OK, have tried many combinations and now seem to be able to sync
reliably.
The network and firewall were red- herrings. As you suggested, it
seems the 'Check for changed media files' on the server was the
culprit. It needs to be checked on the client side only; if the box is
checked on on the server side (I think this is the default) it gets
it's knickers in a twist .

I am so missing the sound files, I'd like to revert to the last beta
where this worked (beta 7/8? - I've still got the download). I know
I'll forgo some of the improvements but it's a case of weighing the
benefits for me. Will the prior version still work with the current db
structure?

Kind regards
B.

On Mar 29, 7:46 am, Peter Bienstman <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Wednesday, March 28, 2012 04:16:18 PM silverbear wrote:
>
> > Sorry to take so long to get back to you - busy day!
>
> No problem!
>
> > I tried the sync with the 'check for changed media files' unchecked on
> > both m/c's and it made no difference.
>
> What is then the message on the server when it hangs?
>
> > It occured to me that I get his problem for the first sync after a
> > reboot (I power down every night). I've justed tested this theory by
> > rebooting the m/c's again and lo, and behold, the sync failed again
>
> Strange, typically you'd expect this to be the other way around, with reboots
> fixing things :-)
>
> > and I ended up doing a full sync to get the process working again.
>
> Just to make absolutely sure:
>
> * both client and server are on beta 11b?
> * you never manually copied Mnemosyne files or directories between client and
> server? I.e. delete the *entire* Mnemosyne folder on the client, start
> Mnemosyne, notice that your database is empty, and then sync to the server?
>
> > A network issue?
>
> Perhaps... Unfortunately, the way to debug this is rather complex, with
> running a program called wireshark to capture all the network traffic.
>
> > Client not allowing enough time for Windows to get it's act together?
>
> Could be... Is your server an old machine? When there is not a full sync (full
> sync: messages like 'getting entire binary database) but an incremental sync
> (messages like getting/sending log entries), how long does a sync typically
> take? Few seconds? Half a minute? Minutes? Normally it's a matter of seconds,
> but if for some reason it's slow on your machine, we might need to increase
> the default timeout.
>
> When you get the timeout on the client, after how much time is this?
>
> Cheers,
>
> Peter

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