Upgradedb error after Leopard u/g

[Giaguara]

Hm. Do you have LittleSnitch on or any firewall settings (also on router side etc)?
It tries to contact syncserver but can't.

[Dabow]

Hi Giaguara,

Nope, nothing like that. To be honest, the more I use Leopard, the more errors I'm starting to see. My iTunes would no longer sync with my iPod, so I had to do an OS backup and restore to get around that problem. Entourage periodically bombs out for no good reason, other applications also periodically crash whereas they didn't before I moved to this OS. In terms of config, nothing has changed from my previous OS (i.e. I haven't modified any settings), so this really does look like a Leopard problem, and I'm beginning to regret more and more moving to the latest Mac OS instead of waiting for it to be a bit more stable. My whole reason for moving from Windows to Mac was stability, and my move to Tiger was a smooth one. I hope this isn't the sign of a downturn in Mac s/w quality control i.e. the users become the beta testers, as they do with Microsoft s/w

[Giaguara]

Hi Dabow, do you have 10.5.1 update installed yet? That should solve some of the first glitches. And this error popping on the screen is for sure frustrating.
All software are thoroughly tested before they ship, but as there are millions of ways to use software and sometimes the other software are not up to date, that could cause that some of the software fully compatible with previous versions of OS X will also need an update. Still that looks like something that is from OS X fails to upgrade (that database).
I hope 10.5.1 would solve this for you.

[Dabow]

Yup, I installed 10.5.1 a couple of days ago and still the errors persist

[eduviges]

I'm back on 10.4.11, but I remember the upgradedb error when trying to use Daylite or Entourage.
Daylite would not even launch. With Entourage I dismissed the message and things seemed to work fine.
I got the same message as the one pictured in this blog:
http://netmesh.info/jernst/Personal/index.html

[Syncopator]

Originally Posted by Giaguara

Ah excellent, so

trash[ing] the ~/Library/Application Support/SyncServices/Local/ folder did it then...
(Just in case the discussions thread linked would get archived or deleted etc).
Usually touching that folder brings good karma but glad that it's fixed now

Giaguara, you rock! I was having the exact same symptoms and was losing my mind. Found absolutely nothing useful in the Apple discussions, but eventually ended up here.

Found this thread, trashed the folder referenced above, and voila -- I'm back up and running.

Thank you!!!

[Giaguara]

Excellent older discussions at applr's site tend to disappear too fast indeed (so glad you found this///0...

[carlofelice]

Originally Posted by Giaguara

Ah excellent, so

trash the ~/Library/Application Support/SyncServices/Local/ folder did it then...
(Just in case the discussions thread linked would get archived or deleted etc).
Usually touching that folder brings good karma but glad that it's fixed now

I don't have the folder SyncServices, what can I do?