Since you can't search for "kind=PDF" or "size" I can't tell you how
many entries would be affected, but I assume way too many... [sigh]
However, this brings me to the most important point. Having gone
through this Herculean effort of splitting out large files, syncing,
re-inserting the files, etc., what are you going to do when a change
in sync format forces a full sync again? I'm not bringing this up just
to scare you, but this is exactly how my laptop archive became
orphaned; when Yojimbo had a routine version upgrade about 10 month
ago, it forced a full sync and everything broke.
Now, I don't know if that full sync directly resulted from the update,
or random interference from the Phase of the Moon caused the sync
service to trigger, but the end result is the same. Clearly the sync
service is not set up to handle large chunks of data. (Even the
pre-Leopard Backup program was careful in slicing data into smaller
packets before sending them on to the iDisk.)
Still, I love much of what Yojimbo does for me, but I view it as a
single machine database and would never recommend using it with any
kind of sync across platforms. Some day a competent alternative will
come along and cause me to switch, but until then I'll use it every
day (and secretly hope that Bare Bones will come to their senses and
just fix the damn thing.)
--j
That's hardly useful. How big is the archive? How many PDFs?
Sync over .Mac and MobileMe hasn't worked for me for ages (1200 items,
about 400mb if I recall correctly)
No amount of resetting has helped.
Yojimbo is now a dead product to me.
I'm syncing files using Dropbox, and migrating everything else to
Evernote, which is a shame because I really prefer Yojimbo.
My guess is that there's a large number of Yojimbo customers who would
have moved to Evernote if there was some sort of automated process.
My guess is there's also a large number who have already done it manually.
My guess is that there's a large number who don't need sync or for
whom sync has worked fine who will continue to use Yojimbo and love
it.
I suspect that the blame lies more with .Mac than Yojimbo. I can't
even get my contacts to sync cleanly over .Mac despite a number of
"Replace information on computer from Mobile Me" attempts.
TjL
That's hardly useful. How big is the archive? How many PDFs?
On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 7:44 AM, barstep <bar...@googlemail.com> wrote:
>
> Sync over .Mac now MobileMe works fine for me and has done for years.
Sync over .Mac and MobileMe hasn't worked for me for ages (1200 items,
about 400mb if I recall correctly)
No amount of resetting has helped.
Yojimbo is now a dead product to me.
> I'm syncing files using Dropbox, and migrating everything else to
> Evernote, which is a shame because I really prefer Yojimbo.
Dropbox is really, really, good, to be fair. I've not tried symlinking
my Yojimbo Library folder to it yet, but if that works it would be
terrific. These days I do most of my work with Circus Ponies Notebook,
synced via Dropbox.
> I suspect that the blame lies more with .Mac than Yojimbo. I can't
> even get my contacts to sync cleanly over .Mac despite a number of
> "Replace information on computer from Mobile Me" attempts.
I am also very disappointed with Mobileme's performance. I have moved
my entire task system over to Taskpaper (synced via Dropbox, which is
basically how the iDisk _should_ work) and only use Mobileme for
calendar and address book and Safari bookmarks, all of which I could
do without if it came down to it. I've had Mobileme screwing up my
whole system several times and I just don't have any confidence in it
any more.
For the record I've had great support from BB regarding syncing issues
- they have really paid very keen attention to issues and been swift
in responding - but after a while of all sorts of solutions being
suggested one just has to say "this is too much now". Ironic as I only
ever got .mac to use with Yojimbo in the first place.
This seems like the ticket for me. I've been using YJ for years, and
it gets out of sync at least a half-dozen times a year, requiring a
pain-in-the-ass hard reset each and every time. I did this a few weeks
ago and already I have things not syncing. I'm finally fed up to the
point where I need an alternative. And I don't think the problem is
with dotmac per se, since none of my other dotmac apps ever get out of
sync, only YJ. If anything, dotmac is not robust enough for yj, and BB
needs to come up with some other sync architecture.
Here is my question about your method: I assume you first move one
machine's library to dropbox, and then link the other machines to that
library, since once you move one of them, you'd have duplicates right
and left. So do you just move it once, and then only create the
symlink on every other machine?
Thanks
Andrew