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Rich,

A couple of questions? When you are using the MobileMe in the
preferences window you see four tabs: the relevant ones are sync and
iDisk. Putting contacts, calendars and some files on iDisk is not
the same as doing a sync to the Mobile Me.

When you use the Sync tab, it syncs Bookmarks, Contacts, Calendar,
Mail Accounts, Mail Rules and Keychain or selected ones if you don't
want all. These synced items are available either on your iPhone if
it is set to sync automatically with MobileMe and you can go to the
me.com website and access all of this in the respective applications.

However this does not have anything to do with the iDisk. The iDisk
should be considered like an online hard disk. You can put all of
the above information you mentioned plus any files into the folders
in iDisk. You can set up iDisk so it appears as a hard disk icon on
your Mac and is available to transfer information to like any other
hard disk. You can also set it up so that the iDisk can be accessed
when you are not online. In this case you set iDisk syncing to On
and it puts a copy of the iDisk on your computer's hard drive. It
sounds like you set this to sync only manually. If you have limited
bandwidth and only connect to the web at specific intervals, this is
the way to work it. However change a file on your computer does not
sync automatically to iDisk unless the file is only stored on iSync.
In this case the local file stored on the local iDisk changes
instantly but the iDisk stored in the cloud does not update until you
do a sync between the local copy of the iDisk and cloud copy.

However this is not the same as sync to Mobile Me which is other tab
called Sync. In this case changes made to applications like Address
Book, Mail, iCal and Safari Bookmarks can be synced automatically to
mobile Me or done manually whenever you sync.

Hope that answers your question

Jay

On May 27, 2010, at 8:20 AM, rkkeller8 wrote:

> I have never had a MobileMe account but now have one.
>
> I uploaded my contacts, calendars and some files on iDisk. When I
> make changes to a file on my computer that is also on iDisk, does
> the iDisk file change instantly or only when I do a sync or never?
> I have the sync set on manual.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Rich

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