Any updates to this? Merge files, sort, scan for dupes? How about a confirmed EXPORT method? Run excels dup finder, and import clean?
On Wednesday, December 23, 2015 at 4:09:47 PM UTC-5, Joel Azaria wrote: > > So, here's an update for ya: > > Somehow or another the entire contents of my Inbox (not Inbox folder > itself but everything under it including my entire speedbox structure) > 'got' deleted. Pretty sure my assistant isn't daft enough to pull that > dumdum and you can bet your a$$ it wasnt' me. Further insult to injury is > that due to the constant F9 syncing she synced past the daily backups limit > so can't recover from there. I did manage to find it in a daily two days > back (not sure why it was two but the previous day didn't have it*) but > those two days held a LOT of changes and I'm finding it very difficult to > isolate the changes in each file. What I need is a way to merge the files > and sus out duplicates. > > So far my direction has been to export both files to mlo xml and open them > in Beyond Compare. At first glance this seems like it should be easy > enough but the files are don't automatically align correctly (I guess due > to the sheer volume of changes i.e moves/deletes) and trying to manually > align the start points of blocks is proving not just time consuming but > quite difficult as there are what appear to be duplications of lines or > even whole xml nodes throughout the file making figuring out the actual > block starts to align on a hair-pulling experience. > > Please please please someone tell me there's a merge tool that does this. > Or at least a deduplication tool that will find exact matches... I can > merge both files wholesale if there's a way to sus out the thousands of > duplicates that will arise after. > > So, MLO's 1990's sync logic strikes again. For something with so much raw > power and flexibility, how can there still be so many holes in it's > foundational basic underpinnings? Even as they announce a $25 price tag on > the mobile apps (and still a license for each platform separately) to > accompany a $60 desktop app but yet can't assure it won't eat data nor have > the tools/facilities to repair such aggrievement when it happens is > asinine. I (and I'm sure many others) are glad to see MLO-A v2 is out and > I know they are still working on it and adding features but it's been said > and here is more proof: the team cannot work on just one platform at a > time. MLO-A development cannot be to the detriment of the desktop or even > the iToy branch. Development on all three must happen in parallel. Now > that android has been refreshed to "match" the i branch they should be > focusing on fixing bugs and missing foundations across the entire platform > instead of wasting dev cycles with the cosmetic refresh they want to call > MLO 5. > > Andrey, I hope you're listening. Releasing MLO 5 and forcing users to pay > an upgrade even as 4 is still full of holes will alienate a large core of > your usership. The cosmetics of 5 will not motivate anyone to upgrade and > frankly I think it's proven out that from mlo-a that halting dev and bug > fixes on a branch to favor a new major release did not garner you a lot of > goodwill. I'm urging you to consider this factor heavily. You need the > core users to evangelize and talk highly about MLO. Everywhere you go on > the interwebz that MLO is discussed, it's rarely if ever a glowing review. > It's always a tempered discussion of (I'm paraphrasing here:) "I tried it, > I hated it, but I went back because it's the only thing so powerful. But > it's clunky and cluttered and has it's issues but if you need that power > you'll have to learn to deal with it." THAT my friend is NOT glowing > endorsement. That's a statement of pure compromise at best and a statement > of defeat and surrender at worst. This is NOT how MLO should be discussed. > This is NOT how mlo should be experienced. This is NOT how you want to be > known. > > > Now someone dear g-d please, tell me an easier way to merge/dedupe my .ml > files!! > > > > * From the sync logs I can see exactly date and time that the deletes > happened, but unfortunately can't tell which side initiated the deletes nor > how the deletes came to pass - ie was it the delete key or as a result of > the conflict resolution dialog - so can't tell if one of us is responsible > or if it was HAL that screwed up or just a glitch in The Matrix > > On Sunday, August 30, 2015 at 6:35:10 PM UTC-4, Joel Azaria wrote: >> >> Thanks Dwight, Christoph. >> >> I ended up sharing one branch to a separate file which her machine then >> syncs that file as well. With the F9 syncing it kind of has a 90's feel to >> it - like I'm constantly saving a wordperfect document. It works in so far >> as it functions and syncs but it's more than just a *little* cumbersome, >> esp. for the year 2015. >> >> There are ways I could suggest to fix this but it seems the real way >> forward is for cloud sync to support syncing branches (which it presently >> does not.) To be an actual solution however it also has to adopt >> push-based syncing (as soon as there's a change, it should be queued to >> push) and a more intelligent automatic record merge /conflict resolution. >> >> This is an area that requires some solid attention and doesn't seem to be >> getting any. Either MLO is an end to end system or it's just a bunch of >> loosely related but in-cohesive parts. >> Cloud sync was pitched as a solver of problems. So far it doesn't appear >> to have done much of that and MLO will not truly be an end to end system >> until it does. >> >> >> Thanks for your advice guys. Let's see how this works in practice over >> the next few weeks.. >> >> -- 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 mylifeorganized+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to mylifeorganized@googlegroups.com. 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/81db5f8c-0048-4a5f-b274-9324159192fa%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
