[ctbritt]

Hello all-- I hope someone can help. Today, suddenly, iSync refused to launch. It would bounce a lot (which it had started doing lately) and then just sit in the dock without the black arrow. So I did all the various disk repairs (caches deleted, permissions, repaired, etc.) and still no go. So I deleted all the various SyncServices folders. (Can't seem to find a com.apple.isync.plist, though.)

Still nothing.

Finally, I opened up my .Mac preference pane in System Preferences. Now I can't open the Sync or Advanced tabs. They just go gray and aren't accessible. Account and iDisk are still accessible.

I can access all the various sync services from other user accounts on the same computer, so it must be some preference or something in my main account, but I can't seem to figure out what it might be.

Does anyone have any suggestions? I could really use the help.

Thanks,
chris

[Hal Itosis]

Here is a fragment of a script I've been playing with.
This much should list all iSync related user files.
I hope I've pegged all of them (not 100% sure tho):

Code:
#!/bin/sh -
PATH=/bin:/usr/bin
export PATH

cd ~/Library

folderList='    Application?Support/AddressBook
                Application?Support/iCal
                Application?Support/iSync
                Application?Support/SyncServices
                Caches/com.apple.AddressBook
                Caches/com.apple.iCal
                Caches/Metadata/iCal
		Logs/Sync
                Phones
'

prefsList='     Preferences/com.apple.AddressBook.plist
                Preferences/com.apple.iCal.alarmsCache.plist
                Preferences/com.apple.iCal.AlarmScheduler.plist
                Preferences/com.apple.iCal.helper.plist
                Preferences/com.apple.iCal.plist
                Preferences/com.apple.isync.plist
		Preferences/com.apple.syncserver.plist
		Preferences/com.apple.DotMacSync.plist
'

ls -lGhTtFd $folderList $prefsList

exit $?

[unfortunately code tags here don't support tabs or leading spaces]
Anyway... hope this is of some use to ya. (Yes, there is an isync.plist)


Note there are plenty of "plists" not stored in /Preferences...
which adding something like
find -f $folderList -iname "*.plist" -print0|xargs -0 ls -lGhTtF
to the script above will show.

Originally Posted by ctbritt

Finally, I opened up my .Mac preference pane in System Preferences. Now I can't open the Sync or Advanced tabs. They just go gray and aren't accessible. Account and iDisk are still accessible.

That part could be a bad System Prefs cache file :
com.apple.preferencepanes.searchindexcache
com.apple.preferencepanes.cache

[ctbritt]

Hal-- Thanks for this Your script worked nicely to find the preference files. But Spotlight didn't find them. Once your script told me they existed, I had to look for them manually. And I can'ot find the two System Pref cache files. Any idea where they might be?

[ctbritt]

Never mind; I found them in the ~/Library/Caches directory. Thanks.

[ctbritt]

STILL broken. I have deleted caches and preference files and the same problem exists. The only thing I can think of is that upgrading to 10.4.7 somehow hosed my syncing ability. Is my only option to archive and install?

[ctbritt]

If you want, i can post my console log here, or send a link to it if you think that would help.

[TheFaithfulStone]

I've got this same issue.

Furthermore, the SyncServer process is ALWAYS running - I have to kill it constantly, because it's using like 60% CPU and churning the hard drive.

Happened after the recent 10.4.7 update.

TFS

[Hal Itosis]

Originally Posted by ctbritt

STILL broken. I have deleted caches and preference files and the same problem exists. The only thing I can think of is that upgrading to 10.4.7 somehow hosed my syncing ability. Is my only option to archive and install?

Sorry I can't be of more help... I just don't know the minutia going on within iSync.

Did you do a "delta" upgrade to 10.4.7?

Maybe using a "combo" upgrade could patch whatever is messing up (?)

:shrug: