Sync Error; says its disabled

I am having the exact same problem. I have deleted both folders but it still does it

Great, thanks a lot! It worked for me perfecty! Just to be sure, after moving the folder, I restarted. Jan

this worked for me too! after I logged out and back in

I trashed the iSync folders in my home library>application support and on my hard drive library as well. It didn't work.

I noticed that iTunes does not show my recent address groups, but those of maybe one year ago. Wherefrom does iTunes draw these groups? the same thing is true for iCal. Some feeding file must go in between iTunes and the other iApps with the result, that iPhone is fooled with this message sync cannot be enabled ...

Any answer out there?

Thanks for the advice. I spent the better part of the day with Apple reps (4). I still had problems syncing my contacts. Followed your suggestion and it worked.

Hey!

I was having the SAME problem with my MacBook Pro and brand new iPhone.

This "moving the SyncServices folder and restarting" idea worked like a charm for me!

I only did it last night, so I don't know how long it will last, BUT, it's safe to say that you SAVED my evening!!! I was getting extremely frustrated, and happened upon this info just in time.

THANKS!!!

After a two attempts Stephen Dunn2's procedure worked for me. I struggled about two week with this problem and my MBP was extremely slow from time to time. Not only because of SyncServer I think because sometimes SS was not active and still the Mac was very slow.
I could neither sync with my iPhone nor with .Mac.

In the old SyncingClients.plist was still my old cell-phone listed.
I had a Folder SyncServices AND a folder SyncService. I removed both.
Could one of those above be the cause?

Gee, I'm so glad!!! Thanks to Stephen!

I remember that removing all of a trial version of iSticky one of my last actions was before I carried out Stephen Dunn2's procedure.
Does anybody use this app here?

Very helpful indeed -- that does the trick. Thanks.

Seriously, wow, worked like a CHARM! For only having 1 post, you were a life saver!!!!! Just remember to restart your computer, open iTunes, iCal, Address Book, and Mail, Quit iTunes and reopen it. Works beautifully!!!!!!

thank, worked for me =]

This works!!! Its easy!!! I tried another solution from another post in this forum which was reapiring permissions and restart and that did NOT work. SO I was scared, but in typical mac fashion the bizarre quirk was easily fixed by removing the sync services folder.

I moved it to the desk top
reopened itunes
selected the boxes I wanted to sync from the info page
voila!w
new sync services folder was automatically created and my sync worked fine after that!

For some reason with the MobileMe transition my sync services got all out of whack. The "sync" tab in MobileMe was grayed out and I couldn't sync ANYTHING on my computer. Though this same tip did the trick.

Just for good measure, I also repaired my disk permissions and reinstalled iTunes 7.7. But I don't think any of that helped.

Thanks!

I had the same problem, but thanks to your solution everything syncs again.
Thank you!

I was having the same problem today with 10.4.11 and an iPhone 3G. Followed these steps and everything is working great. Syncing with my MobileMe account is working now too. Thanks for the help!