NickA
Member
I have asked this elsewhere but thought it's worth a thread of its own.
For a number of the filetypes / applications I use, when I have the application running and it is accessing the relevant file, Syncdocs detects a change and commences a backup.
This frequently seems to cause a conflict which causes the application to crash.
Is there a way of stopping Syncdocs from syncing a local file while it is open and being accessed by a desktop application?
Phil
Syncdocs
Which application is crashes, is it MYOB?
Syncdocs should leave files alone when they are open, and not lock them. It can't detect files that are open by another user, or with another local security permission. One fix is to use the "Run Syncdocs as Administrator" shortcut.
NickA
Member
Phil - yes, MYOB
I have moved the Syncdocs folder away from the All Users shared directory (I only specified this because MYOB compelled the use of this directory until the recent service pack release). Syncdocs seems to be working better but it is still updating while open.
Apart from the crashing issue, syncing while open is still not ideal as even pushing out the time tolerance to 300 seconds results in a large number of uploads of (potentially) large files during a given day.
I have found extending the time tolerance is extremely dangerous, as saving the file within the time tolerance can result in the Google Docs version not being the most up-to-date version - if this is then synced with a second computer, there is every opportunity for changes in the original file to be missed.
If syncing-while-open can't be stopped, other alternative is to have syncs happening regularly, say every 30 minutes - is this a potential feature?
Phil
Syncdocs
We'll reload MYOB to see what it does, and then put a workaround in the next version of Syncdocs.
To change to sync interval to 30 minutes, you can do the following:
1. exit Syncdocs
2. edit the file c:\Users\user\AppData\Roaming\Syncdocs\user@gmail.com\appsettings.xml
3. Find the value "LocalChangeCheckInterval" and set its value to 1800000. (it is in milliseconds, so 30min = 1800000ms)
4. Set "LocalChecksPerRemoteCheck" to 1 and "LocalChecksPerFullCheck" to 2.
5. save the file
6 restart Syncdocs.
NickA
Member
Phil - many thanks. Extending the sync interval to 30 minutes as you described seems to be working well so far and is a very satisfactory workaround.
In fact, it's probably the ideal solution as it reduces the number of uploads to a manageable level while also keeping a regular version history of the relevant data files.
Phil
Syncdocs
Glad it fixed things.
Note the Google has implemented some version pruning with Google Drive:
"Google Drive on the web keeps the latest and previous versions of a file, automatically deleting previous versions only when they're older than 30 days or there are more than 100 previous versions of the same file. While you can reverse this setting so that some of your versions are never deleted, keep in mind that you may need to purchase additional storage since these versions take up storage space in Google Drive on the web."
see here for more info:
https://support.google.com/drive/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=2375120&p=dialog_autodelete
I'm not sure if it applies to old Google Docs accounts too.
NickA
Member
Thanks Phil, I had seen that, and thought the version pruning (together with the extended sync interval) would solve my problems.
For some reason, however, when I click on 'Manage Revisions' the checkbox for "Do Not Autodelete" is defaulting so that it is ticked for the current and all previous versions. Presumably this seems to mean they'll never be deleted.
I am thus forced to manually un-check all previous revisions one-by-one, which is a major pain in the arse.
I have looked for some kind of global pruning settings to change this default but haven't been able to find anything.
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