Syncing Datafiles Return to User Guide Index Being able to create and modify datafiles on a Mac, with its large keyboard and mouse (or touch pad), is generally more convenient that doing the same using the iPhone keyboard. The iData synchronization procedures provide a way to maintain copies of a datafile on both platforms and to synchronize changes made to either copy with the other copy. There are two Macintosh-based applications that can create, read, and synchronize iData Mobile datafiles: iData 3 and iData Lite. To read more about them on the iData website in Safari, click here. Each of those applications includes a User Guide that explains the details of the synchronization procedures on the Mac side of the process. iData Mobile provides two methods for transferring its datafiles between the Mac and the iPhone. Synchronization is performed on the transferred datafiles on the Mac. The simplest is to use a local WiFi network. This requires that you have a wireless router, such as the Airport Extreme, with a WiFi network set up, and that you turn WiFI on and select that network in your iPhone Settings. To read about using iData Mobile with a WiFi network, go to Syncing via WiFi. If you need to transfer datafiles between your iPhone and a Mac while you are out of range of your local WiFi network, you can subscribe to Apple's MobileMe service, and transfer datafiles to and from the iDisk Documents folder on your me.com site. To read about using iData Mobile with iDisk, go to Synching via iDisk.

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