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No alert/warning when sync conflicts causing loss of data

Bug #597141 reported by noskule
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
Ubuntu One Client
Confirmed
Medium
Ubuntu One Client Engineering team
ubuntuone-client (Ubuntu)
Confirmed
Medium
Ubuntu One Client Engineering team

Bug Description

If a sync conflicts a ".u1conflict" file is created. This is the newer version of the document. If I'm not aware of the conflict (what I'm not unless I manually check each file I open) then I edit an old version. Why there is no alert?

Tags: desktop+
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noskule (noskule) wrote :

Example: If I open a OO Document from OO-Menu:File/Recently opened Documents I will not see the conflict file. Depending on what I'm editing, I'm not aware that I'm woring on an old version. When I'm sometime in the future see the conflict I have to review the whole document, If it's a large document this is a lot of work.

So an alert would be important to tell when a conflict file is created!

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Duane Hinnen (duanedesign) wrote :

Thank you for taking the time to submit your idea for improving Ubuntu One. There are plans this cycle for improving the information available to the user. I will forward this on so it can be considered while these improvements are being made.

Please continue to submit any bugs you may find in the future.

thank you,
duanedesign

Changed in ubuntuone-client (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → Wishlist
assignee: nobody → Ubuntu One Desktop+ team (ubuntuone-desktop+)
tags: added: desktop+
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noskule (noskule) wrote :

Why this is set to "wishlist". What I try to tell you is that automatically creating "conflict"-files without warning can produce dataloss on open files. Thes files gets overwritten with an old version if the user isn't aware of the conflict! And I think this is realy bad! I work with openoffice an tiddlywiki. And the u1-client has overwriten both of this files. The only solution is, that I check for conflict files before each save, and that's not realy a solution. So I had to stop using u1. Additionally there are programs that do autosave, so there's no controll at all.

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noskule (noskule) wrote :

See also:
* https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntuone-client/+bug/588265
* https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntuone-client/+bug/594379
* https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntuone-client/+bug/597141

Duane Hinnen (duanedesign)
Changed in ubuntuone-client (Ubuntu):
importance: Wishlist → Medium
summary: - No alert/warning when sync conflicts
+ No alert/warning when sync conflicts causing loss of data
Joshua Hoover (joshuahoover)
Changed in ubuntuone-client (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
Changed in ubuntuone-client:
status: New → Confirmed
importance: Undecided → Medium
assignee: nobody → Ubuntu One Desktop+ team (ubuntuone-desktop+)
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