Another company giving up on iCloud sync for Core Data

[DDA]

I stumbled across this link: http://www.jumsoft.com/2013/01/response-to-sync-issues/

In which Jumsoft does a U-turn (their words) and pulls iCloud sync and returns to their existing WiFi data sync. They said they just couldn't make it work reliably for all users. Read the comments; a lot of the reactions mirror what I've seen here including calls to use DropBox.

While I haven't abandoned Yojimbo, the infrequent updates and dismissive attitude of some folks here has certainly let me to not put much *new* info into it. Serial Number info goes into 1Password now and other info goes into Evernote (for the moment).

[Tripp Frohlichstein]

Ditto-I hope to move back at some point but more communication is better-even to say we aren't making progress-or we have made minor progress or something.

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[stetner]

Here is hoping that BB will do the u-turn thing too and give us back at least *some* form of syncing.

Doug

[Seth Elgart]

Just for the record, Yojimbo has no need to "u-turn" as their wifi data sync still works as it always has. I just synced my iPad to my Mac Yojimbo yesterday in fact. Worked great. 

So basically, nobody's lost anything they once had in Yojimbo. It still does the Mac-to-iPad sync it always has.

Seth

[Rhet Turnbull]

>So basically, nobody's lost >anything they once had in >Yojimbo. It s

Entirely untrue. The whole reason I and many others bought Yojimbo was Mac to Mac sync. Yojimbo was the reason I was willing to pay $99/yr for Mobile Me. That functionality is gone.

I've made my peace with Yojimbo and moved to Evernote and Last Pass for new data. I'm only hanging around this list until I complete my migration for existing Yojimbo data. (working on a script to facilitate migration that addresses some of the issues with current export scripts)

Cheers, Rhet

[Terry J Fundak]

Seth,

FYI: Yojimbo used to sync between multiple copies of Yojimbo on multiple Mac even with multiple OS versions……  This feature died last year June with the death of MobileMe which was the sync mechanism…..

Terry

[Seth Elgart]

Well I stand corrected, in that case. At home I've been using only a single computer for many years now, so I've only done Mac-to-iPad syncing. And I've not synced to any of my work computers because the firewall is pretty strict about what it lets through.

To make up for this, here's my Yojimbo-launching AppleScript:

launch application "Yojimbo"
delay 5
tell application "Yojimbo"
��� quit
end tell
delay 20
launch application "Yojimbo"
delay 4
-- hide Yojimbo
tell application "System Events"
��� set visible of process "Yojimbo" to false
end tell

I have this saved as an AppleScript application and I put it in my startup items. What it does is launch Yojimbo, quits it, and then relaunches it. I do this because if I just have the Yojimbo app itself in my startup items the Drop Dock never opens, and I eventually got tired of quitting and relaunching Yojimbo, or more often forgetting to do that and then being annoyed when I had to do it manually the first time I wanted to drag a bookmark there after every single bootup. I don't mind doing something once in a while, but by the time you've done it for the thousandth time you just want it to be automated somehow. Note that the delays are in seconds, and that if you have a faster computer than I do you may be able to shorten up those times.


Seth

Terry J Fundak

January 31, 2013 8:41 PM

Seth,

FYI: Yojimbo used to sync between multiple copies of Yojimbo on multiple Mac even with multiple OS versions�� �This feature died last year June with the death of MobileMe which was the sync mechanism�..

Terry

[Rhet Turnbull]

Interesting -- here's a company promising to do Core Data syncing (what Yojimbo does) without iCloud.  Perhaps Bare Bones should take a look.  I'm sure most of the Yojimbo users (those that haven't jumped ship already) don't care about iCloud -- they only care about syncing data.

http://wasabisync.com/

Cheers,

Rhet

On Fri, Feb 1, 2013 at 7:15 PM, Seth Elgart <li...@boxoftextures.com> wrote:

Well I stand corrected, in that case. At home I've been using only a single computer for many years now, so I've only done Mac-to-iPad syncing. And I've not synced to any of my work computers because the firewall is pretty strict about what it lets through.

To make up for this, here's my Yojimbo-launching AppleScript:

launch application "Yojimbo"
delay 5
tell application "Yojimbo"

    quit
end tell
delay 20
launch application "Yojimbo"
delay 4
-- hide Yojimbo
tell application "System Events"

    set visible of process "Yojimbo" to false
end tell

I have this saved as an AppleScript application and I put it in my startup items. What it does is launch Yojimbo, quits it, and then relaunches it. I do this because if I just have the Yojimbo app itself in my startup items the Drop Dock never opens, and I eventually got tired of quitting and relaunching Yojimbo, or more often forgetting to do that and then being annoyed when I had to do it manually the first time I wanted to drag a bookmark there after every single bootup. I don't mind doing something once in a while, but by the time you've done it for the thousandth time you just want it to be automated somehow. Note that the delays are in seconds, and that if you have a faster computer than I do you may be able to shorten up those times.


Seth

Terry J Fundak

January 31, 2013 8:41 PM

Seth,

FYI: Yojimbo used to sync between multiple copies of Yojimbo on multiple Mac even with multiple OS versions……  This feature died last year June with the death of MobileMe which was the sync mechanism…..

Terry

[Patrick Woolsey]

At 18:42 -0700 02/03/2013, Rhet Turnbull wrote:
>Interesting -- here's a company promising to do Core Data syncing (what
>Yojimbo does) without iCloud. Perhaps Bare Bones should take a look. I'm
>sure most of the Yojimbo users (those that haven't jumped ship already)
>don't care about iCloud -- they only care about syncing data.
>
><http://wasabisync.com/>

We're also aware of Wasabi and it is in the right ballpark (though not
quite suitable at present).


Regards,

Patrick Woolsey
==
Bare Bones Software, Inc. <http://www.barebones.com/>