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Syncronization do not work any more?, update to versin 4.2.x and sync is different/ not workin
 
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I just bought the update to 4.2 and try to do the sync funcion that I always used in the previous versions.
Now the window is different. and it won't sync.
THe window ask for the folder for sync, and even the help shows the old configuration, when you have to choose option 1 2 or 3, this one does not show it.
When click OK, it goes to a screen that says:
"Waiting for synchronisation signal. Please selec tthe same data exchange folder in the remote machine and start synconisation there..."
almost looks like I have to have both machines linked...
what happens?
how can I sync my files?
Thank you
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Guys,
I'm the only one who uses this feature or I'm the only one with this problem?
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I don't use multiple instances of TB, so synchronization isn't there for me. But I've understood that the help still describes the old system.
AFAIK The current process needs to be initiated simultaneously between two instances of TB that both have access to a common synchronization diretory.
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Now I'm more confused.
on the old (read nice working) version I connect a USB drive on my home computer, run the option 1,
go to my notebook, insert the same USB drive, run the option 2,
back to my home computer, with the same USB drive and run the option 3 and it was sync.

now, do I have to share a network connection between my lap top and my computer? that is the idea?

because if I simple point to the USB drive and click OK, the sync options keeps:
"Wainting for synchronisation signal. Please select the same data exchange folder on the remote machine and start syncronisation there..."

is there any other way that I don't have to have both machines in the same network?
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I'm having the exact same problem, the help section is so outdated even the steps described are completely different in v4. btw, it used to work fine in v3.

have you found a solution yet?
Edited: jiangster - 18 January 2010 06:01:17
 
 
 
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I have just downloaded The Bat! for evaluation, and I sm having the same problem.  

The help section for synchronisation of two computers does not make any sense at all - there is no 'Step 1' and 'Step 2', and I can't make the syncronisation work whatever I do.

Can someone who knows please sort this thing out before my trial period runs out.

Backing up one computer on another is precisely the reason I want to move away from Windows Live Mail that constantly changes the file date on .eml files, which makes syncronisation impossible.
 
 
 
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OK - I worked out how to do it.  But there are many serious problems with the system.

1.  I have to run from room to room pressing keys.  The process should be able to run provided only that the remote computer is booted and I am logged in to it.

2.  Recent emails are sometimes copied twice, or multiple times.

3.  Now the realy serious problem.  When I delete an email, or an email folder, on one computer, it is not copied back when I synchronise.  Now I do understand that most times I will want that deletion to stand.  But sometimes I may have deleted the email by mistake and want it back.  Other times, however, I want the deletion to be transferred to the other computer.  I therefore need three options on *each* such email before the sync process kicks off:
(1.) Copy the email back to the first computer.
(2.) Delete the file on the other computer as well.
(3.) Leave the situation as is.
Programmes like GoodSync have been doing this sort of thing for years - it's hardly rocket science.

Worse still, when I move an email from the Inbox to a subfolder and then sync, the email duly appears in the second computer's subfolder, but it is still in the second computer's Inbox as well! This is quite hopeless, because after a year of organising emails, including deleting many and moving the rest, plus reorganising the subfolders, the second computer will have a vast number of duplicate files.  

Again, the sync routine must give options when files are moved.  Otherwise, the only option would be to delete the whole account on the second computer every so often and start again - most inelegant.

I could use an alternative approach and simply back up all the files in the 'The Bat!' directory of the active computer onto the other computer.  The problem is that I then cannot view them on the other computer, even with The Bat! installed, because they have not been through all the proper registration processes.  Hence this is not a particularly attractive option.  Or perhaps there is a way to view them, but I haven't worked it out.

I quite admit that I may have misunderstood how things work in The Bat!  If so, could someone enlighten me.
 
 
 
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CayleyRM writes:
I could use an alternative approach and simply back up all the files in the 'The Bat!' directory of the active computer onto the other computer. The problem is that I then cannot view them on the other computer, even with The Bat! installed, because they have not been through all the proper registration processes.

You shouldn't move 'The Bat!' directory (I guess that means installation directory) fr om one PC to the other, but the mail directory. Depending on your setup, the mail folder may be a subfolder of the installation folder, or to be somewhere else. To see wh ere it is for each installation, see
Options / Preferences / System / Mail Directory
Then copy everything from that folder on PC1 to the mail directory of PC2, and it'll become an exact copy of PC1.

Using some sync tool you may speed up the process as it'll skip files for which the source and target are identical.
 
 
 
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As bigg_one states, just copy all the message folders from one computer to the other.  Much faster than the synchronization process anyway.

I was able to get the sync process to work, but I don't like the new version - much prefer the older version.  So, I've stopped using the sync function and just use a full copy procedure.  Just have to make the mail folders shared on your network.

I have to go 'out of town' about every other week.  When I'm at home, the tower machine is used for EMail; when I'm out of town, I use the laptop.  Just before I leave, I copy the message folders from the tower to the laptop - laptop settings are such that it leaves messages on the server for 10 days (3 days on the tower).  When I return home, I let the tower update from the server, then just copy the 'Sent Mail' folder from the laptop to the tower.

G'Jim c):{-
 
 
 
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