Where is isync on my mac lion

Everything will be as it was. The demise of PowerPC emulation has been long in coming, and was not really a surprise, given that it has been 6 years since Intel became the official CPU for Apple machines.

The main impact really seems to be for Quicken users, which might actually be a blessing in disguise, given how pathetic Quicken really was on the Mac. However, iSync has been a key feature of the OS for me, as I carry a non-iOS phone a Nokia E71 actually , and being able to seamlessly synchronize my contacts and calendars with the phone using iSync made it a key part of my workflow I even have some Automator scripts to make this easier.

And iSync has been able to synchronize over Bluetooth, unlike the tethered experience with the iOS devices so far though OTA sync is on the way with iOS 5 later this fall.

Alas, OS X Lion removes the iSync application from the hard disk once it is installed, and for a time I thought that this was end of the line for the convenience I had with the E71, and would need to go back to the darks days of manual data entry for the addresses manual entry of calendar entries is too much of a hassle on the phone, and would need to be dropped all together. Before installation of Lion, I had taken a full disk image of my previous Snow Leopard installation using the excellent SuperDuper!

Disk cloner. This was more from a backup and recovery perspective, but allowed me an unexpected solution to the iSync quandary — on a whim, I attached the Snow Leopard disk to the Mac running Lion, and clicked on the iSync application. In hindsight, this is not really surprising, since iSync really has been a front end for the underlying sync services which are still around in Lion , and for managing phone and device specific plugins. In summary, while Apple in its immense wisdom took out a feature that was useful to some albeit a minority , getting it to work again was surprisingly easy.

Will need to check out the situation with FrontRow next time. Looks like a similar recovery process exists for FrontRow as well. See this article at Macworld. View all posts by evolve So taking out this feature silently is not a cool move by Apple, to put it mildly.

I find this situation very uncomfortable. The core sync services frameworks within OS X and as carried over into Lion are definitely mainstream, as they support other sync facilities such as the iOS sync from iTunes, and also MobileMe. I do not anticipate this going away any time soon. So, it may be there right now, but it could disappear at any time my guess is when MobileMe is finally killed off in June Someone can help me further?

Thanks in advance, Aldo aldo. And just a tip: You can also download I am not sure whether it is completely legal to share the iSync image file online due to copyright issues. However, some of the Mac OSX Combo updates available on their download site do contain the iSync package, and you might be able to use Pacifist to extract it from there. It is absolutely unfair if not unethical for Apple fans who also use Nokia or such other phones to find to their shock that iSync has been removed arbitrarily only after down loading the new Mac OS after paying the required price.

Atleast Apple should have fore warned their fans on their decision. Am sure, they will view the sentiments of several millions of their fans and release an immediate update incorporating back the iSync.

This is unfortunate. It will be installed with the Apple Developer Tools. What does the hint mean by 'the iSync folder'? Search Advanced. From our Sponsor Latest Mountain Lion Hints Click here for complete coverage of Lion on Macworld. User Functions Username: Password:. What's New in the Forums? Sign up using Email and Password. Post as a guest Name. Email Required, but never shown. The Overflow Blog. Does ES6 make JavaScript frameworks obsolete? Podcast Do polyglots have an edge when it comes to mastering programming Featured on Meta.

Now live: A fully responsive profile. Related 1. Hot Network Questions. Maybe it opens up space for third party developers, which, naturally will charge for their apps. I resent having to pay for something that should be part of the operating system. It also challenges cell phone manufacturers to develop their own sync software, but many still only live in the Windows world. Dec 9, PM. It's not feasible, or technically possible for Apple to obtain every third-party mobile phone, and write software that supports the thousands of variations in mobile OSs and sync methods.

Like printers, scanners, digital cameras and other electronic accessories, the manufacturers of those devices are the best placed to provide the best support for those devices, especially when released.

Also, iSync only ever supported 'feature phones' - not smart phones. All the world's major phone manufacturers are quickly moving away from making basic phones, so as time goes on, iSync would be less and less useful. Finally, from a purely business perspective, why would Apple spend valuable time and resources supporting other manufacturers phones for free, when they would prefer you bought an Apple device?

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