Does anyone know anything about the "SafariSyncClient"?....

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Does anyone know anything about the "SafariSyncClient"?....

I'm now having a problem with my RAM and processors being "eaten" up by this process called "SafariSyncClient". It only appears when I run Mail or Safari 4. It keeps running even after each program has shut down.

I have to manually force quit the process to keep it from dragging down my system. Interestingly enough, if I open both Mail AND Safari 4 at the same time, two separate SafariSyncClient processes open up.

Is anyone else experiencing this?

Thanks / Josue

MacBookPro 15", Mac OS X (10.5.7), 2.2 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, 4GB 667 MHz DDR2 SDRAM

Posted on Jun 11, 2009 10:08 AM

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Answer 1

Jun 15, 2009 11:06 AM in response to Josue.Alvarez

There is another recent thread on this. Here is my reply to that one:

I have the same problem, and only have maybe 15 more bookmarks than the ones that come with Safari. The problem also surfaced when I upgraded from Safari 4 beta to Safari 4.

Not everybody seems to have this problem otherwise there would be a huge outrage, so I suspect that it has to do with something in our configuration.

It should get solved eventually and I will call apple support to try to do so. In the meantime, I worked around it by deselecting "Bookmarks" under the MobileMe Sync Preferences and then using Activity Monitor to kill the SafariSyncClient process. It doesn't return. I also don't get my bookmarks sync'd to MobileMe, that that is not an issue for me right now as I only have one Mac.

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Answer 2

Markai

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Jun 15, 2009 12:23 PM in response to Josue.Alvarez

I have this problem, too. So does a friend. It's eating all my resources. I'm going to uninstall Safari 4. It's reminding me of frustrations I had when using a pc!

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Answer 3

Jun 15, 2009 8:00 PM in response to Josue.Alvarez

Thanks for your input guys. I guess I will have to wait for the software update to be released. Unfortunately, I don't believe this is only related to the preference for MobileMe, as I do not have an active MobileMe account. Another thing, the problem isn't only with Safari 4, the process also activates when I open Mail. Hmmm.... I guess we'll have to wait and see.

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Answer 4

Jun 17, 2009 6:03 PM in response to Josue.Alvarez

I spent some time on the phone with Apple tech support today. They were very helpful and appeared to have solved the problem. They had me go to iSync in the applications directory, go the Preferences and then click on Reset Sync History. First they had me log out of MobileMe, but not sure that was important. I logged back in to MobileMe. I have now been using my Mac for an hour now with no recurrance of the safarisyncclient.

Good luck

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Answer 5

Jun 17, 2009 7:50 PM in response to cleveralias

You rock! This solved the issue. For those people who don't use iSync regularly, you need to set it up first, and then you can go into preferences. Well, at least that's what I had to do.

I first had to pair a device to sync, and then the preferences tab lit up.

Thanks!!

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Answer 6

Jun 20, 2009 11:28 AM in response to Josue.Alvarez

I'm glad that it worked for you. Have a good weekend. I'm spending my time trying to figure out my new iPhone 3GS!

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