Glad you were able to figure it out. Re the "small bug" you mention, I've seen something similar, maybe it's the same thing. I noticed that when I run a sync out of that box, the display does not notice that a sync has been done for 5 or 10 seconds. But if you go back and look at it again a half a minute later, the time shown for last sync is correct. Could that be the same as what you saw? I considered it an annoyance (less than a bug) because [1] I never start a sync that way anymore because it's so much easier to just hit f9 or maybe click the sync icon on the MLO toolbar. [2] I can always tell when the last sync completed by hovering the mouse pointer over the sync icon.
Regarding your proposed wording change for the sync overwrite warning, I think your suggestion sounds good. But I'm just another user, While developers do scan this forum from time to time there's no guarantee that they will act on, or even notice your post. You might want to email your comment to supp...@mylifeorganized.net or you might want to post it on mlo.uservoice.com -Dwight From: mylifeorganized@googlegroups.com [mailto:mylifeorganized@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of David Rees Sent: Monday, July 01, 2013 1:41 PM To: mylifeorganized@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: [MLO] Re: overwrite protection - what direction? Hi Dwight, Thank you for the tips. I think what I ran into is when I just installed MLO mobile I didn't create a blank profile before my first sync. So all the tutorial stuff was added to the cloud and it wanted to add it to my PC data file. The problem was I didn't know the direction so it was hard to diagnose. I would suggest the overwrite protection dialog should be updated to to explain what direction the conflict is. It seems like the terms added/deleted are relative to the local file, so adding something as simple as "If you proceed the following changes will be applied to your local file" would work. Also, while I am sharing, there is a small bug in the Synchronization setup dialog box. After running a sync from inside the dialog using "Sync now" the the "Last Synchronized" value isn't updated on the profile making it seem like the the sync didn't happen. Thanks! d On Monday, July 1, 2013 6:55:31 AM UTC-7, Dwight Arthur wrote: Hi, David. I'm not really sure what's happening to you, but I can make some guesses. I could easily be totally wrong but maybe my guesses will help you figure it out. I'm guessing that the cloud file you are syncing with has a lot of stuff in it that's not in your local file. For example, maybe it would have somebody else's tasks, or a copy of your tasks from a long time ago. If that's the case, then the warning you are getting would be telling you that a bidirectional sync will add all those unwanted tasks to your local file. A local-to-remote sync will ensure that all of your tasks are really in the cloud file but it would do nothing to remove the unwanted tasks. If this were happening to me I would go into the cloud sync setup and create a new sync profile. (After, of course, making a backup copy of my local file.) I would explore the available cloud files in my cloud sync ID to see if any of them matched my local file better than the one currently being used. (Mainly you can do this by checking item counts.) I would probably end up ignoring all of the existing cloud files and making a new one, then syncing with it, then going to any other platforms and re-pointing their cloud syncs to the new file (after verifying that none of them have a lot of extraneous tasks). If any of my other platforms had a lot of extraneous tasks, I would look through it to try to remember any changes that did not get synched to your desktop system yet, write them down on a piece of paper, then make a new profile, sync it with the new cloud file and try to manually recreate the changes from your piece of paper. One more thing, if this all works out I would create another new local file at the first system and sync it with the "bad" cloud file in order to find out what tasks are there. If it's an old version of your tasks, I would consider whether some recent change had mistakenly pointed your sync to an old cloud file. If they are someone else's tasks and you don't know how they got there I would alert MLO support. After everything settles down I would delete any cloud files I am not currently using just to be safe. -Dwight From: mylifeo...@googlegroups.com <javascript:> [mailto:mylifeo...@googlegroups.com <javascript:> ] On Behalf Of David Rees Sent: Sunday, June 30, 2013 11:03 PM To: mylifeo...@googlegroups.com <javascript:> Subject: [MLO] Re: overwrite protection - what direction? I tried switching to "local to remote" then doing a sync to get the cloud matched to my local file, but when I switch back to bidirectional I still get the same error... d On Sunday, June 30, 2013 7:28:18 PM UTC-7, David Rees wrote: I just enabled CloudSync to try it out. I am now getting a warning that more than 40% of my tasks will be changed, deleted, or added after the sync. But it doesn't say if those changes are to my local file (which seems wrong since is the only file I use right now) or the cloud? d -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MyLifeOrganized" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to mylifeorganiz...@googlegroups.com <javascript:> . To post to this group, send email to mylifeo...@googlegroups.com <javascript:> . Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/mylifeorganized. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MyLifeOrganized" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to mylifeorganized+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to mylifeorganized@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/mylifeorganized. 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