fwiw and I really don't want to add any confusion to this thread but I cannot make mine break
I have been playing with this since yesterday trying to replicate what is happening and I cannot. All parts of this, parent, child, notes, re-occurence, times, everything sync flawlessly and without conflicts of any type and all notes are intact. no matter which direction I start the sync or which direction I make changes. very strange. wish I could help On Wed, Aug 1, 2012 at 7:44 PM, Lisa Stroyan <lstro...@gmail.com> wrote: > Do you get a lot of sync conflicts you have to resolve? > > Lisa > > On Wed, Aug 1, 2012 at 4:52 PM, <m...@grantsmiths.org> 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:* mylifeorganized@googlegroups.com [mailto: >> mylifeorganized@googlegroups.com] *On Behalf Of *Lisa Stroyan >> *Sent:* Wednesday, August 01, 2012 10:46 AM >> *To:* mylifeorganized@googlegroups.com >> *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, <m...@grantsmiths.org> 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: lstro...@gmail.com <lstro...@gmail.com> **** >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "MyLifeOrganized" group. >> To post to this group, send email to mylifeorganized@googlegroups.com. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> mylifeorganized+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> 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 mylifeorganized@googlegroups.com. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> mylifeorganized+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/mylifeorganized?hl=en. >> > > > > -- > Lisa > > ------------------------------ > Lisa Stroyan, mailto: lstro...@gmail.com <lstro...@gmail.com> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MyLifeOrganized" group. > To post to this group, send email to mylifeorganized@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > mylifeorganized+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > 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. 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