Oh for the record, I came to the forums today to report that MLO yesterday ate the exact same branch AGAIN.
Thankfully I have the tools and know-how/skillset to recover from this (AGAIN) but even then it is *T E D I O U S.* And frankly wearing thin. Honestly, how a simple sync can be so damned broken is ponderous. It's 2016. Is it so wrong to expect certain things to just work? Frankly most of the ins and outs of sync were worked out in the 90's. I don't remember having nearly as many problems syncing DOZENS of apps (and one in particular that was EXTREMELY SIMILAR to MLO) on the Palm platform. That covers a Palm III, a IIIxe, a Handspring Visor, a Tungsten E, then a Treo 600 a 755 and then a Centro - some 15 years +/- of usage - with all my apps and data carrying through day by day, device to device, with hardly ever a data loss that came from sync (actually none that I remember but let's be realistic, it *could* have happened and I don't recall, we're talking at least 5-7 years ago I left the platform and my tenure spans back to the very early 90's) If sync logic and conflict resolution was worked out that far back, what Mars Rover challenges has MLO introduced in the last 5-10 years that are so difficult to overcome? Or is the sync just not well conceived... I'd have to vote for the latter because in 2016, data loss is just verboten. We're not talking about an amateur programmer and some shareware hack - this is a $70 per license, supposedly polished, business productivity app. Data loss = face palm fail. On Thursday, December 24, 2015 at 4:10:45 PM UTC-5, Joel Azaria wrote: > > I don't specifically agree with the web version idea but a better sharing > and collab function I can definitely get behind. > As it stands there is a most rudimentary sharing that can use a shared > folder on the local network (LAN) or an FTP server and you can share the > whole file or just selective branches. If you want to share the whole file > I think cloud sync works as well but cloud sync won't support selective > branch sharing. And syncing is a manual process (remember to press F9 or > changes won't propagate to the shared file). It works decently* but has a > very 1990's feel to it. > Conflict resolution (ie. if two people change the same record > before/between syncs) is very much a manual process and better make sure > people on both ends of the sync KNOW HOW to navigate it or expect someone > will get into trouble. > > And for my 2c it's exactly that 1990's manual sync/conflict resolution > logic that has to enter the 21st century before any of this can happen. So > long as all of this is manual (and the Cloud Sync service has done little > if anything to improve this) any attempt at improving collaboration is just > putting lipstick on a pig. > > My 2c. Possibly worth exactly what you paid for them... > > > > > *it worked for me for a while but just the other day I lost an entire > branch (my entire Inbox and Speedox) that I was sharing with my assistant. > We cannot tell for sure if the problem was caused by the sync or by manual > error. Make sure to crank up MLO's backup settings to the max (30 > versions, use dailies, weeklies, monthlies and if I think of any other ways > to capture add'l/further backups I'll be all over that too.) Just a full > disclosure fyi. > > On Thursday, December 24, 2015 at 4:32:02 AM UTC-5, Transisto wrote: >> >> I've been looking at MLO for many years but never got to using it because >> there is no and I fear there will never be any sharing and collaborating >> feature. >> >> Maybe having a webapp view where the employee can just mark as completed >> or add comments to a list of task to do. >> >> I'm currently using workflowy for that. I think MLO is missing out on >> the network effect by not allowing a functional but limited free version >> that is web based. >> > -- 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 https://groups.google.com/group/mylifeorganized. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/mylifeorganized/26a2920c-5998-4d16-93dc-1601b6d47494%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
