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Creating a Local Copy of Your iDisk

When you start to use your iDisk regularly, you may want to work on files you store there even when you’re not connected to the Internet. Having a “local copy” of your iDisk means not having to depend on an Internet connection to access your iDisk files.
 
Creating a local copy of your iDisk puts a copy of your iDisk on your internal hard disk. You can just open the copy of your iDisk wherever you are and work with your files. When you connect to the Internet again, the changes you make will be copied from your local copy to your iDisk.
 
 
 
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Automatically synchronize your iDisk

You can choose to have the changes you make to the local copy of your iDisk automatically synchronize with your iDisk on .Mac. To set your local copy to automatically synchronize, click the Synchronize Automatically button in iDisk preferences.

If you quit while iDisk is syncing

If you log out, restart, or shut down your computer while iDisk is synchronizing between .Mac’s servers and your local copy, iDisk will finish syncing when you log in again.

Create a local copy of your iDisk by following these steps:
  1. From the Apple Menu, choose System Preferences.

  2. Click .Mac.

  3. In .Mac preferences, click the iDisk button.

  4. Click the Start button under iDisk Syncing.

  5. From here you can choose to have your iDisk automatically updated or or manually.

  


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