Re: Home < - > Office Sync

[Matt Davey <mcdavey mrao cam ac uk>]

Sorry for top posting.

Rusty gives a good run through of some examples of syncing to two
computers.  The main effect is that if you have made changes to a record
on the palm and on the sync target, the changed records should be
duplicated.  If you are syncing to two different machines and make
changes on the desktops as well as your Zire, this duplication could
happen quite frequently.

Matt

On Wed, 2007-11-07 at 14:57 -0700, Rusty Carruth wrote:
> Well, I don't think I've missed any replies, so here goes mine.
> 
> Sorry if I *did* miss a reply and this is a waste of everyone's
> time!
> 
> Daniel Rindt  wrote:
> > Hello List,
> > iam using Zire31 with gpilot :). My Question is, can i sync on 2 Places
> > without Problems? I want sync in Office to Zire and at Home and back.
> > Is that possible without Problems?
> >
> I think you mean - can you sync at home to one computer, and then sync 
> at work
> with a different computer, and will you have problems.
> 
> Lets consider the situation.
> 
> Say that the Zire has items a, b, and c.  When you start, Home has none 
> of the file,s
> and neither does work.  You sync at home, now :
> 
> Zire     a, b, c
> Home: a, b, c
> Work: <empty>
> 
> Now, you go to work and sync, so work has a, b,c
> 
> Now, you change 'a' on the Zire, and sync at work:
> 
> Zire:    a1, b, c
> Home: a,  b, c
> Work, a1, b, c
> 
> Now, you go home and change 'b', then sync:
> 
> Zire:    a1, b1, c
> Home: a1, b1, c
> Work: a1, b,   c
> 
> Go back to work, change c, sync:
> 
> Zire:     a1, b1, c1
> Home:  a1, b1, c
> Work:  a1, b1, c1
> 
> Note that, as long as you do not change the files on home or work, you 
> are pretty safe
> here.  So, what happens if you start changing the files on the 'backup' 
> machines (the
> non-zires)?
> 
> Starting from the above, lets go home and change c there (creating c'), 
> then sync.
> 
> OOPS!  We just wrote c', which loses the changes we made to get c1!
> 
> Probably not what you wanted :-)
> 
> Hope this helps, and isn't TOO far off the mark!