On Friday 23 Dec 2011 17:57:21 Dougie Nisbet wrote: > On 23/12/2011 16:25, Peter Bienstman wrote: > > Some more things that cross my mind: to setup a sync, at the moment you > > need to start from an *empty* database on the client, and then during > > the first sync, the client will download the full database from the > > server. Is this how you did it? > > For the Windows machine, yes. i.e. Server on Linux, Client on Windows7. > However, that appears to be failing on the long-filename issue.
OK, that's indeed a separate issue. > > Manually copying over a database from the server to the client, and > > subsequently doing a sync will not work because the machine ids will be > > identical. If this is what you did, then at least an issue with the > > current code is that it should detect this scenario as opposed to > > stalling... > Yes, that's what I've done. Well, I've tried both but there's clearly > the risk of detritus lying around from previous attempts. > > I think the next step is for me to set up a test account with a clean > database with just a few test cards that is separate from my current > live and untidy deck. OK, keep me posted, but I'm guessing doing it the 'proper' way will solve the problems. Obviously, in the future Mnemosyne should give a useful error as opposed to hanging, so this is definitely something I need to fix. Cheers, Peter -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "mnemosyne-proj-users" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/mnemosyne-proj-users?hl=en.
