[Owncloud] Fwd: How I just lost 2/3 of my files to the sync-client

[Benjamin Schieder]

WOOHOOO! Awesome news :-)

Thanks for looking into this! As a developer myself, I know that my 
bug-report was less-than-ideal. All the more awesome that you found and 
fixed it, anyway!


Kind regards,
Benjamin

Am 2014-02-06 19:05, schrieb Klaas Freitag:
> On 06.02.2014 10:23, Klaas Freitag wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> good news here.
> 
> As we are sitting together for a hackathon on the client this week, we
> were able to have a deeper look into this problem and our friend
> Olivier was actually able to nail the problem down and fix it.
> 
> It indeed was a problem with the renaming mechanism, and both the
> problem and the solution are hard to understand ;-)
> 
> But: The fix will arrive with the next client release (RC2 or final).
> 
> Thanks Olivier for fixing and thanks for the report!
> 
> regards,
> 
> Klaas
> 
>> On 05.02.2014 15:38, Benjamin Schieder wrote:
>>> Am 2014-02-05 15:10, schrieb Klaas Freitag:
>>>> On 05.02.2014 14:20, Benjamin Schieder wrote:
>>>>> After a reinstallation of my laptop and re-configuration of the 
>>>>> sync
>>>>> client, the client now synced the / directory of my server instead 
>>>>> of
>>>>> the /clientsync directory.
>>>> Did you have a previously configured client? Have you been asked if
>>>> you want to start over with a clean sync or keep the local files?
>>> 
>>> I had a previously configured client. For reasons I can't quite
>>> reconstruct now, I removed the existing sync entry from the client 
>>> and
>>> added a new one. The new one didn't ask for a path and took the 
>>> entire /
>>> from the server.
>>> Note that this sync worked like a charm!
>>> After this initial sync I had the entire / from the server on my 
>>> client
>>> and everything where it bel
>> Ok, but this means that we do not deal with an update problem from one
>> client version to another, because it was a completely new set up 
>> client.
>> 
>>>>> Well, that was fine with me, so I decided to move the directories 
>>>>> from
>>>>> /clientsync/* to / .
>>>> Where? On the server or on the client?
>>> 
>>> On the client.
>> Ok, so the client propagated the move to the server which we see in 
>> the
>>   log snippet as well.
>> 
>>>>> At some point, the sync client encountered a 500 Internal server 
>>>>> error
>>>>> and stopped working.
>>>> Why did that happen? Did you find something in the apache error log?
> 
> 
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