Most of the work took place under the hood in terms of re-architecting the app to replace MobileMe syncing with Wasabi Sync. And, of course, if you discover that you’re not using the syncing, you can cancel the subscription and Yojimbo will simply stop synchronizing your data and remove it from the server - you won’t lose anything, and you always maintain ownership of your data.Īpart from the new syncing capabilities, there are few new features in Yojimbo 4.0. If your credit card expires or if its number changes, you’ll be alerted via email and will have a month to resolve the problem. ![]() The subscription, which you sign up for within the app, bills automatically to your credit card each month. The “bad” news related to that decision? Syncing is now an optional feature in Yojimbo 4.0, and, after the first 30 days, will cost $2.99 per month, due to the ongoing costs of running the sync services. Instead, Bare Bones chose to partner with Wasabi World Wide Heavy Industries, whose Wasabi Sync service offers a highly reliable syncing solution for Core Data-based apps. So that’s where Yojimbo users have been stuck for the last year, but the good news is that Mac-to-Mac syncing has now returned to Yojimbo 4.0, though not through iCloud. Rich Siegel of Bare Bones even wrote a lengthy explanation of the problems. Unfortunately, syncing application data in iCloud has been unreliable since the beginning, and while Apple continues to work on the system, Bare Bones was never able to make it sufficiently functional. “But iCloud replaced MobileMe,” you say, and you’d be right. Mac to MobileMe through Yojimbo 2.0, and into 3.0 (read “ Yojimbo 3.0 Gains Scanning and iPad App,” 19 October 2010), but when Apple turned MobileMe off in June 2012, Yojimbo’s syncing was Mac-based syncing so you could access the same set of Yojimbo-stored items on any of your Macs. In the first version of Yojimbo (see our review in “ Let Yojimbo Guard Your Information Castle,” 30 January 2006), there was. Here’s a brief recap for those who haven’t followed the saga of Yojimbo, the information organizer from Bare Bones Software. ![]() #1656: Passcode thieves lock iCloud accounts, the apps Adam uses, iPhoto and Aperture library conversion in Ventura.#1657: A deep dive into the innovative Arc Web browser.#1658: Rapid Security Responses, NYPD and industry standard AirTag news, Apple's Q2 2023 financials.#1659: Exposure notifications shut down, cookbook subscription service, alarm notification type proposal, Explain XKCD. ![]() #1660: OS updates for sports and security, Drobo in bankruptcy, why TidBITS doesn't cover rumors.
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