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.Mac sync data on Linux?
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nonhuman
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Feb 14, 2008, 03:33 PM
 
Does anyone know if there's anyway to get at .Mac sync data on Linux? I'm not talking about data on an iDisk, which is easily accessible, but the address book, calendar, and other sync data.
     
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Feb 14, 2008, 04:59 PM
 
All that stuff is proprietary... Other apps can plug-in to Apple Sync Services (I believe), but I don't think this API is open.

Why does it have to be .Mac?
     
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Feb 14, 2008, 05:21 PM
 
Originally Posted by besson3c View Post
All that stuff is proprietary... Other apps can plug-in to Apple Sync Services (I believe), but I don't think this API is open.
Well, there's the .Mac SDK, but that's obviously only going to work with cocoa apps. (Or is it cocoa/carbon? Whatever, doesn't really matter.) I figured there probably wasn't any way to do it, and haven't been able to find anything indicating otherwise, but you never know what someone around here might have managed.

Why does it have to be .Mac?
Because I currently use .Mac to keep my data synced between my various computers, and I'm trying to figure out if there's anyway I could easily add a Linux box into the mix. Of course one of the things I keep synced with .Mac is my Yojimbo database, and obviously there's not a Linux version of Yojimbo... (although it does just use a SQLite database, and I've been planning on trying to write an app that will access that for another project anyway).
     
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Feb 14, 2008, 06:19 PM
 
Honestly, if you want to keep your data in sync between multiple platforms, I would probably suggest doing syncs at the file system level using an open protocol.
     
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Feb 14, 2008, 06:51 PM
 
Yeah, I know. It's just so convenient using .Mac.
     
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Feb 14, 2008, 06:54 PM
 
Originally Posted by nonhuman View Post
Yeah, I know. It's just so convenient using .Mac.

As is being in the little Apple bubble in general.
     
   
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