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Looking on the Panic website, for some information about Transmit, the FTP client I use, I came across the following in the support section:
I no longer use Transmit. How can I remove Transmit from my .Mac Sync preferences?

Awkwardly, Apple doesn't provide a way to remove these items. But, if you're running Transmit 3.5.1, type this into Terminal:
~/Library/Application\ Support/Transmit/TransmitSync.app/Contents/\
MacOS/TransmitSync --unregisterClient
That should remove Transmit from the list.
This suggests that you can remove other apps from the Sync Services, either if you don't use them, or if you simply don't want to sync their items. I haven't tested this, but the syntax looks like it should work with any application, as long as you find the exact location for the program's sync engine.

There seems to be no logic as to how applications organize their sync engines; Apple allows developers to put them anywhere, as long as they declare the path when registering the sync engine. Transmit stores its sync engine within a user's home folder, but other applications put them in locations that are accessible to all users.

Checking Yojimbo , the only other application I have installed that also uses .Mac syncing, I cannot find the same type of sync application; however, digging in the ~/Library/Applications Support/SyncServices/Local/isync.amdimnarchive file, I find that it is located here: /Applications/Yojimbo.app/Contents/Resources/YojimboSyncNotifier. This file keeps records of all the sync services installed, along with the paths to their sync engines. Apple's Sync Services Programming Guide gives the under-the-hood details, but does not specify a location for the actual sync engines for different applications.
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Remove applications from Sync Services database
Authored by: rhowell on Apr 24, '06 08:50:23AM

I was the one that posted that question to the folks at Panic :-)

Looks like I'll have to install Transmit again to remove its .Mac sync entry...



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Authored by: jackb79 on Apr 24, '06 10:35:13AM

I tried this and I couldn't get it to work... I even dl'd the newest version of transmit and nothing.... any suggestions?



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Authored by: bed124 on Apr 24, '06 05:15:03PM
There's a developer's application called Syncrospector that will allow you to unregister applications ... and more!

It appears that you can download this tool if you have at least an "Online" membership (which is free).

The team finds this quite useful while doing Groupcal development.

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Authored by: luomat on Apr 24, '06 11:21:32PM
http://developer.apple.com/samplecode/StickiesExample/StickiesExample.html has “StickiesExample.zip” or “StickiesExample.dmg” available for download by ANYONE and appears to contain the Syncrospector program.

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Authored by: luomat on Apr 25, '06 12:28:10AM

Apparently Syncrospector doesn't work for > 10.4.3 unless you are using a version of it greater than is available to free ADC members.



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Authored by: cdaiger on Apr 28, '06 02:59:27PM

Where do you download this? No search function on the ADC site. Thanks!



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Authored by: jackb79 on Apr 29, '06 12:51:27AM

I found it on the ADC site but I have NO idea on how to use it... search for stickies and it should pop up



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