Thanks Ron, that's very helpful.

I may not be on-site where the issue is until next week, but I'll
definitely give your suggestions a try then.

> First you need to look at the real log file.  I'm not running the 3.7.2
> clinet I'm still on 3.2 for windows.  and I believe the log location
> changed slightly.  In 3.2 the file is located in C:\Documents and
> Settings\UserID\Local Settings\Application Data\simias\Simias.log
>
> You can set this file to log ag DEBUG level by editing the Simias.log4net
> file in the same directory (similar directory for 3.7.2)
>
> Change the first line that says:
>
>   <level value="INFO" />
> to
>   <level value="DEBUG" />
>
> Save the file.  You will not need to restart anything, it will immediately
> start logging debug information.
>
> Force a sync and then check the Simias.log file and see if any of the
> files are identified.
>
> Some times this problem is only solveable on the server side.  It is
> possible that there is an entry in the iFolder database on the server for
> a particular file, but that file may not exist on the file system on the
> server.  If this is the case the server will tell the client it has x
> files to sync, but because the file doesn't exit it can not sync the file.
>
> We don't have any tools to remove the invalid records from the database,
> so the only way I have found to fix this issue is to go into the data
> directory on the server and create a file with the name of the file that
> is missing.  Let it sync to the client, then delete it from the client and
> the record will be removed along with the file.
>
> An easy way to find these types of errors on the server is to have debug
> logging turned on, then grep the Simias.log file for these words "Could
> not find file"  (e.g.  grep Simias.log "Could not find file"
>
> It will return something like this:
> Could not find file
> "/opt/ifolder3/ifolder3data/simias/SimiasFiles/c2514f11-7623-4abe-9f4d-62b1c5e3393d/Admin/PM/Unified
> Methodology/Novell Unified Delivery Process ver11.odp".
>
> OR a missing directory would look like this:
> Could not find a part of the path
> "/opt/ifolder3/ifolder3data/simias/SimiasFiles/8a7d52cb-e77b-4ec6-938d-3844c0673c9e/novell/satmetrix/satmetrixNTS/premiumSurvey/q408files".
>
> Feature Request:  a Tool like "gwcheck" maybe, that you could run on the
> client or the server to repair such entries from the database.
>
> Hope this helps.
>
> Ron
>
>
>
>
>
>
>>>> On 7/14/2009 at 1:50 PM, in message
>>>> <[email protected]>,
>>>> "Vince D. Kimball" <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I have a Windows computer and a Macintosh computer with the iFolder 3.7.2
> client on them.  I'm getting a message on each machine that says "3 items
> not synchronized."  If I look at the Synchronization Log on the Mac, there
> is a message "Not Synchronized" followed by the name of the iFolder.
>
> Also it seems that at some points, the iFolder client stops synchronizing
> and I have to stop it and restart to get it to work again.
>
> Any suggestions as to how to troubleshoot this issue?
>
>   -- Vince
>
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