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
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
I use a time machine backup to build MAC’s for our employees, saves me time on install and configurations, however our MAC users use office 2008 and require a unique key from our licensed copy. to re enter the office serial I just run the following two commands in terminal :
rm "/Applications/Microsoft Office 2008/Office/OfficePID.plist"
rm "~/Library/Preferences/Microsoft/Office 2008/Microsoft Office 2008 Settings.plist"
and re launch office.
Full thread I found is here , below is the short version on how to remove the extended attributes and possible ACL’s. Leopard adds an ACL called com.apple.quarantine to your download apps :
1. Open the Terminal
2. List the attributes of the app you are having issue with ( in this example , skype )
mac: moti$ xattr -l /Applications/Skype.app
com.apple.quarantine: 0000;49d521d9;Firefox;|org.mozilla.firefox
Remove the “com.apple.quatantine” attribute if it is defined
sudo xattr -d com.apple.quarantine /Applications/Skype.app
3. Check the attributes again
mac: moti$ xattr -l /Applications/Skype.app
mac: moti$com.apple.quarantine should not be listed.