Re: blogging support

[Robert DeLaurentis]

On Apr 16, 2008, at 7:39 PM, David G. Simmons wrote:

So what I'm hoping for is that ... well, a miracle?


Sounds like Macjournal

http://www.marinersoftware.com/sitepage.php?page=85

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Re: .mac sync

[Robert DeLaurentis]

On Jan 19, 2008, at 10:29 AM, Jeff Schmitz wrote:


When a hard reset doesn't even work, what can I do next?


Write barebones support, they have a procedure that will fix the  
problem.


My experience with Sync and Yojimbo is that it works, and works well,  
most of the time. However, I've had several incidents where the sync  
failed, and left the entire process so corrupted that Apple's reset  
function was unable to reset the mechanism. I've thrown so much time  
down a black hole with this, its sad. The fix that Bare Bones provided  
has worked, but it allows very little leeway - follow it to the letter.


Good luck,
b

P.S. While I was able to use sync successfully for nearly a year, I've  
had enough problems with it that I dare to suggest that its not  
especially robust (on Apple's end, not Bare Bones) for large data  
sets. My library was several hundred megabytes, and while incremental  
changes over time worked flawlessly, a full reset would always time  
out on re-upload. My DSL upload speed isn't especially fast, so that's  
certainly part of it. I've chosen to use Yojimbo sync for smaller  
items, and have moved larger "mobile" data sets to a keychain flash  
drive. Its not as elegant, but then neither is wasting hours trying to  
troubleshoot broken sync sessions.


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Re: newbie question

[Robert DeLaurentis]

On Dec 11, 2007, at 8:46 AM, Andrew Janjigian wrote:


Ah, but the problem (for us) with that is that we want to share
calendars & contacts, so separate accounts are no good.


I have not tried it, but Leopard's address book allows sharing and  
edits by multiple users. Perhaps that would help.


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Re: newbie question

[Robert DeLaurentis]

On Dec 11, 2007, at 8:05 AM, Andrew Janjigian wrote:


However, I would still like it if you could have more than one YJ
library at a time (and sync them all over a single dotmac account) so
that my wife and I could have separate buckets. Given that individulal
dotmac accounts are probably very often used by families of users,
this seems a reasonable idea. I'd even be willing to pay for a second
license to do so.


There is a way to do this, although not exactly how you described:

Create two users on a single Mac.

Sign up for a Family Pack .Mac account, which provides each person  
with sync storage.


As for blessing the concept of two or more users sharing a single user  
account on a single Mac, that seems unlikely to me, given that  
multiple user accounts and fast user switching are available.


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Re: Restricting Spotlight to search only Yojimbo items

[Robert DeLaurentis]

On Dec 5, 2007, at 4:29 PM, Patrick Gilmour wrote:

Now all i need to do is find a quick way to get that into the  
Spotlight search box!!


I created a TextExpander snippet that inserts "kind:yojimbo item" by  
typing "ys "


Works like a charm. Four keystrokes and a search term.

I have dropped QuickSilver for TextExpander and Spotlight in Leopard.  
For my uses, it works great.


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Re: In 50% of startups Yojimbo seems to crash

[Robert DeLaurentis]

On Jun 17, 2007, at 1:52 AM, Niels Kobschätzki wrote:

For a few days now I have the phenomenom that in ca. 50% of the  
startups of Yojimbo, that a few seconds after the start the  
harddisk begins to work a lot and Yojimbo doesn't respond anymore  
(rest of the system works). Force quitting it helps


It helps with responsiveness, but I suspect it will cause other  
problems. Force quitting, while sometimes unavoidable, is a leading  
cause of file corruption.


I see the same issue you do, on a MacBook with about 1K of items in  
the db. The design of Yojimbo has a weakness: on the first launch  
after a sync, Yojimbo will hang up what may seem like a long, long  
time while spinning the beach ball. The rest of the computer is  
likely responsive. This isn't strictly a problem with your computer,  
its a design flaw. I'm sure future versions of Yojimbo and/or the Mac  
OS will address the problem. In the meantime, when launching Yojimbo,  
just let it settle after launch. With a bit of experience, you'll get  
a sense for how long it takes.


Yojimbo is a bit ahead of the curve with .Mac functionality. I really  
appreciate it, but the entire dotMac framework has a real version 1.0  
feel to it. I look forward to the day when it shakes out. In the  
meantime, its a nuisance I can live with. Some perhaps, cannot.  
Whatever your feelings on the subject, liberal use of force-quitting  
is not a good idea.


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Re: Yojimbo and Mathematics

[Robert DeLaurentis]

On May 2, 2007, at 10:04 AM, Lofty Becker wrote:

Is my math bad, is Yojimbo's, or is there something I don't  
understand about the message?


I suspect that the message is originating out of iSync's preference  
settings. Inside the iSync app, which is all but deprecated in Tiger,  
there is a preference for show data change alert if a certain  
percentage of changes are about to occur, one of which is 5%.


Since the alert is tossed up by the OS, not Yojimbo, my guess is that  
the string is there to explain which trigger caused the alert, not a  
measurement of how many changes are about to occur. I have mine set  
to "any," and the alert always says, 0% are about to change, no  
matter if 1 item will change or 50.


Bob

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Re: 10.4.9 has restored Yojimbo's ability to sync for me

[Robert DeLaurentis]

On Mar 16, 2007, at 8:09 AM, John Siracusa wrote:


Today, after upgrading to 10.4.9, Yojimbo sync worked for me


I was in the process of troubleshooting sync with BB support when the  
update was released.


The combination of the advice I got from support and along with the  
10.4.9 update restored synching for me too! With a data file that  
weighs in at about 125MB. Hooray! The sync errors are gone, and the  
data copies over to each Mac reliably.


Bob

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