Groove on new laptop - all workspaces not coming over.

[Wayne Small]

I've just setup groove on a new laptop of mine. I've imported my account
into it and now I've told it to go grab all my workspaces. After 2 weeks
now, it still has some of them as downloading. Also - it's not seeing all
the workspaces I had on the old laptop. What can I do to troubleshoot /
resolve this please?

--
Regards,
Wayne Small [SBS-MVP]
MCT, MCSE+I, MCSE 2000
SBSfaq.com Pty Ltd

Co-author of Advanced Windows Small Business Server 2003 Best Practices
For all the answers on Microsoft's Small Business Server- check out
www.sbsfaq.com

 

[Jan Talens]

Hi Wayne,

- Did you use a recent backup of your Groove account to setup Groove on
the new laptop? (= recommended)

- Is Groove still up and running on your old laptop? This should ease
transfer. If synchronization is blocked (no upload nor download
activity) try to cancel and re-initialize the downloading.

- In case you do not dispose anymore of your old laptop, are your
workspaces shared with other members? Please note that data is not
stored on a central server and that you get workspaces from your own or
workspace members' PCs.
Best performance when both PCs / users remain connected during the
entire transfer process.

- Did you archive your workspaces? (manually or automatically by using a
third party tool...) This is the only option in case you did not share
the workspace and your old laptop has been recycled...

- Size of workspaces? Groove cannot send a workspace that exceeds 2GB.


Hope this helps.

Best regards,

Jan Talens

http://www.hommesetprocess.com/
http://www.grooveit.biz/


Wayne Small a écrit :

 

[Wayne Small]

I still have the old laptop - it's turned off - almost dead. I can try that
today.
Will review the other items you've suggested and let you know.

Many thanks for the detailed response.

--
Regards,
Wayne Small [SBS-MVP]
MCT, MCSE+I, MCSE 2000
SBSfaq.com Pty Ltd

Co-author of Advanced Windows Small Business Server 2003 Best Practices
For all the answers on Microsoft's Small Business Server- check out
www.sbsfaq.com

 

[c1sbc]

Wayne -
There are a few KBs that may provide insights in transferring workspaces
with your Groove accounts -

How to use Groove on multiple computers
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/907326/en-us

Some workspaces are unavailable from other members when you import your
Groove account on another computer
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/915650/en-us

Groove does not synchronize with other computers that run an account after
you restore the account from an account file
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/917206/en-us

You experience presence and delivery services issues when you use a Groove
account on multiple computers
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/922168/en-us

When you use the same account information on two computers that are running
Groove, the computers do not share data
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/907424/en-us

Hope the above helps.
SBC

-------------------

sbc111 atspamnot gmail dotty com

weblog:
http://weblogs.asp.net/sbchatterjee

Pickup Groove Developer workspaces:
http://www.ctdotnet.org (bottom of page)

I still have the old laptop - it's turned off - almost dead. I can try that
today.
Will review the other items you've suggested and let you know.

Many thanks for the detailed response.

--
Regards,
Wayne Small [SBS-MVP]
MCT, MCSE+I, MCSE 2000
SBSfaq.com Pty Ltd

Co-author of Advanced Windows Small Business Server 2003 Best Practices
For all the answers on Microsoft's Small Business Server- check out
www.sbsfaq.com

Hi Wayne,

- Did you use a recent backup of your Groove account to setup Groove on
the new laptop? (= recommended)

- Is Groove still up and running on your old laptop? This should ease
transfer. If synchronization is blocked (no upload nor download
activity) try to cancel and re-initialize the downloading.

- In case you do not dispose anymore of your old laptop, are your
workspaces shared with other members? Please note that data is not stored
on a central server and that you get workspaces from your own or workspace
members' PCs.
Best performance when both PCs / users remain connected during the entire
transfer process.

- Did you archive your workspaces? (manually or automatically by using a
third party tool...) This is the only option in case you did not share the
workspace and your old laptop has been recycled...

- Size of workspaces? Groove cannot send a workspace that exceeds 2GB.


Hope this helps.

Best regards,

Jan Talens

http://www.hommesetprocess.com/
http://www.grooveit.biz/


Wayne Small a crit :

 

[Gregg Johnston [MSFT]]

Wayne,

In order to fetch spaces, you will need to have the computer on, running
Groove, and connected to the network in order to grab copies of sapces off
that computer. Also, if you are not seeing spaces in your account that you
know you should be seeing, then that means that the backup file from your
account was made prior to your having those spaces. So 2 important things:

1. Have the original computer runnning when fetching spaces
2. Use the most recent account file possible

Gregg
--
This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.

I still have the old laptop - it's turned off - almost dead. I can try that
today.
Will review the other items you've suggested and let you know.

Many thanks for the detailed response.

--
Regards,
Wayne Small [SBS-MVP]
MCT, MCSE+I, MCSE 2000
SBSfaq.com Pty Ltd

Co-author of Advanced Windows Small Business Server 2003 Best Practices
For all the answers on Microsoft's Small Business Server- check out
www.sbsfaq.com

Hi Wayne,

- Did you use a recent backup of your Groove account to setup Groove on
the new laptop? (= recommended)

- Is Groove still up and running on your old laptop? This should ease
transfer. If synchronization is blocked (no upload nor download
activity) try to cancel and re-initialize the downloading.

- In case you do not dispose anymore of your old laptop, are your
workspaces shared with other members? Please note that data is not stored
on a central server and that you get workspaces from your own or workspace
members' PCs.
Best performance when both PCs / users remain connected during the entire
transfer process.

- Did you archive your workspaces? (manually or automatically by using a
third party tool...) This is the only option in case you did not share the
workspace and your old laptop has been recycled...

- Size of workspaces? Groove cannot send a workspace that exceeds 2GB.


Hope this helps.

Best regards,

Jan Talens

http://www.hommesetprocess.com/
http://www.grooveit.biz/


Wayne Small a crit :

 

[Wayne Small]

Thanks Greg - that was the issue - I had saved it some time back.

Problems sorted now.

--
Regards,
Wayne Small [SBS-MVP]
MCT, MCSE+I, MCSE 2000
SBSfaq.com Pty Ltd

Co-author of Advanced Windows Small Business Server 2003 Best Practices
For all the answers on Microsoft's Small Business Server- check out
www.sbsfaq.com

Wayne,

In order to fetch spaces, you will need to have the computer on, running
Groove, and connected to the network in order to grab copies of sapces off
that computer. Also, if you are not seeing spaces in your account that
you
know you should be seeing, then that means that the backup file from your
account was made prior to your having those spaces. So 2 important
things:

1. Have the original computer runnning when fetching spaces
2. Use the most recent account file possible

Gregg
--
This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no
rights.

I still have the old laptop - it's turned off - almost dead. I can try
that
today.
Will review the other items you've suggested and let you know.

Many thanks for the detailed response.

--
Regards,
Wayne Small [SBS-MVP]
MCT, MCSE+I, MCSE 2000
SBSfaq.com Pty Ltd

Co-author of Advanced Windows Small Business Server 2003 Best Practices
For all the answers on Microsoft's Small Business Server- check out
www.sbsfaq.com

Hi Wayne,

- Did you use a recent backup of your Groove account to setup Groove on
the new laptop? (= recommended)

- Is Groove still up and running on your old laptop? This should ease
transfer. If synchronization is blocked (no upload nor download
activity) try to cancel and re-initialize the downloading.

- In case you do not dispose anymore of your old laptop, are your
workspaces shared with other members? Please note that data is not
stored
on a central server and that you get workspaces from your own or
workspace
members' PCs.
Best performance when both PCs / users remain connected during the
entire
transfer process.

- Did you archive your workspaces? (manually or automatically by using
a
third party tool...) This is the only option in case you did not share
the
workspace and your old laptop has been recycled...

- Size of workspaces? Groove cannot send a workspace that exceeds
2GB.


Hope this helps.

Best regards,

Jan Talens

http://www.hommesetprocess.com/
http://www.grooveit.biz/


Wayne Small a crit :
I've just setup groove on a new laptop of mine. I've imported my
account
into it and now I've told it to go grab all my workspaces. After 2
weeks
now, it still has some of them as downloading. Also - it's not seeing
all the workspaces I had on the old laptop. What can I do to
troubleshoot / resolve this please?

 

[Wayne Small]

Thanks for this - Gregs comments along with KB below helped to fix all my
problems.

Groove does not synchronize with other computers that run an account after
you restore the account from an account file
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/917206/en-us

--
Regards,
Wayne Small [SBS-MVP]
MCT, MCSE+I, MCSE 2000
SBSfaq.com Pty Ltd

Co-author of Advanced Windows Small Business Server 2003 Best Practices
For all the answers on Microsoft's Small Business Server- check out
www.sbsfaq.com

Wayne -
There are a few KBs that may provide insights in transferring workspaces
with your Groove accounts -

How to use Groove on multiple computers
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/907326/en-us

Some workspaces are unavailable from other members when you import your
Groove account on another computer
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/915650/en-us

Groove does not synchronize with other computers that run an account after
you restore the account from an account file
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/917206/en-us

You experience presence and delivery services issues when you use a Groove
account on multiple computers
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/922168/en-us

When you use the same account information on two computers that are
running
Groove, the computers do not share data
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/907424/en-us

Hope the above helps.
SBC

-------------------

sbc111 atspamnot gmail dotty com

weblog:
http://weblogs.asp.net/sbchatterjee

Pickup Groove Developer workspaces:
http://www.ctdotnet.org (bottom of page)

I still have the old laptop - it's turned off - almost dead. I can try
that
today.
Will review the other items you've suggested and let you know.

Many thanks for the detailed response.

--
Regards,
Wayne Small [SBS-MVP]
MCT, MCSE+I, MCSE 2000
SBSfaq.com Pty Ltd

Co-author of Advanced Windows Small Business Server 2003 Best Practices
For all the answers on Microsoft's Small Business Server- check out
www.sbsfaq.com

Hi Wayne,

- Did you use a recent backup of your Groove account to setup Groove on
the new laptop? (= recommended)

- Is Groove still up and running on your old laptop? This should ease
transfer. If synchronization is blocked (no upload nor download
activity) try to cancel and re-initialize the downloading.

- In case you do not dispose anymore of your old laptop, are your
workspaces shared with other members? Please note that data is not
stored
on a central server and that you get workspaces from your own or
workspace
members' PCs.
Best performance when both PCs / users remain connected during the
entire
transfer process.

- Did you archive your workspaces? (manually or automatically by using
a
third party tool...) This is the only option in case you did not share
the
workspace and your old laptop has been recycled...

- Size of workspaces? Groove cannot send a workspace that exceeds
2GB.


Hope this helps.

Best regards,

Jan Talens

http://www.hommesetprocess.com/
http://www.grooveit.biz/


Wayne Small a crit :
I've just setup groove on a new laptop of mine. I've imported my
account
into it and now I've told it to go grab all my workspaces. After 2
weeks
now, it still has some of them as downloading. Also - it's not seeing
all the workspaces I had on the old laptop. What can I do to
troubleshoot / resolve this please?

 

[Wayne Small]

Just a followup on this - I thought given that I didn't seem to be able to
find the answers myself, that I'd blog about it here. Hope it helps someone
else next time around
http://blog.sbsfaq.com/Lists/Posts/Post.aspx?ID=56


Again thanks for the help guys - I was about to dump groove simply because I
could not get this sync to work - you've helped me save that!

--
Regards,
Wayne Small [SBS-MVP]
MCT, MCSE+I, MCSE 2000
SBSfaq.com Pty Ltd

Co-author of Advanced Windows Small Business Server 2003 Best Practices
For all the answers on Microsoft's Small Business Server- check out
www.sbsfaq.com

Thanks for this - Gregs comments along with KB below helped to fix all my
problems.

Groove does not synchronize with other computers that run an account
after
you restore the account from an account file
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/917206/en-us

--
Regards,
Wayne Small [SBS-MVP]
MCT, MCSE+I, MCSE 2000
SBSfaq.com Pty Ltd

Co-author of Advanced Windows Small Business Server 2003 Best Practices
For all the answers on Microsoft's Small Business Server- check out
www.sbsfaq.com

Wayne -
There are a few KBs that may provide insights in transferring workspaces
with your Groove accounts -

How to use Groove on multiple computers
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/907326/en-us

Some workspaces are unavailable from other members when you import your
Groove account on another computer
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/915650/en-us

Groove does not synchronize with other computers that run an account
after
you restore the account from an account file
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/917206/en-us

You experience presence and delivery services issues when you use a
Groove
account on multiple computers
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/922168/en-us

When you use the same account information on two computers that are
running
Groove, the computers do not share data
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/907424/en-us

Hope the above helps.
SBC

-------------------

sbc111 atspamnot gmail dotty com

weblog:
http://weblogs.asp.net/sbchatterjee

Pickup Groove Developer workspaces:
http://www.ctdotnet.org (bottom of page)

I still have the old laptop - it's turned off - almost dead. I can try
that
today.
Will review the other items you've suggested and let you know.

Many thanks for the detailed response.

--
Regards,
Wayne Small [SBS-MVP]
MCT, MCSE+I, MCSE 2000
SBSfaq.com Pty Ltd

Co-author of Advanced Windows Small Business Server 2003 Best Practices
For all the answers on Microsoft's Small Business Server- check out
www.sbsfaq.com

Hi Wayne,

- Did you use a recent backup of your Groove account to setup Groove
on
the new laptop? (= recommended)

- Is Groove still up and running on your old laptop? This should ease
transfer. If synchronization is blocked (no upload nor download
activity) try to cancel and re-initialize the downloading.

- In case you do not dispose anymore of your old laptop, are your
workspaces shared with other members? Please note that data is not
stored
on a central server and that you get workspaces from your own or
workspace
members' PCs.
Best performance when both PCs / users remain connected during the
entire
transfer process.

- Did you archive your workspaces? (manually or automatically by using
a
third party tool...) This is the only option in case you did not share
the
workspace and your old laptop has been recycled...

- Size of workspaces? Groove cannot send a workspace that exceeds
2GB.


Hope this helps.

Best regards,

Jan Talens

http://www.hommesetprocess.com/
http://www.grooveit.biz/


Wayne Small a crit :
I've just setup groove on a new laptop of mine. I've imported my
account
into it and now I've told it to go grab all my workspaces. After 2
weeks
now, it still has some of them as downloading. Also - it's not
seeing
all the workspaces I had on the old laptop. What can I do to
troubleshoot / resolve this please?

 

[chautauquaco]

groove on new computer - all workspaces not coming over
I months ago got my wife a netbook and made it as my other computer only got
one workspace to download. Using it for librarty seacrch on genealogy. My
other computer is drying as part of it works and parts do not work. so wife
got this senior citizen a new computer and I install windows ultimate it has
windows 7 os. said on groove this would be my other computer. and this new
computer will not download any workspaces. my old computer I use a modem to
use it. The netbook is wireless.
If wanting to use new computer I have to disconnect the old computer from
modem and reestablished network connection to use it. Tried to download one
workspace which is on netbook which uses wireless internet connection. And i
have netbook on using wireless in the workspave and new computer using modem
and it says get workspace and I tried and workspace does not download.

Roger Stone