Do you get a lot of sync conflicts you have to resolve?

Lisa

On Wed, Aug 1, 2012 at 4:52 PM, <[email protected]> wrote:

> 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.****
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> *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****
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> Hi Dwight. I was gone all weekend but finally got a (brief) chance to read
> through your reply. ****
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> 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. ****
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> 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. ****
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> 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.****
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> Lisa****
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> On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 3:13 PM, <[email protected]> wrote:****
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> 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.*****
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> *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.*****
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