[missing-sync-palmos-talk] Feature Suggestion: PreSync snapshots

[Paul List Hess]

At 6:26 PM -0700 7/29/06, Scott Gruby wrote:
>You might just try running it again instead of re-installing. The problem is that our conduit times out after a few minutes (maybe 15) and unregisters itself. The reason it times out is that everything else is taking a huge amount of time to sync and we have no idea if the sync is working or hung, so we just have to sit around until it is done. Instead of leaving you hanging for hours, we timeout and unregister the conduit. (Unregistering just means that we're going to try again fresh the next time you try to sync.)

Well I am generally able to sync now most of the time, although it still often takes a long time while MS coordinates with all my other sources to get everything synchronized before sending to the Treo.  I notice other people are also having speed issues.

I'd like to see an option where MS will do all it's preparations (pulling, mingling, co-mingling, etc) on a regular schedule and take a snapshot of those results.  Then when I sync to my Treo it can sync very quickly to that most recent snapshot without all the waiting and effort and failures.