How to Really Reset your .Mac Sync Data
I haven't tried this + all the usual YMMV stuff, but might be of interest to many here: How-To: Truly reset your .Mac sync data By David Chartier | Published: February 25, 2008 - 03:28PM CT As many users of syncing products know, sync can be tricky. Items can sometimes get duplicated or not synced at all, and getting the system working again can be an exercise in witchcraft. Apple's .Mac syncing features are sometimes no exception to these problems, and even though Apple provides a number of decent solutions in its .Mac sync support pages, they don't always work. Fortunately, a brief adventure using .Mac sync chat support (found at the bottom of that aforelinked page) cleared up a repeating merge/overwrite sync dialog problem for me, and we felt the procedure was worth sharing. full article here: http://arstechnica.com/journals/apple.ars/2008/02/25/how-to-truly-reset-your-mac-sync-data -- -- This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list yojimbo-talk@barebones.com. To unsubscribe, send mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] List archives: http://www.listsearch.com/yojimbotalk.lasso Have a feature request, or not sure if the software's working correctly? Please send mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
.mac sync
While I was able to do an initial sync between two Leopard macs with my .mac account, it doesn't seem to update now. I just did a sync on my source mac, then synced my other mac, and even told it to reset it's data to .mac, but I didn't get any changes from the source mac, including new notes and new categories. When a hard reset doesn't even work, what can I do next? Note that my login name on the two macs are different, but they are both using the same .mac account. Thanks, Jeff -- -- This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list yojimbo-talk@barebones.com. To unsubscribe, send mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] List archives: http://www.listsearch.com/yojimbotalk.lasso Have a feature request, or not sure if the software's working correctly? Please send mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: .mac sync
On 1/19/08, Jeff Schmitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: While I was able to do an initial sync between two Leopard macs with my .mac account, it doesn't seem to update now. I just did a sync on my source mac, then synced my other mac, and even told it to reset it's data to .mac, but I didn't get any changes from the source mac, including new notes and new categories. When a hard reset doesn't even work, what can I do next? I've been trying to figure out just that same thing. I haven't been able to get it to work. I'm planning to try SyncTogether from MarkSpace. The current beta is apparently Leopard compatible. Some day .Mac syncing won't suck. I hope I'm still alive to see it. TjL -- -- This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list yojimbo-talk@barebones.com. To unsubscribe, send mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] List archives: http://www.listsearch.com/yojimbotalk.lasso Have a feature request, or not sure if the software's working correctly? Please send mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: .mac sync
On Jan 19, 2008, at 10:29 AM, Jeff Schmitz wrote: When a hard reset doesn't even work, what can I do next? Write barebones support, they have a procedure that will fix the problem. My experience with Sync and Yojimbo is that it works, and works well, most of the time. However, I've had several incidents where the sync failed, and left the entire process so corrupted that Apple's reset function was unable to reset the mechanism. I've thrown so much time down a black hole with this, its sad. The fix that Bare Bones provided has worked, but it allows very little leeway - follow it to the letter. Good luck, b P.S. While I was able to use sync successfully for nearly a year, I've had enough problems with it that I dare to suggest that its not especially robust (on Apple's end, not Bare Bones) for large data sets. My library was several hundred megabytes, and while incremental changes over time worked flawlessly, a full reset would always time out on re-upload. My DSL upload speed isn't especially fast, so that's certainly part of it. I've chosen to use Yojimbo sync for smaller items, and have moved larger mobile data sets to a keychain flash drive. Its not as elegant, but then neither is wasting hours trying to troubleshoot broken sync sessions. -- -- This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list yojimbo-talk@barebones.com. To unsubscribe, send mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] List archives: http://www.listsearch.com/yojimbotalk.lasso Have a feature request, or not sure if the software's working correctly? Please send mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Question about .MAC sync
I have a screwed up Yojimbo State. One machine crashed, and left bad state on .MAC for Yojimbo. So i went to a good machine, reset the Yojimbo state on .MAC using that machine. Go to the other machine and say: replace from .MAC. Works. So everything is back in order, but everytime i sync on the 2nd machine, i get now: your Yojimbo items on .MAC have been reset, do you want to replace/merge them.. Sometimes i also get a inconsistency detected. I am kind of clueless on how to consistently fix my .MAC state so that the laptop (2nd machine) will now no longer complain... I tried: several times the replace from A to .MAC, replace from .MAC to B. Syncrospector. Unregister the client on B. Anything else? I searched the Barebones site about this, but was unable to find anything. Frank -- -- This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list yojimbo-talk@barebones.com. To unsubscribe, send mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] List archives: http://www.listsearch.com/yojimbotalk.lasso Have a feature request, or not sure if the software's working correctly? Please send mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Question about .MAC sync
On May 16, 2007, at 4:37 PM, Frank Mantek wrote: Been there. Done that. No help. Consistently now, every hour, my laptop syncs, get's items on .MAC were replaced, i choose replace/merge (does not matter, really), and later on i get inconsistencies detected. The items though are all on the laptop, i just don't really care like touching data right now:) The way I get it usually to work (already 2 or 3 times): 1. Switch off Yojimbo-sync at all machines 2. If you have it available: Use Syncrospector to unregister Yojimbo from Sync Services (do that on all machines) - Syncrospector is a free download for all ADC-members (even for the ones with the free membership) 3. Copy the good database to the other machines. 4. Switch on sync on the good machine 5. In the advanced preferences of the .mac-pref-pane reset the data (replace data on .mac) 6. wait some time (BB says 30 minutes) 7. Get your machine on a stable internet connection (no wireless - use an ethernet cable) 8. take your other machines back to sync 9. Open ~/Library/Logs/Sync/dotmacsync.log 10. when you are asked if you wanna replace/merge - say replace and have a look at the changes in the look. When the sync doesn't get through complete, sync again. That usually works but sometime (like in my case the last time it needed 1 day until the changes showed up and since then it works perfect again and changes show up immediately) Niels -- -- This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list yojimbo-talk@barebones.com. To unsubscribe, send mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] List archives: http://www.listsearch.com/yojimbotalk.lasso Have a feature request, or not sure if the software's working correctly? Please send mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
