Every now and then I have to do things I don’t particularly enjoy, but even then it’s satisfying to get things to work. This is still not done, but I’m on the homestretch in the preparation portion.
Next comes the tedium of upgrading eight servers, but with this working that should be less painful. And also? Dealing with kickstart on a “foreign” distro (I’m a Debian guy by preference) is probably some useful work experience.
Mac OS X: Do not remove or modify the SyncServices folder Last Modified: September 18, 2009 Article: HT1865 Old Article: 301920
Summary
As if it were a swarm of bees, you should stay away from the SyncServices folder. Removing or modifying anything in the SyncServices folder—or in any subfolders within it—may cause unexpected issues. (This folder is located in your Application Support folder, in your Library folder, in your Home folder.) Deleting or modifying things in the SyncServices folder may cause unexpected results such as:
Duplicate contacts in Address Book or appointments in iCal. Data loss in Address Book or iCal. Important: Any lost or duplicate data could propagate to other devices and computers via iSync and MobileMe sync. This means data could be lost on other computers.
(via tbridge)
Have you looked at the internals? It’s Perl. Of COURSE Perl programmers write documentation like that.
Mail.app stores meta information in its Envelope Index, a sqlite database. Sometimes this database gets corrupted and you’ll have weird things like duplicated messages (that aren’t really duplicated) or messages that appear not to have senders or subjects (even though they do). If this happens to you, quit Mail, look in ~/Library/Mail for the file named “Envelope Index”, move it to the Desktop or the Trash, then launch Mail again. You’ll get a dialog asking if you want to import now or later, and you should click the button for now.
Then wait.
Side note: I’m almost at 100K total messages stored. I wonder how many I get per day now.
