[Owncloud] sync problem

Klaas Freitag freitag at owncloud.com
Thu Aug 23 18:36:40 UTC 2012


On 23.08.2012 18:19, pub at noend.fr wrote:
Hello Thierry,

>
> thank you for all the developments that you did for this great product.
> I use owncloud since version 3.0 and it makes my life easier.
Thanks that you say that.
>
> I use the client owncloud on 3 different machines
> - 1 macmini: under snowleopard with an ADSL connection without proxy
> - 1 MacBook: under snowleopard with different ADSL connections with and
> without proxy
> - 1 pc in windows XP on corporate network with proxy.
>
> I encounter some problems with synchronization between clients and the
> server it generates an increase sometimes large disk space used.
> Indeed, when a conflict takes place, the file will create a second time
> with a "conflict."
This is probably a problem of the times not being exact synchronised 
between the machines. That will vanish once we use ids to detect the 
need to sync which I am working on currently.

> Is it possible to set a priority?
> if a file is in conflict then the priority sync would
> - Either from the client to the server
> - Either from the server to the client
Well, I  don't think that will satisfy users, because that can mean data 
loss.

regards,
Klaas



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