[missing-sync-pocketpc-talk] Calendar and iSync Help

[Thomas Lunde]

> From: Ken Freeman <kfreeman at markspace.com>:
>
> The duplicates are being generated by the backup conduit. Follow these
> steps to delete the backup conduit data on the Mac.
>
> 1) Launch Terminal and type or paste the following line, then hit 
> enter:
> rm -rf /Library/Application Support/SyncServices

Actually, you should use:

rm -rf "/Library/Application Support/SyncServices"

Depending on how your Terminal environment is set up, Ken's command may 
silently fail. If this happens, your old stuff under the SyncServices 
directory will be left behind and you may continue to have problems.

Remembering that space characters are special and dealing with them 
correctly is hard, if one is too used to a traditional Mac environment. 
  Some folk may remember that Apple's installer for iTunes 2.0 had a 
similar problem with the result that customers' hard drives got erased. 
  Oops.

One can deal with file and directory names which include spaces by 
either enclosing the whole thing in quotes (as above), or by 'escaping' 
the space character like so:

rm -rf /Library/Application\ Support/SyncServices

The backslash in front of the space character tells the shell (which is 
the program that is handling your commands in the Terminal program) to 
use the next space as part of the parameter to the command instead of 
as a parameter delimiter.

thomas