I use a Mac Pro for work and I have a black MacBook for everything else. Managing two sets of keychains, calendars and bookmarks can become a giant pain (“I thought I bookmarked that site…oooh, it must be on the other computer”). Thankfully, .Mac sync keeps the important stuff synchronized between both machines. Mostly. Recently both my keychains and bookmarks had not been syncing properly and nothing I tried fixed the problem.

I was about to give up when I found these instructions on Ars Technica for fully resetting your .Mac syncing. The instructions are straightforward and easy to follow. I followed the procedure on both of my Macs and everything seemed to be golden again. Except bookmarks. My bookmarks would not sync at all.

Turns out there is a problem with .Mac syncing and Safari 3.1. I found a solution thanks to a post on DaringFireball that pointed to an Apple support document. The solution is to quit Safari, run the following command and then restart Safari and sync again:

defaults delete com.apple.safari RegisteredSafariSyncClient

Everything seems to be syncing smoothly again. For now.

Tags: .mac, sync