Monthly Archives: February 2010

Missing “sync with google” on mac os 10.5.8 address book

If you want to sync your address book to google, you can do it directly from your address book.
some Leopard macs will not show this options and the following will fix it.

Open terminal
Copy and paste the following:

echo "\"{ Devices = { red-herring = { 'Family ID' = 10001; }; }; }\"" >>
~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.iPod.plist

quit/start your address book

Clean up your mac caches

This is an aggressive fix, but one I had to take after numerous ( thousands ) or syslog errors :

2/3/10 6:08:50 PM   com.apple.launchd.peruser.502[407]  (com.akamai.client.plist) Throttling respawn: Will start in 10 seconds
2/3/10 6:08:59 PM   [0x0-0x12012].com.adiumX.adiumX[452]    (process:452): Json-CRITICAL **: json_node_get_int: assertion `node != NULL' failed
2/3/10 6:09:00 PM   com.apple.launchd.peruser.502[407]  (com.akamai.client.plist[6584]) Bug: launchd_core_logic.c:4103 (23932):13
2/3/10 6:09:00 PM   com.apple.launchd.peruser.502[407]  (com.akamai.client.plist[6584]) posix_spawn("/Applications/Akamai/loader.pl", ...): No such file or directory
2/3/10 6:09:00 PM   com.apple.launchd.peruser.502[407]  (com.akamai.client.plist[6584]) Exited with exit code: 1

I followed this process ( found in mac forums ):

WARNING: “rm -rf” IS A DANGEROUS COMMAND, MAKE SURE YOU KNOW WHAT YOU ARE ERASING !!!

boot to single user : (CMD+Option+S) and run the following commands :

fsck -fy
rm -rf /Library/Caches
rm -rf /Users/YOURUSERNAME/Library/Caches
rm -rf /.Spotlight-V100

reboot