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[GWSwordUser]

I have my locations for the resources and user files pointed to my OneDrive folder. This is supposed to allow me to view notes I made on my laptop to appear on my desktop since both devices use the same resource folders. However, I have found that this does not work perfectly all the time. Many times I have to restart e-Sword or reset the resource folders repeatedly on each device for the notes I made on one to appear on the other. Does anyone have any suggestions for this minor irritation?

 

GW

[BH.]

One thing to consider is when using cloud storage, such as OneDrive, Dropbox,  pCloud or other - one must allow time for the service to sync your files by downloading any changed or newer files first when you logon to a new device, before then using them. And if you are using a file in a shared folder on both machines at the same time, you may develop conflicts with the file.

[GWSwordUser]

Thanks for your reply BH. There is usually more than a half hour between when I enter the notes on my laptop while at church. Then once home, I post the notes to the church website from my desktop. I am not accessing the shared folder at the same time.

[BH.]

Thanks for your reply BH. There is usually more than a half hour between when I enter the notes on my laptop while at church. Then once home, I post the notes to the church website from my desktop. I am not accessing the shared folder at the same time.

My point is not about access a shared folder at the same time, though that can be an issue if a file is open on one computer and then you try to access it on the other.  What I was pointing out is that when you start a another computer up, it has to sync all the files first before you try to access them in order to see all the changes.  Again, that may not be your problem.  I'll say the sync issue another way: you edit a file, this being e-Sword, a topic file, you save it into your cloud drive and close e-Sword.  Hours later you start another computer, and immediately start e-Sword and try to access a changed file.  If the cloud service has not yet synced the files, you will not see that proper changes.  Things that can affect syncing time are the speed of your internet connection, the number of files in the folder that needs to be indexed and checked, and the size and number of files that need to be synced.  Dropbox syncs the smallest files to the largest.  I don't know what OneDrive does.  If there are a lot of large files such as pictures which are shared, this may interfere with sync speed. 

I have used shared files with e-Sword for quite a while without an issue using Dropbox.  I make sure that Dropbox has finish syncing files before using any program which depends one a shared folder. 

[APsit190]

My point is not about access a shared folder at the same time, though that can be an issue if a file is open on one computer and then you try to access it on the other.  What I was pointing out is that when you start a another computer up, it has to sync all the files first before you try to access them in order to see all the changes.  Again, that may not be your problem.  I'll say the sync issue another way: you edit a file, this being e-Sword, a topic file, you save it into your cloud drive and close e-Sword.  Hours later you start another computer, and immediately start e-Sword and try to access a changed file.  If the cloud service has not yet synced the files, you will not see that proper changes.  Things that can affect syncing time are the speed of your internet connection, the number of files in the folder that needs to be indexed and checked, and the size and number of files that need to be synced.  Dropbox syncs the smallest files to the largest.  I don't know what OneDrive does.  If there are a lot of large files such as pictures which are shared, this may interfere with sync speed. 

I have used shared files with e-Sword for quite a while without an issue using Dropbox.  I make sure that Dropbox has finish syncing files before using any program which depends one a shared folder. 

That is something I learned in a very difficult way. That said, in my experience, Dropbox is pretty fast when it comes to updating and syncing files, and notifies you when its all done and dusted.

 

Blessings,

[drmathew]

I was about to ask is there anyway we can do a cloud backup of the e sword journal, notes and other personal notes we make? Thanks in advance. Just recently my desk top PC hard disk crashed and all the notes I had written in e sword were lost for eternity. 

[christtheark]

Does anyone here have or know of anyone that has a copy of  e-Sword 11.0, I'm having trouble with the new update with font and other things, and want to go back to the 11.0. I'm running e-Sword with crossover on iMac.

Edited by christtheark, 27 December 2017 - 04:53 PM.