For what it's worth, the discussion below mentioned so many times that there should be fewer problems if Android synched first, so I decided to try to force it. I have adopted the following routine: whenever I sit down at my computer after a while away from it, before touching the computer I take out my phone and synch MLO to cloud. Then I go on about my business. It's annoying and time consuming but problems with my daily routine are way down. I still experienced one incident where I had started a new cycle of the monthly routine and clicked off a few tasks and the next morning I found computer and phone both back to a fresh cycle with nothing checked off. I may have missed once at synching the phone before touching the computer. But generally, this seems to be a workaround.
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Lisa Stroyan Sent: Wednesday, August 01, 2012 10:46 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [MLO] android/windows sync issues Hi Dwight. I was gone all weekend but finally got a (brief) chance to read through your reply. In short, I really don't know how modification times effect things, other than I'm pretty sure both platforms use them for conflict resolution. I do believe that any time a task is marked as modified it will get synced, irrelevant of how old the time is. But I've not seen a case where a parent is marked as modified based on a child attribute change, unless the automatic sync is triggered -- but that doesn't mean it won't happen. You know, I've been thinking about how several of us have suggested a new feature for the desktop where different actions can be triggered based on different criteria. I'm now thinking the sync architecture would have to be improved before this feature could be implemented, since it would really bring existing problems to the fore. Lisa On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 3:13 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: If a single subtask is changed, I don't get the parent marked as modified. But if I change the note of "Testparent" on Android, then complete and auto-recur Testparent on the PC, sync PC, and sync Android, the changed note will be lost on Android. Is that what you mean? But you see it sometimes *without* the recurrence happening? I have not been paying attention to date/time of modification. Are you certain that a task is subject to synch if AND ONLY IF date/time of modification is sufficiently recent? Without thinking too much about it I had assumed that date/time of modification was a sufficient but not necessary condition, and that other factors could also trigger a task to be candidate for sync. I have not been able to reproduce this and am not 100% certain that it happens as I describe it, but I have a sense that completing a subtask of a recurring task that recurs based on subtask completion, would cause the parent to sync even if its modification date was unchanged. -- Lisa _____ Lisa Stroyan, mailto: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MyLifeOrganized" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/mylifeorganized?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MyLifeOrganized" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/mylifeorganized?hl=en.
