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.**** > > ** ** > > *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] <[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. > -- Lisa ------------------------------ Lisa Stroyan, mailto: [email protected] <[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.
