World: r3wp

not a solution to the problem, but save everyone else the side effects.

Allen....you smart!  We did something like this in Qtask just recently. 
 (not ".", but dups).

on the 'dot bug': It seems to me there must be set some short timeout 
during the data transfer. I remember I had this problem when on analog 
modem few years ago too. I guess it looks like Altme is missing handling 
of the situation when timeout on port occure (or something like that) 
and the logic reamin in state the sync was completed succefully. 
Just wild quess.

(ie. the timeout is not long enough for slower connections)

Sometimes I also see the "logon" status on some people who are actually 
chat with me.

ok... it looks like file sharing has not been enabled here for fear 
of it becoming too big (i.e. imagine a new user syncing, there are 
already various MB to download, if you had file sharing it could 
really become too big)

what do you all think? should we enable it, and maybe delete files 
regularly? do you have any idea?

Can you not save files to the file share without forcing a sync?

big

 files are not synced by default. however, think about a thousand 
 small files (i.e. rebol scripts)

I'm thinking of just making it manual.

You don;t get any files until you ask for them.

Better.

Yes, sounds good.

Reichart, are you considering a one type synch of that file or an 
option to allow auto-resynch's if the file changes?

with an ability for the user to list what files are auto-synched 
and the date the file was last updated so they can turn it off if 
they choose.

Over time, things will get more specific.  But we want to keep things 
as simple as poosible.

I got this when simply sending a message:

Server reported error in chat because of: User does not exist

Had to re-enter the user's message group to cure it

What version are you using? and platform.

1.1.28 Windows 2000

Anyone else here ever see that error?

That looks to me like your OS was locking a dir or file and so we 
could not get to it.

But it says the server says so. That's running on Windows 98, by 
the way :-/

Some unpractical behavior in adding a file. For starters, the file 
selector (in Linux) opens one directory above the directory you're 
in

The file selector is horrid, but in particular, I typed the name 
of a new file, which happened to have spaces in it, but instead got 
a number of files, for each part of the name. This is very unexpected

Hmmm....

There does seem to be a problem with syncing when you install Altme.


Today I had was enjoying one of my too regular Windows installations 
on my desktop. I installed altme beta. It synced only 8 chats. A 
dot to myself forced a sync of all personal converstations.  A dot 
to Dot forced a sync of Dot.


So I removed the beta and installed AltME 1.0.1. It synced 10 chats. 
 A dot to myself forced a sync of all personal converstations.  A 
dot to Dot forced a sync of DevCon2005 because I posted in the wrong 
place.

I can't remember this happening before Rebol3 was upgraded but I 
could have a bad memory.

I've reinstalled both Windows and Linux on my machine. I'm only able 
to run Altme 1.0.1 on Win (don't ask me why new beta crashes all 
the time on clean installation while it was working without problem 
on old one) and it synced no rooms. On Linux I have no problem with 
latest beta and syncing works without problem. So I spent some nice 
minutes clicking on red rooms (but it's better to have something 
to click on than otherwise :)

Wow.........it crashes!?!  


OK guys, you need to shove all this into the Feedback, becuase all 
I do is copy and paste this stuff over to the site myself, since 
it is built to track all of this.

Reichart: I'm pretty sure that this crash is in no way related to 
AltMe or REBOL. Something mysterious happened to my computer and 
lot of things that were working are not now. I don't know the reason, 
but I'm sure it must be some HW fault.

Cool.

After first reinstall I was not even able to run REBOL. I clicked 
on icon and nothing happened. So I reinstalled second time and now 
it's working (brr, not-working REBOL, that were really bad 5 minutes 
:).

Rebolek, did you do any hardware changes to your machine recently 
?

If not, maybe it's time to open the case and see if everything is 
plugged in properly. Check RAM, PCI cards etc. are seated properly

Anton: Actually the only change I made was, that I moved my computer 
by a meter or so. I've checked RAM with memtest and both GFX and 
soundcard looks OK.

Sometimes just reseating the cards and/or RAM modules can fix them. 
Heating and cooling of the components can raise them out of the their 
sockets over time.

also cleaning the contacts helps (a rubber eraser is good for this)

A small hand-held vaccuum cleaner can help get rid of dust, which 
might be slightly conductive.. :) I don't actually have one myself, 
I just use  a full-size vaccuum cleaner carefully :)

:-) I think, Rebolek's computer case is always open:-)

I got an "Invalid username or password" again, this time during starting 
AltME and auto-login. It was accompanied by an error abort, which 
I sent in to feedback

This time I had upgraded the server from 1.1.24, I think, to 1.1.28

problem: after I've posted my message, content is not refresh, I 
can't see answers, but then i post next  message i see that  there 
are some messages - answers for me

julia, it's an old syncing problem that is well known

but apparently very hard to fix

and what i have to do?

there is not much to do, but sometimes posting something in the dot 
group helps syncing. sometimes logging out and in again helps, but 
not always

thanks

Julia, are you on dial-up?

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