Bookmark synchronization

[Mike Kelleher]

--On Monday, January 9, 2006 3:45 PM -0500 Andrew Malton 
<ajmalton at uwaterloo.ca> wrote:
> My bookmarks routinely get messed up: usually it loses things I put there.
>
> It looks as if the synch algorithm, when it wants to know whether to
> update from the repo or update to it, merely guesses.
>
> Is there a well-defined algorithm being used?
>
> Anyone else have this problem?

Yes. I posted about WebDAV sync issues a couple months ago, but no one 
replied.

Things seem to work well if I am absolutely strict about quitting OW on one 
machine before launching it on another. But, sometimes I forget, and 
some/most/all of the time that happens, one of my machines will get out of 
sync with the others and I have to go to the preferences, clear the server 
line, click out, click back in, and re-enter the WebDAV URL. At that point 
I have to choose whether to replace the server bookmarks with the local 
bookmarks or vice versa.

I'm guessing that perhaps WebDAV file locking issues are coming into play, 
but it's impossible to tell from the documentation. I would love for 
bookmark synching to happen correctly/reliably even if I do launch more 
than one instance of OmniWeb but if it is WebDAV locks getting in the way 
there may be nothing OG can do about it. Though I imagine that at any rate 
there could be something done to address the issue of OW "giving up" on the 
server bookmarks once this does happen, so that I can get back into a 
synched state by quitting all copies of OW and launching/quitting one at a 
time.

Cheers,
Mike

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