Making Sync icon go away...

[petestein1]

Hopefully someone out there can help a relative newbie to Macs (whose otherwise pretty computer capable).

Somehow in restoring my iPhon I got a sync icon permanently placed in my menu bar.

It reads:

Sync Now
Enable .Mac syncing

I checked the machine-wide preferences. I checked the iTunes preferences. I don't see how to make it go away.

Any ideas? It's not really causing a problem -- it's just cluttering things up.

Thanks!

 

[petestein1]

Never mind - solved it.

A bit of googling turned up a solution.

Some claim you can check a box in system preferences for .mac -- I don't have such preferences... I wonder if they went away with 10.5.2?

Anyway, apparently you can control-drag any icon off the menu bar.

Problem solved.

 

[soctechnologist]

I'm having an issue making the .mac sync icon STAY away. I've command dragged the icon off my menu bar multiple times and it reappears after every machine restart. I don't have an option in my .mac system preferences for this. The issue started with my update to 10.5.2. Any advice or strategies?

 

[mackindergarten]

Hi!

The synchronization icon is hidden in the iSync Preferences. To disable the menu bar icon, open iSync (Applications/iSync.app) open up the Preferences and and uncheck "Show status in menu bar".

/Rupert

 

[soctechnologist]

Yeah, I discovered it under isync, hadn't thought to look there. Thanks!