Removing Apple Home Sync

[rgerman]

I am moving away from Apple Portable Home Directories in favor of CrashPlan and would like to stop HomeSyncing on computers that already have Mobile accounts. I am running tests on my own account and am a bit perplexed.No matter what I do my computer keeps trying to HomeSync. I removed my user account from the Directory Group that had home syncing configured. I deleted the managed preferences on my machine, I unbound and rebound the computer. If I run the ID command in terminal it clearly shows I am not part of the Portable Home Directory group. I deleted the MCX plist, I deleted the ~/FileSync folder but my computer is determined to HomeSync. Does anyone know where the settings for home sync are hiding???

BTW - I also ran dscacheutil -flushcache and when I hold the option key when logging into my account, it does not show any Mobile Account group...

[rlandgraf · Accepted solution]

#!/bin/sh

users=`ls /Users| cut -d"/" -f3`
for i in $users; do
    rm -Rf /Users/$i/.FileSync
    rm -Rf /Users/$i/Library/Preferences/com.apple.homeSync.plist
done

This is the script we ran, it seems to still leave the house for the syncing in the status bar but it no longer tries to sync anything.

[musat]

Glad this was posted as we will be turning off Home Sync this Summer and was going to be looking for this at some point.

[musat]

Anyone know a way via script to remove the Home Sync icon? I know you can Command-Drag the icon off the bar, but I don't want to have to explain that to 200 staff members.

[daniel_behan]

I remove it via MCX.

The domain is com.apple.mcxMenuExtras

The Key Name is HomeSync.menu

It's triggered by Boolean