Hi Jo,
When FolderShare encounters the same file, on separate computers, with
different edits it will automatically make a copy of the edits and
downloaded the latest versions on each computer. This normally occurs if
you edit the file on an online computer A and then make different edits to
the same file on an offline computer B. Instead of removing your changes
the files are renamed.
The best way to prevent this is to make sure you don't have the same file
opened on a different computer and before making any edits to the file
ensure that you have the latest version.
Please let us know if you have any additional questions.
Thanks,
Francisco
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Francisco Garcia-Ascanio
Program Manager
Windows Live FolderShare
"Richi Jennings" <richi.msnews@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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>> I didn't name them differently, the sync process did. I started out with
>> avon.av4db and upon updating and then syncing it from the desktop, the
>> name was changed to avon on desktop.av4db. And if I make the change on
>> the laptop, a file called avon on laptop.av4db is created. I want the
>> filename to remain the same on both computers but that's not what the
>> syncing is doing and thus my problem and confusion.
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> FolderShare does that if a file changes on both computers
> nearly-simultaneously. There's no way it can merge the changes, because it
> can't know about the format of the database, much less the meaning of the
> data.
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> A simple file sync utility like FS is generally not appropriate for
> multi-master sync of databases. Look to the database vendor for tools to
> synchronize separate instances.
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> richi.
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