.Mac Sync / iSync

I'm apparently having trouble with either or both of .Mac Sync and iSync. I've got iSync v2.4 running under OS X 10.4.9. When I open iSync, there's the .mac icon, and when I click on it I get the message about no longer using iSync to synchronise information across computers etc. That's fine. However, I am using iSync to sync information from my phone. The problem is this: the iSync icon in the menu bar seems to actually be a .Mac sync icon. When I click on it, the drop-down menu has a date with the last .Mac sync, an option for "Sync Now", and an option for "Open .Mac Sync Preferences". This is the case even though I enabled "Show status in menu bar" in iSync, and the icon goes away if I then uncheck the "Show status in menu bar" option in the .Mac preferences. According to the help file, though, I should be able to have an iSync icon in the menu bar with an option to sync my phone, and I should also be able to click on iSync in the Dock and see an option to sync (that's not happening either).
Any thoughts?
Thanks

Welcome to Apple Discussions.
I'm surprised that you didn't notice this behavior before, as it has been the manner in which the Sync Now icon in the menu bar has operated ever since the release of iSync 2 and Mac OS X 10.4.
Julian Wright wrote a small application to restore such functionality, not to the icon in the menu bar, but to a replacement for the iSync alias in your Dock. More about that issue and his application can be found here:
http://mobile.feisar.com/syncnow.html

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http://discussions.apple.com/forum.jspa?forumID=957
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