I'm afraid that I've had the same problems and have reached the level
of frustration reported by others on the list: Syncing Yojimbo
via .Mac across my three machines (home, office, laptop) simply
doesn't work. As long as I've been a Yojimbo user (from the first
weeks after its initial release), .Mac syncing has been spotty at
best and completely unreliable most of the time.

I've tried several times the resetting scheme suggested by Bare Bones
(killing SyncServer, fiddling with the .Mac Sync settings, forcing a
clean sync from the best database, etc.) and, while it appears to
clear things up for a little while, inevitably (usually within a week
or two) my databases get out of sync again, never to return without
manual intervention. The last time I tried this solution -- a week
ago -- it made no difference whatever: even with hourly syncing on
all machines, they have never caught up with one another. (My
database includes about 1700 items, and only about a dozen .pdf
files, so it's nothing approaching the size of many reported on this
list).

The other apps I manage with .Mac -- iCal, Address Book, Safari --
while they often have minor hiccups with Sync, seem overall to work
well. I understand that what Yojimbo is trying to do via Sync is more
complex and will be more time-consuming, but I have to conclude that
Yojimbo is making demands on .Mac that are inappropriate, that .Mac
is failing in some what to meet its specs, or there is something
about my particular setup at home, office, and on the road (which is
in no way exceptional) that breaks the syncing scheme for Yojimbo
only. But the cause is not the problem; it's the effect: syncing
doesn't work with the present generation of Yojimbo and .Mac.

I'll keep an eye out for new solutions on the list. I may try the
route of a Backup QuickPick for awhile. But I regret to say that one
of my New Year's resolutions is to locate an alternative solution to
my need for a catch-all database for my stuff that probably won't
rely on Yojimbo and .Mac.

TH

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Terry Harpold
Assistant Professor
Department of English
University of Florida

<tharpold@acm.org>
<tharpold@english.ufl.edu>
<http://www.english.ufl.edu/~tharpold>

"Reading in no way obliges you to understand."


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