Resetting iCloud based sync

[tomka]

@BLUEFROG

The moving around bit doesn’t necessarily eliminate Bonjour. Define the scenario more precisely, e.g, moving around where, etc.

We’ve been here. I think you can stop explaining bonjour to me. I’ve tried it, and it is not for me. As I wrote, it involves too much manual intervention like plugging in a cable to sync once. And yes, I’m in a corporate network or 5G most of the work day. If it does not “just work” most of the time I’ll switch to a different product. And in my adventures here, I’ve hit the password thing again…

When/why is DT3 asking for the Bonjour password?

Hi, I’m trying out Bonjour Sync between me two macs and two iOS devices. One thing that occurred to me on both iOS and macOS is that the clients are asking for the password again even after they have synced successfully a few times. So I set up everything, it syncs a few times, I’m working on something and suddently DT3 comes to the front with a password promot popup, even though I’m not workig in DT3. Why is that? How can I prevent it?

Coming back to the original thread. I have solved the issue “Resetting iCloud sync” for me as follows:

1. Use Bonjour to sync everything to one machine that you deem to contain the truth.
2. disconnect all other devices from the cloud sync
3. Use the main machine to run “clean location”. This will delete everything that is on iCloud.
4. Start syncing from the main machine to iCloud.
5. reconnect the other devices.

In my case, the mobile devices DTTG I could just switch sync back on and it would work magically. The second Mac was still stuck. There I deleted the local copies of the databases and downloaded them from the new sync store. Then it worked again.

I will give iCloud another chance. I know, in this forum everybody hates it and I come here only to be recommended Bonjour again and again, but it works for me. I think the other options like webdav all have their issues, at least they had for me when I decided to go with iCloud a few years ago.