Okay, I disabled auto syncing in iTunes, went into iSync and enabled the menu bar item, quit iSync, added a new "test" even to today in iCal, and tried syncing from the menu bar. While the "chasing arrows" spun for a while, I don't think it did anything. The test item didn't show up in my calendar on my iPhone, and I got no sync notification on my iPhone.

Can somebody confirm whether or not this actually works?



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Didn't work for me because I don't have dot-mac. All the options in the pref pane are grayed out. The sync menubar doesn't do anything for me.

Or have a missed something?

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Same here. I don't see why you'd need to have .Mac to sync your iPhone though. The arrows spin but as far as I can tell, nothing happens.

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For people having a problem with inconsitent results, I may have a solution -- it cleared-up my problems.

1) Close all open applications
2) Open iSync.
3) Go to Preferences and Reset Sync History.
4) Quit iSync.
5) Open iSync again -- this time you'll notice a message on the window about reconnecting to AddressBook and Calendar.
6) When iSync finishes (the message goes away), quit iSync.

Now, try your sync again. You can use either the circular arrows on the menu bar (that will sync AddressBook and iCal without loading iTunes), or you can bring up iTunes and sync there.

The process actaully updates files in your ~/Library/Application Support/SyncServices folder. Try it and see if it helps.

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