Updating TF on Mac to v3.0

[tonyt]

Hi
If I am just updating my 2 macs to v3 or 3.1 but leaving my iPod on 2.4 so as not to get into iCloud drive just yet, do I need to turn off and reset syncing?
Cheers
tony

[Brendan]

Hi Tony,

If you’ve enabled iCloud Drive on any of your Macs it’s too late. Apple does a one-time migration of your data from Documents & Data over to iCloud Drive when you do that and there’s no going back.

But once you are using iCloud Drive, I would recommend either logging out of iCloud and logging back in, or disabling iCloud Sync in Tap Forms and choose the “Keep a Local Copy” option when prompted, then quit Tap Forms on all devices, then use the Manage area in the iCloud System Preferences on your Mac to delete the Tap Forms Documents & Data files. Then re-launch Tap Forms and then re-enable iCloud Sync on all your devices.

That’ll give you a clean start for syncing.

Thanks,

Brendan

[tonyt]

Thanks Brendan
I’m still on Mavericks 10.9 and iCloud – so what do I need to do for that, if anything.
I’m going to wait for IOS 8.1 / OSX 10.1 / TForms 3.1 before I upgrade to use iCloud Drive.
Thanks for your help as ever.
Aslo, is latest TForms for Mac OK on Mavericks and iCloud?
Cheers
tony

[Brendan]

Hi Tony,

Tap Forms Mac 3.0 is rated to work on Mavericks as a minimum now. I used to support Lion and Mountain Lion, but had to abandon those. Just too old and I didn’t have any machines I could test it on anymore.

Are you even attempting to sync right now with your current configuration? I’m not sure if you’re having troubles or if you’re just wanting to know if it’s ok before you even try. It doesn’t hurt to just try. Follow along with the video demo in the online user manual for Mac. There’s an iCloud Sync section there.

Thanks,

Brendan

[tonyt]

Hi Brendan
Sorry for a confusing post. I am currently syncing with NO problems on OSX 10.9 and IOS 7.? using iCloud and TForms 2.2.3. I just wanted to make sure I upgraded to TForms 3 on my Macs properly – continuing to use iCloud until IOS sorts out its problems. Hope this makes things clearer?
Cheers
Tony

[Brendan]

Hi Tony,

If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it :-)

It seems that almost everyone who upgraded to iOS 8 and Yosemite has had some problems with iCloud Sync. Although for others it has corrected the problems they had before. There are delays with syncing between devices and often a reboot is required to get iCloud Drive to sync files again. Tap Forms just sits back and listens for updates from iCloud. It often doesn’t get them because iCloud Drive has stopped functioning.

I was just working with my Dutch translator right now and he had no activity with iCloud Drive. Not even from Apple’s Pages app. But I showed him the “brctl log -w” command so we could see the sync activity at the operating system level and finally once he rebooted, then files began to sync, even with Pages.

When iCloud works, it works great. When it doesn’t… not so good.

Thanks,

Brendan

[tonyt]

Thanks Brendan

So I’ll stick with IOS 7, TF 3.0.1 when its out plus iCloud on Mavericks! I wonder how long for Apple to sort iCloud Drive????

Keep up the good work, its much appreciated!

Cheers

tony

[Brendan]

Tony, I don’t think Apple will ever support iCloud Drive on iOS 7 and Mavericks.

[tonyt]

Hi Brendan

I know! Im just hanging fire on Yosemite and IOS 8 until some / all of the bugs are sorted. I will have to go to them later as eventually Mavericks will no longer receive security updates and developers will continue to be unable to support old OSs!

Cheers

tony

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