Project Dead?

[Gary]

 Subject says it all, is this project dead?

 It looks nice, but it just crashes for me trying to add network directories (Windows 7 and 8).

[Bannination]

My guess would be yes, last release was in 2010.  At least it's open source. (At least the 2.0 version.)

[Eric]

The project is kind of dead in a way.

The project started off as a school project and one of the criteria was to make it open-source. The basic requirements for the project is just to make a file sync. Although we were asked to make it open source, we didn't really expect people to use it so much. Don't get me wrong =), the program worked well, we did a lot of test to ensure that no file get lost and is totally usable, we just didn't expect people to be using it for network drives.

However, since the project is open source, feel free to add anything or remove anything from it. I have also made a point to separate the different layers from one another, so it should be easy to make a network support for it (I think) without breaking the other functions. If someone is interested to change the code for network support, feel free to contact me and I will add you to the project. Alternatively, you should just clone it to github/bitbucket and link it back here =). Just let me know if do so.

Cheers

(oh and please please, if you want to help, please help get rid of all the .syncless trash that are leaving in people's folder, and do what git does. It was sloppy on our part to do what svn does and till this day I hate myself for suggesting that. We couldn't find a good fix back then.)

[Bannination]

How much time did you guys spend on this project?  It's pretty impressive if that was done over the course of one semester!!!

I cloned the source and have converted it to git, and tweaked it to compile under Visual Studio 2013.  I don't know if I'll actually do anything or not, but it looks like it may be a good opportunity to learn being a newb myself.  The code separation is pretty sweet.

Thanks for updating us on the status!

[Eric]

Thanks for cloning it =). Drop me the link to the git repo if you don't mind. I would have reply earlier but I missed the email. I happen to saw the email when I was cleaning up my inbox a few days ago.

I think we spend about 3 months on it, at the same time dealing with some other modules. To be honest, I think we spent too much time on it than we should, but I am happy that some people find uses for it =).

For the network drive problem, you could take a look at the "tagging layer". Accordingly to what i read, most crashes when they try to add a network drive, and some of the work around involves mapping the drive to a drive id (i.e. D:/). I think the problem is how we handle the path, but I could be wrong =X. 

Cheers !

[Bannination]

Here ya go: https://bitbucket.org/undauntedspirit/syncless-continued

Probably be a while before I can even get some time to get familiar with the code... work/school.... ahhhh..... who knows.

[Bannination]

Can you give me an example of the network path you're trying to add? 

Also, any additional info like exactly where/when it crashes?

I'd like to give it a shot and see if I can't fix this bug, but I need to replicate it on my machine.

On Friday, March 14, 2014 5:46:27 PM UTC-4, Gary wrote: