[NTLK] So... am I correct in deducing that, since iSync i...

[Forrest]

Simon: Thanks for your input. I was hoping you might be monitoring the List. As for what I found after I "looked it up online", there was nothing that suggested that the omission of iSync in Lion would in any way affect NCX. That is an observation I myself made, based on my admittedly limited knowledge of iSync.

If anyone has any experience running NCX with 10.7 Lion please post here to the List. I'm curious, per Simon's comment: "The impression I get from the occasional correspondent is that NCX does work on OS X Lion, but I can’t confirm that first-hand."

I know I haven't spent hours attempting various methods in getting it to run, but can report that neither v1.3 Build 42 nor Build 44 won't start up properly (or at all) on my system (MacBook Pro late 2007 2.2GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, 4GB RAM, 1TB HDD).

Thanks,
--Forrest

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On Aug 30, 2012, at 3:05 AM, Simon Bell wrote:

> 
> On 30 Aug 2012, at 09:52, Forrest Buffenmyer wrote:
> 
>> So... am I correct in deducing that, since iSync is no longer supported in OS X 10.7 Lion, Simon Bell's NCX no longer functions either, as it appears to be dependent on it? 
> 
> The impression I get from the occasional correspondent is that NCX does work on OS X Lion, but I can’t confirm that first-hand. All I can say is that the last release of NCX (v1.3 build 44, available at <http://newtonresearch.org/connection/>) does work on OS X Snow Leopard.
> 
> Although the iSync app no longer exists in OS X Lion, the underlying Sync Services framework is still very much alive. It is that framework that NCX uses to synchronise Names with Address Book. I would say this is not the source of the failure to launch:
> 
>> I tried running the version I already had before (v1.3 Build 42), with Snow Leopard, and it bounced in the Dock for about a minute before vanishing, I downloaded Build 44, then when that failed I looked it up online.
> 
> I do know that the Backup Inspector fails to launch on OS X Lion unless you rename it BackupInspector (ie without a space in the name).
> 
> Simon
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