[Owncloud] Hate to say it but . . .

[Karim Geiger]

On 04/26/2013 04:14 AM, Vince D. Kimball wrote:
> I upgraded to client 1.2.5 yesterday and probably two-thirds of my
> synchronized files had conflict files generated for them on my Owncloud
> 5.0.5 server.  I'm the only user on this server and I only change files on
> one client at a time so it seems strange to me that I should ever have a
> conflict file generated at all.  Looking at the conflict files that were
> generated, I can see no pattern to them whatsoever.  Files that have not
> changed in days or weeks have conflict files generated on the server.  It
> would seem to me that there has to be a problem with the sync algorithm.
> 
> It has become clear to me that this issue is too complicated to be
> reproduced in the normal way.  It just doesn't seem realistic for ordinary
> users to have copies of every client and every server from before and
> after every upgrade so that they can re-run each upgrade with logging
> enabled.  Unless the clients and server automatically generate some type
> of log when a conflict file is generated, I doubt this problem will ever
> be truly solved.
> 
> I don't doubt that the Owncloud developers want to resolve this issue, but
> as far as I can see, there is no way to realistically reproduce the issue
> in the way we as users have been asked to do.
> 
> I can still use Owncloud for personal use.  As my primary use of Owncloud
> is the file sync feature, I'll just have to remember to create a new
> folder after every upgrade.

I've experienced the same issue as described above but I don't know
exactly when it happed. I'm also using the desktop-client but for two
PCs: A Mac and a Linux-based system.

The first time I recognized this issue the ownCloud WebApp just updated
itself to 5.0.4 (as far as I know).

Regards

Karim


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Karim Geiger
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