[missing-sync-hiptop-talk] I messed up

[Brian M. Criscuolo]

Charles,

This is a rather confusing aspect of Apple's Sync Services (XSync)  
technology. Instead of everyone being a plugin to iSync (as we still  
are on 10.3.9) Tiger requires us to be an application - known as a  
Sync Client.

Sync Clients are really cool - multiple clients all talk to one  
master database of information, synchronizing their changes with  
everyone else. In theory this is great!

In practice, confusing messages like you saw make the experience less  
than great. What is happening is that the sync engine is providing a  
dialog asking if you'll allow our application to join the other  
applications currently synchronizing contact and calendar data. By  
choosing to not allow that to happen, the sync engine has taken us  
off the list of allowable clients.

Of course, there is no direct way to get us back on the list. Here's  
what you want to do:

Launch Missing Sync for hiptop. Hold down the option key, and choose  
the "Missing Sync for hiptop" menu, "Debug options" to display some  
advanced options.

Click on "Unregister Sync Clients" and Yes to accept the change.  
Click OK to close the debug options.

At this point, with beta 4 of Missing Sync for hiptop, you'll crash.  
That's OK. Its fixed for beta 5. Relaunch the application and sync -  
you'll be asked to allow Missing Sync for hiptop to synchronize again.

Good luck.

b

On Jul 4, 2005, at 1:57 PM, Charles Como wrote:

> When I went to do a first sync (on Tiger), it said it will sync my  
> contact from address book, and my other phone.  I thought this was  
> weird, I didn't want duplicates from my other phone, so when the  
> message came up saying the program wanted to access my address book  
> and calendar, I said no to stop it.
>
> Now I cannot sync at all!  It connects for a second, then stops,  
> says it never synced.  I uninstalled the app, trashed preferences,  
> but it won't sync at all.  In fact I have now reached my maximum  
> number of connects today, and now I have to wait 24 hours!  This is  
> crazy.
>
> How do I get it to sync again?  Where is that address book and  
> calendar message coming from?  I didn't check the don't show this  
> message again, so it shouldn't have disappeared forever.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Charles
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Brian M. Criscuolo
Senior Software Engineer
Mark/Space, Inc.
bcriscuolo at markspace.com
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