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Barra (roantreb) wrote : Re: [Bug 608474] [NEW] hard drive files over-written by older server files

Hi John,

That is correct. I seem to have glanced over them before. There are
.u1conflict files which seem to be up to date with what was done before it
was overwritten.

Regards,
Barra

On 2 August 2010 05:13, John Lenton <email address hidden> wrote:

> On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 10:35:40PM -0000, Barra wrote:
> > Public bug reported:
> >
> > Running Ubuntu-One on Intrepid and have now had several instances of the
> > latest file versions on my laptop being overwritten by the older ones
> > from the Ubuntu-One server. I'm only synchronising the Documents folder
> > on my home folder. I've attached the log. Incredibly irritating as I've
> > now lost a day of work on 2 different occasions.
>
> that shouldn't happen, ever.
> What *could* happen in certain circumstances is that the local
> syncdaemon thinks (either correctly or in error) that the server
> has a new version and at the same time that it has local
> un-synchronized changes. In such a situation, the local file will be
> renamed by adding .u1conflict to the filename. Could you confirm
> whether you have .u1conflict files?
>
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> hard drive files over-written by older server files
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/608474
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