trouble sharing synced folders

[chiron]

I am a beginner with groove. I have it installed on 2 of my computers, but
the synced folder is not getting passed in any way to the 2nd computer. Nor
do invitations to join get passed in any way that I can see. I have saved the
account file on the desktop of the second computer. Ay help would be much
appreciated.

Peter

 

[Mark Smith]

Hi Chiron -

From your description, I'm not sure if you need to manually install the
particular shared space or not. Does the shared folders' name appear in the
list of spaces on the second computer? If so, is it greyed out? If so can you
right-click it and choose download?

 

[chiron]

No. it was not appearing the 2nd launchbar. but i did finally fix the problem
by deleting my account on both computers and then re-opening new accounts. i
must have done something to make the accounts become different. I do find
some of groove confusing, e.g. the difference beween a workspace and a folder
that has been right-clicked and synchronized.

thanks for you involvement.

Peter

 

[Ashok Hingorani]

Peter this may help

groove from the start has had a built in files sync tool that lives in a
workspace

when you ask for a folder to be synced groove creates files tool in a
(hidden) workspace, to which you then invite members. yhis workspace shows up
in your launchbar as a workspace (with a diff icon) and when you 'open' it
groove navigates to the necessary local folder. works fine

my thought is that you may have created both accounts from the same file -
ie. acnt on multiple computers - in that case you need to "download" the
space once to your second machine - select workspace in launchbar / options
get space from my other computer ..... then the two spaces will sync

if they are seperate acnts, then the invite process transfers the workspace
to the other machine and creates a local folder on that machine where the
files will be visible. files will sync after the space invite has been
accepted and a local receiving folder set.

welcome to Groove by the way - it is not a diff tool to work with once a few
basics are clear

rgds

ashok

 

[chiron]

thank you for your response. I can't try your fix since I already did fix the
problem by deleting my accounts on both computers and then recreating them.
After that everything worked fine. But until then it was if the two groove
accounts were unrelated--even an invitation from one did not seem to get to
the other.

my main use for groove is not so much collaboration with others as
synchronizing my own manuscripts on three different computers. I a writing a
psychology book, and keeping straight the separate versions of different
chapters on different computers was driving me nuts. groove seems to be doing
a fine job of keeping it all up to date.

what happens if i make changes to a manuscript in the same workspace on two
different computers before either computer has had a chance to sync with the
other? are all changes brought to both computers? suppose i make changes on
one computer and I then change those changes on the second computer. when
groove finally gets a chance to sync up, what changes are made to both files?
is this too complicated to explain?

I am feeling a bit obsessive about losing work somewhere in the process of
moving from one computer to another.

thanks.

Peter

 

[Ashok Hingorani]

Good to hear all well Peter
yes groove is a super way of keeping yourself synced across locations
and you should not really worry about losing data

re the update on multiple machines - if groove senses you online and no one
else (who may be online too) has a copy open then it will update the
original. if anyone is offline while updating, groove will simply create a
'copy of' the document and leave it to the user to decide how to update the
versions internally. if any two machines have the same doc open then groove
will create a 'copy of' automatically.

but you will never lose data - take that from someone who has spent a lot of
time trying to make groove do just that

rgds

ashok