Hi, Wol. What you say about wifi synch makes sense and I admit to knowing nothing about it. But logic would suggest that when there is a conflict between the two sides, you can have both side ready and able to decide how to resolve the conflict but for each single conflicted item only one side can make the actual decision. When the conflict resolution algorithm is different on the two sides (as it is now) the question of which side decides can make a big difference.
I suspect that each sync, whether manually or automatically initiated, is initiated drom one side with the other side responding. I would be willing to guess that the aide which initiates the sync gets to do the conflict resolution. You can try playing with initiating syncs from wither aide; I suspect that the trick is going to be getting a manual sync initiated before either side runs an automated sync ahead of you. One other suggestion is this: whenever you are about to touch one of your devices after touching the other, no matter how trivial your interaction with each device, initiate a synch before updating any tasks. -Dwight MLO Betazoid on Android SGN4 On Dec 3, 2015, Wallace Gilbraith <[email protected]> wrote: >Thanks Dwight, for your explanation of how the v2 sync works - I wasn't >expecting it to behave quite like that. > >I'm not sure how I can sync only at the Windows end one time, or only >at the Android end another time. The wifi sync synchronizes the two >sides. Unlike cloud sync, there's nowhere 'in between' for either side >to sync *to* before the changes go to the other side. > >I'll have a play with it this evening > >Wol > > >- sent from my phone - please excuse brevity - > >- phone sends from gmail account, but please always mail me at >[email protected] - > > > >-------- Original Message -------- >From: Dwight Arthur <[email protected]> >Sent: 3 December 2015 03:37:18 GMT+00:00 >To: MyLifeOrganized <[email protected]> >Subject: [MLO] Re: Wi-fi sync between Android v2 and Windows - totally >diferent? > >Hi, Wol. There actually is a change (possibly undocumented) in V2 that >might be impacting you. On v1, if the local copy of a task had a change >to >one field (let's say the star) and the copy of the same task coming in >from >sync to android had a change to a different field (let's say due date) >MLO/Android would look at your synch setting for "both sides changed >item". >The setting would either say to keep the local (phone) copy or the >remote >(sync) copy. Which ever way this setting pointed, that's which record >would >be kept and the other one would be discarded. If the same kind of >conflict >happened while synching on windows, you would see a conflict resolution > >screen, have a chance to look at the data from each side and pick one >to be >retained. > >On v2, with the same task that has a new star in the local copy and a >new >due date in the synch copy, MLO/Android will build a new record with >the >star from the local copy and the date from the synch copy. The "both >sides >changed" setting is not used unless the two sides each make a change to >the >same field of the same record. For example, it you make changes to two >different parts of the note of a single task, with one change on >Android >and one on Windows and no synch in between. > >So, I suspect that you are experiencing a synch conflict that used to >go >unnoticed because MLO/Android was retaining the record from one side >and >throwing the other away. > >The way that you described your process, you are making changes only to > >Windows, then you synch and switch to Android and later you synch and >switch back to Windows. Should work perfectly. But I suspect that at >some >point you are getting changes to some tasks made on both sides without >a >synch in between. In other words your switch between Android and >Windows >and your synch may not be happening exactly at the same time. > >Here's how you can isolate the problem. Whenever you synch, force the >processing to happen on the Windows side. I have to admit that I don't >know >how to do that for a wifi synch but I'm assuming that you do know. This > >will make the conflict resolution follow Windows rules, which means >that >you will get a conflict resolution screen. You can open up a task in >the >conflict resolution screen to see a list of fields, flagging the fields > >where updates were found. >You can then tap the "details" icon (I think it's three dots) near the >end >of each task record and see the actual value of the field. So now you >have >a task that should have updates coming from the platform you are >leaving >but no changes coming from the platform you are going to. But it does >have >changes from the platform you are going to. So you can look at the >changes >and try to figure out why they are coming at you from the wrong >platform. > >On Wednesday, December 2, 2015 at 6:32:20 PM UTC-5, Wallace Gilbraith >wrote: >> >> I got notification of Android v2 yesterday, and made sure all my >tasks >> were safely in MLO Windows Desktop before I upgraded. >> Wi-fi sync got all my desktop tasks safely onto Android, and through >the >> day, first impressions of v2 have been favourable. >> However - the wi-fi sync in v2 seems to work totally differently to >that >> in v1.6. >> >> In 2 years of use, my routine has been to set up a list of starred >tasks >> each night, sync to android, work through them next day, and sync >back to >> Windows in the evening, and repeat. >> So long as I'm clear which platform has my active profile (task list) >on, >> it's worked perfectly - Android overwrites Windows, I edit Windows >for >> tomorrows list, Windows overwrites Android, I'm set for tomorrow. >> >> Now with v2, it seems to do an actual 2-way sync, and I've discovered >the >> Windows MLO generates a conflict report, as it thinks items on both >sides >> have changed (actually only the Android items have changed). >> >> Syncing from Android to Windows, recurring tasks I've checked off and > >> un-starred on Android today were still showing on my starred list in >> Windows this evening. So I un-starred them all in Windows. >> Syncing back from Windows to Android, those same tasks which I've >checked >> off and un-starred during today, and which were un-starred in >Windows, are >> now showing up on Android in my Starred list, with their next due >dates and >> starred. I'm now un-starring them on Android too. >> >> Can any of the beta testers, who have been using this for some time, >offer >> any advice? >> Maybe the advice is, pay for cloud sync. Or, stop trying to manage my >list >> manually and get with the auto-sort programme. >> >> Thanks in anticipation >> >> Wol >> >> >> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MyLifeOrganized" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/mylifeorganized. 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