Yojimbo 1.5 and sync services

[John Siracusa]

When I last dealt with Yojimbo sync issues, the bottom line seemed to
be that Apple hadn't intended sync services to deal with the type and
volume of data that Yojimbo can throw at it (the best example being
the sync conflict dialog's uselessness (best case) or infinite
beachball hang (typical case) when trying to present a resolution
dialog for a large chunk of binary data).

Now that Yojimbo 1.5 and Leopard are both here, can someone from BB
give an update on the situation?  Has Apple beefed up sync services so
that it can handle Yojimbo-type loads?  Is there anything BB can do or
is doing to be gentler to sync services?  What's the future look like
for pushing big binary blobs through .Mac sync?

-John

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Re: Yojimbo 1.5 and sync services

[TjL]

On an anecdotal level, here's my story.

I've got a 1.5mbps DSL line at my office which no one else was using.

I have a little over 1100 items in my Yojimbo DB (which weighs in at
about 162mb).

.Mac routinely throws up all over itself trying to sync Yojimbo even
when left alone untouched not-even-running during the sync process.

What does .Mac tell me?

The sync failed because of an error.

As I wrote on my website:

Oh, it failed because of an error.

Gee, thanks.

What-the-blank else other than an error would cause it to fail?

Here's what it would look like if .Mac wrote up death certificates:

Patient died due to death.

Failed due to an error…. DUH!

Grrr.


Long story short, I wouldn't rely on it if I were you.

Short addendum: I'm not sure there's anything BB can do.  This one is
up to Apple to fix.

Every January I hope to hear that something amazing is going to happen
with .Mac.

Every year it's a disappointment.

Last year's big news: 10GB of space!

Yippee.  I've got like 300gb of space from Dreamhost for about the
same price.  10gb, give me a break.  Yeah, I can upload all my
pictures and video now! (*)


(*) 128x128 pictures or YouTube quality only

TjL

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