Blinking Menubar Icons with iSync on

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Blinking Menubar Icons with iSync on

Hello!

Since today, every time I start iSync and turn on the "Show Menubar Icon" option, all icons in the menubar diasappear and appear again in a neverending matter. I already erased the ~/Library/Preferences folder, but the problem is still present.

Does anyone have an idea?

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m0H

Apple MacBook Alu, Mac OS X (10.6.6)

Posted on Jan 16, 2011 7:25 AM

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Answer 1

Jan 16, 2011 9:33 AM in response to Seism0H

Have you tried restarting?

Have you tried turning off other menu bar items to see which one is causing the problem?

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Jan 16, 2011 11:29 AM in response to Julian Wright

Hello!

Yes, I restartet a couple of times, and by turning off each icon after the other i figured out, that it is caused by isync.
Isync also doesn't sync anymore with my phone. It just says "Synchronization cancelled"...
Is there a possbility to "reset" iSync (deleting ALL config-files?)

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m0H

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Answer 3

Jan 16, 2011 11:59 AM in response to Seism0H

The Sync icon that appears in the menu bar is not an "iSync" menu. It is the system-wide "Sync" menu which is used for all syncing in Mac OS X, but mainly for controlling and getting information on MobileMe syncing (click the icon whilst holding the Alt key).

To reset the underlying SyncServices framework, Alt-Click the Sync menu icon and choose "Reset Sync Services..." at the bottom.

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Jan 16, 2011 1:50 PM in response to Julian Wright

The problem is, that I cannot "click" the icon in the menubar - every time I activate the option "show icon in menubar" - all icons appear and disappear again and again for some seconds. If I try to click the isync (or sync) icon the time it appears, it just says "loading..." - and that's it - after that it disappears again, and appears again after some seconds.
It seems that there is something broken with the sync service - as I also cannot sync my phone.

The last thing I did before the error is to install "quicksync" - a program for siemens gigaset phones - but even removing this program doesn't change anything.

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Answer 5

Jan 17, 2011 1:35 AM in response to Seism0H

Try the alternative method of resetting SyncServices here: http://support.apple.com/kb/ts1627

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Jan 17, 2011 9:08 AM in response to Julian Wright

If I start the script in the helpfile, I get the following messages:

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$ /System/Library/Frameworks/SyncServices.framework/Versions/A/Resources resetsync.pl reset
subarg =
Running reset
No matching processes belonging to you were found
No matching processes belonging to you were found
unlinking and writing version 0 into /Users/hansi/Library/Application Support/SyncServices/Local/data.version
2011-01-17 18:05:42.091 defaults[3127:903]
There is no (UpgradedbTries) default for the (com.apple.SyncServer) domain.
Defaults have not been changed.

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Still - it doesn't work.

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Jan 17, 2011 11:59 AM in response to Seism0H

Problem solved:
I copied the folder "/System/Library/Frameworks/SyncServices.framework" from an old backup.
Now everything works again.

Thanks for your help.

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