[chandler-users] partial sync of events problem

[D John Anderson]

On Sep 7, 2007, at 11:43 AM, Philippe Bossut wrote:

> Hi Mitch and Esther,
>
> Mitch Kapor wrote:
>> With the "mitch8" calendar, some new events were created, one by  
>> me, a couple by Esther, each on our respective desktop machines.   
>> When synced, what shows up on the server and on other desktop  
>> machines is not the entire event but a new event at the right time  
>> and of the right length but without the right title.
>>
>> Esther is using an 8.22 checkpoint and I am using RC4.
>
> We changed the way edits are committed to the repository to make  
> them more frequent with bug 9507 and you both should have that fix  
> in your respective versions. Still, you need to note that your  
> edits to a text field (the title for instance) are not committed as  
> long as you leave your cursor in that field. I can imagine that  
> could be long. Of course, if your edits are not committed, when  
> sync happens, the edits are not there either and the event will  
> show up with the default "New Event" title. Since background sync  
> happens only every hour (by default), the weird title can show up  
> for a long time.

Don't we save changes to the text field automatically these days, due  
to the bug that Bryan fixed?

>
> We struggled with other solutions (e.g. commit on a schedule) but  
> there were concerns with perf and even UI behavior so we voted  
> against it.
>
> One thing you can do to avoid this situation is always clicking (or  
> tabbing in the case of the title) outside the edited field to make  
> sure it gets committed next time around. You can also force the  
> commit with "File>>Save Change (command-S)".
>
> Also, in cases like you and Esther, I'm thinking that increasing  
> the rate of syncing (from every hour to say every 15 minutes) would  
> prevent lots of conflicts and delayed updates. You can change the  
> sync schedule through the "File>>Sync>>Set Auto-sync..." dialog.
>
> Cheers,
> - Philippe
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