightroom) and the Nokia PC Suite, which does not exist for the Mac; the latter could be replaced by an awkward combo replicating Notes to iCal using e.g. PocketMac and then from the iCal to the N95 with iSynch.
Except iSynch does not support the N95, unless you install the appropriate plugin. which cannot be installed on iSynch 3.0 (maybe in need of an update? traditionally Nokia's support for OSX is somewhat weak, so I guess I'll have to wait on that one...)
Theoretically, you just drag & drop files from one to the other, except it is not a copy, but a move and the target position is some black hole I could not find - in a blistering sequence I lost my ID file and my Names file (which includes Diary, Contacts, Connections and Locations) thereby crippling in one fell swoop both instances of Notes. I hit the panic button and started thinking very hard how to undo this giant screwup.
I had a VM snapshot (not a very recent one, about a month old) but luckily Diary and Contacts are replicated with my phone, so I restored the snapshot and replicated one way with the phone - whew !
So my only remaning Win apps are Paintshop (which could be easily replaced if I could get myself to learn to use Aperture or Lightroom) and the Nokia PC Suite, which does not exist for the Mac; the latter could be replaced by an awkward combo replicating Notes to iCal using e.g. PocketMac and then from the iCal to the N95 with iSynch.
Except iSynch does not support the N95, unless you install the appropriate plugin. which cannot be installed on iSynch 3.0 (maybe in need of an update? traditionally Nokia's support for OSX is somewhat weak, so I guess I'll have to wait on that one...)
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