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iSync doesn’t open
Author: Aaron B. Russell2 May
Dear Lazyweb:
iSync has decided to stop opening for me. Syncing from the iSync menu doesn’t work either.
iSync appears and disappears in the Dock before it even gets a chance to bounce. Nothing in the console, and it doesn’t fire up CrashReporter to send a report to Apple.
Trashing ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.iSync.plist didn’t fix it.
Making it run under Rosetta didn’t fix it either.
I’m running OS X 10.5.2 and iSync.app 3.0 on a MacBook Pro (Core 2 Duo).
Halp?
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Hi. The exact same thing happens to me. iSync 3.0.2 on OSX 10.5.4 on a Pb 12″. Did you find a solution?
Dan: Trashing my SyncServices folder fixed it, although I’ve since learned that this is quite a bad idea. Try this first: http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1627
I had the same problem. iSync would bounce once at start-up and that would be all.
Steps
1. Apple support article mentioned above, both alternatives didn’t work.
2. Trashing SyncServices (/System/Library/SyncServices) didn’t work. The folder was recreated after reboot.
3. Navigated to the package content of iSync using the Finder and started /Applications/iSync.app/Contents/MacOS/iSync. This will first start a Terminal, which then launches iSync. This works.
4. Somewhere else, I found the suggestions to copy iSync to the Desktop and then copy it back to Applications. Now iSync can be started the normal way, again.
Ack, yeah. Roel’s solution of moving the file to the desktop and back again was what fixed it for me. Whoops, I’d forgotten that!
Wow, Roel’s solution worked for me too! That is so strange… Thanks to both of you, I was almost giving up iSync :)
Also worked for me. Thanks a lot!
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