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Help on Google Drive sync

1. 

   ingber
   Member

   I have a tree of collections with thousands of files in Docs Premier, and I have a mirror which I update on my Win7 Ultimate x64 HP. I tried SyncDocs. It started out OK, populating the tree with new files, but after a short while it fell out of sync. That is, files were being poured into the main Docs folder and not into the trees. Then these flat files were synced onto my PC, etc., etc. It really made a mess of my Docs.

   On another PC with just a couple of flat collections, SyncDocs worked fine.

   There also is a terrible Google Docs bug (confirmed in a recent Case) that it cannot handle large numbers of files. In the main collection, you have to CNTL-RCLK and SHIFT-RCLK over groups of 200-300 files at most to get them into Trash. However, if you let Trash accumulate more than a few hundred/thousand files, you're screwed and you cannot Empty Trash. They keep promising they will fix this.

   Posted 11 years ago #
2. 

   ingber
   Member

   The error log is over 3000 lines, and I cannot add an attachment here.

   Posted 11 years ago #
3. 

   ingber
   Member

   P.S. SyncDocs is too slow on my system with a large number of files. I have an i7-720 chip and an SSD, but it take hours for the google collection and my PC collection to register before syncing. I'll have to wait for the next version to see if this can be remedied.

   Thanks.

   Posted 11 years ago #
4. 

   Andrew
   Syncdocs

   Thanks for your detailed error report. Firstly, sorry for the sync problem and the mess of files you had to clean up.
   We have seen this a 8 months ago related to a bug on Google:
   http://code.google.com/a/google.com/p/apps-api-issues/issues/detail?id=2072
   They claim the bug is fixed, though, and we have not seen it since.

   In order to get to the bottom of this problem you can help us further by:

   Can you please email us the log file at contact-syncdocs at syndocs.com?
   How many files are you syncing?
   Are the duplicated files .pdf files?
   What version of Syncdocs are you running?

   We are currently improving the speed on a large number of files - currently the next release is 4.8x faster than version 0.36 We hope to improve it further before the next release.

   Thanks

   Posted 11 years ago #
5. 

   ingber
   Member

   Hi. I just emailed my error file.

   I have about 1GB+ space of about 15,000 files (not including an enormous Trash).

   It has taken over 12 hours to do the first pass of SyncDocs.

   I regularly run the scripts:

   #!/bin/tcsh -fv
   cd $1
   /cygdrive/c/cygwin/bin/find . -type f -name '*.pdf.pdf' -exec rm {} \;
   /cygdrive/c/cygwin/bin/find . -type f -name '*.doc.pdf' -exec rm {} \;
   /cygdrive/c/cygwin/bin/find . -type f -name '*.docx.pdf' -exec rm {} \;
   /cygdrive/c/cygwin/bin/find . -type f -name '*.pdf.doc' -exec rm {} \;
   /cygdrive/c/cygwin/bin/find . -type f -name '*.rtf.pdf' -exec rm {} \;
   /cygdrive/c/cygwin/bin/find . -type f -name '*.rtf.doc' -exec rm {} \;

   as well as

   #!/bin/tcsh -fv
   cd $1
   /cygdrive/c/cygwin/bin/find . -type f -empty -exec rm {} \;
   /cygdrive/c/cygwin/bin/find . -type l -exec rm {} \;

   I can see that working on the directories/folders on my PC makes more sense than on the Collections/links in GDocs itself. However, I have to keep cleaning up my PC files, and syncing them with save files that keep getting deleted. I can only hope that with the first pass of SyncDocs, I might have just a few iterations left!

   I'm running the most recent version downloaded yesterday, and checked to the same one I could download today -- 3.7...

   Thanks.

   Lester

   Posted 11 years ago #
6. 

   ingber
   Member

   My email of error_logile bounced:

   Delivery to the following recipient failed permanently:

       contact-syncdocs@syndocs.com

   Technical details of permanent failure:
   Google tried to deliver your message, but it was rejected by the recipient domain. We recommend contacting the other email provider for further information about the cause of this error. The error that the other server returned was: 550 550 recipient unrecognized (state 14).

   ----- Original message -----

   Posted 11 years ago #
7. 

   ingber
   Member

   I see the address was probably first mispelled in your posting. I'll try again.

   Posted 11 years ago #
8. 

   Andrew
   Syncdocs

   Thanks for this and the logfile - we'll analyse it and let you know what we find.

   Posted 11 years ago #

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