All I want to do is read my to-do list.  This has taken most of the evening.

 

I am a MobileMe user for one primary reason: iCal.  My family and I use five different Apple products–two iPhones, an iPad, an iMac at home, and a MacBook Pro for my work–and we use MobileMe to sync our calendars.  Yes, it costs us $99 a year, but the cost is worth it for the reliability.

 

There is one function on iCal, though, that needs correcting.  I can access my to-do list on the iMac and MacBook Pro, but I cannot access it on any of the mobile devices.  I figured this was a temporary problem that Apple would solve eventually.  So when I got an email last week inviting me to upgrade to the new MobileMe iCal, I figured surely they have resolved this problem.  I logged in to my account and upgraded to the new calendar.

 

A few minutes later I got am message on my MacBook Pro that there was a problem with the sync to MobileMe, and it asked me if I wanted to go ahead with the sync by deleting some files.  I verified that I had saved the files, and went ahead with the deletion.  The sync went through, and I lost all of my iCal information on the MacBook.

 

I am not too worried about “losing” the information–it is still on the online cloud, and I can access it online and on the mobile devices.  Still, it would be nice to have the calendar information in general, and the to-do list in particular–back on my MacBook Pro.  So I did a little research and discovered that the new MobileMe iCal I upgraded to is incompatible with Mac OS 10.5, which is what my iMac and MacBook Pro were using.  Instead, I need Mac OS 10.6.6.

 

I got an OS 10.6 upgrade on the MacBook Pro from the university, but I still need the software update from Apple.com to go to 10.6.6.  I ran Software Update once already, and had the MacBook install the updated operating system.  After thirty minutes the install quit, noting that one of the files is corrupted.

 

I’m running the install one more time as I type this.

 

All I want is to see what I have left to do this week.  I should’ve just written my to-do list down on a sheet of iPaper.