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Recover iSync after removing it from OSX

One of these days, accidentally, I removed isync from my mac. After *a lot* of googling around I found this page that saved my life: http://www.feisar.com/isync_tips.html

Here are the steps. You can do one of 3 things to restore isync:

  1. Restore iSync from your Time Machine backup (or any other backup you’ve made).
  2. Copy a fresh, unmodified version of iSync from another Mac running the same version of Mac OS X.
  3. Re-install iSync from the original Mac OS X Installation Disks by following the instructions below:
    1. Download Pacifist (a program that allows installing parts of Mac OS X)
    2. Insert your original Mac OS X Installation Disk.
    3. Open Pacifist and click ‘Open Apple Install Discs’.
    4. Wait while it loads the packages.
    5. In the window that appears, type ‘iSync’ into the Find dialog at the top and press return.
    6. Click once on the ‘iSync.app’ it finds, then click ‘Install’ at the top of the window.
    7. Follow the instructions to install it.
    8. Then you must download and install the latest Mac OS X Combo Updater for your Mac from Apple (even if its already installed), to update iSync from the newly installed version to the very latest version.

Happy syncing ;)

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