![]() ![]() –4– prepare Address Book and iCloud Contacts for syncing : – exit the iCal Preferences by clicking on the little red button in the upper left corner – note : the 9-digit number from the Server Path is your 9-digit iCloud Account code ! – do NOT put a check mark in front of “Use Kerberos” – leave the ‘Port:’ setting empty (it will display “Automatic” in grey) if that doesn’t work you might try setting it to “443” – then select the ‘Server settings’-tab, make sure that ‘Use SSL’ is checked ![]() – leave the rest as it is set automatically – at ‘Calendar synchronization:’ select “Every minute” (or any other option, but do not select “Push”) – in the ‘Account info’-tab, at ‘Description:’ type “iCloud Calendar sync” – the iCloud CalDAV account you’ve just created will now be listed on the left (in which the p0X-prefix should correspond with the p0X-prefix you’ve found in step 1) – at ‘Password:’ type your AppleID password – at ‘E-mail address:’ type your AppleID-account’s login eMail address – in the ‘Add Account’-window that opens, select “Account Type: CalDAV” – in the window that opens, click on the ‘Accounts’-tab – select your internal hard drive’s main partition (the one you have MacOSX running on) form the list on the left – open Programs –> Utilities –> Disk Utility (the p0X-prefix is your iCloud Server-number, and the 123456789-code is your 9-digit iCloud Account-code) – remember that p0X-prefix and the 123456789-code ! you are going to need those in the following steps ! – in Activity window that opens you’ll find the text “iCloud Calendar” in bold letters, just below it, you’ll find 3 lines that look like this : – now go to Window (in the upper menu bar) –> Activity – login using your AppleID e-mail address and AppleID password How to find your iCloud server and 9-digit iCloud user code : –1– find your iCloud Server-number and your 9-digit iCloud Account-code : ![]() Try this method, and please report back on your findings, so we can work out a solution that works for everybody : …that turns out to be a little more complicated though… OSX 10.6 “Snow Leopard” was the first version of OSX that had CalDAV and CardDAV syncing built in (both needed for iCloud syncing), but the implementation is not as smooth as in OSX 10.7 “Lion”… īut I’ve done som research and I think I’m very, very close to the solution now… Some people report being successful using the method outlined below, others – like me – are close, but don’t have things running yet… YES ! MacOSX 10.6 Snow Leopard can sync to iCloudĭetailed instructions on how to set it up can be found in my other post here :įixed : get iCloud on the officially unsupported OSX Snow Leopard – sync works !įor people like you, Apple was rumored to implement iCloud compatibility in OSX 10.6.9 about a year ago… but to this date, OSX 10.6.8 is still the newest version of OSX 10.6 “Snow Leopard”…īased on my good experience with getting iCloud syncing running on the officially unsupported iPhone 3G, one would expect to be able to get a similar solution running on OSX 10.6 “Snow Leopard” also… But… as MobileMe services are permanently stopping within a week, and I don’t have the budget to buy a new Mac I can’t upgrade to iCloud : What can I do ? I’m ‘happily stuck’ with OSX 10.6 “Snow Leopard”. I have a perfectly running ‘early’ Intel-Mac, that only has a Core Duo processor, not a Core 2 Duo (or newer), so I can’t upgrade to OSX 10.7 “Lion”. ![]()
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