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Another day, another series of betas. There are a few minor fixes in there, but if you're having trouble with the new "your clocks are too different" check with touch device syncing, this beta for you.
A word about this check: I had a conversation with a user a few weeks ago that was seeing consistent data loss—entries were getting deleted every time he synced. We traced this down to a difference in clocks between the two devices. MacJournal uses the modification dates of the entries compared to the date of the last sync to decide what to sync. If one machine thinks it's really 30 or 40 seconds later or earlier than it really is, the syncing can go awry because it might decide something should be deleted that really shouldn't. The check was meant to prevent issues like that. The threshold is set at 25 seconds in 5.2.5. This release extends it to 60 seconds and also allows you to continue syncing after seeing the warning. It's still important to keep your system clocks as close as possible (since there really is only one correct time and all of your computers should be as close as possible to that), but since so many people were syncing successfully even with incorrect system clocks, it seems like a good idea to re-enable that. Please give it a try and let me know if you're having problems syncing.
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Good Day,
When I try the automatic upgrade, It errors out with "An error occurred in retrieving update information. Please try again later."
I decided to come here and try a manual install, however, when I click on the ZIP link, the server times out.
I have tried this on Chrome, Safari, and Firefox.
Kind Regards,
Bryan J Zimmerman
I tried downloading this just now from the link and it worked for me. It might have been temporary server issues; please try your download again.
Dan,
Have you left the RTF MJ notes uploaded to iPhone (iPhone4, iOS4.1) as editable on the iPhone for a reason? Any changes in these notes are not being transferred back to the Mac but are overwritten by any change in the rtf back on the Mac. Could we maybe have a pref to disable editing of the rtf on the iPhone?
Syncable changes, as usual, OK with plain text.
And any prospect of having slightly faster search function on the iPhone - the app gets pretty slow with the typing of each letter in the search bubble; and maybe a global (ie all journals) search?
Thanks for the continuing work on this great app.
Steve J
All entries are editable on the phone, unless specifically marked as non-editable. A setting to disable editing of rich entries synced over to the phone is an interesting idea; it's not possible right now but I'll put it on the list for the future.
Better searching is on the list as well. It can't reuse the same search index that the Mac uses, but there are some other searching tools that it could use and those will be investigated. If you don't want to search the text, turning that off can speed things up.
Thanks for the comment,
Dan
Dan, the problem is that on the iPhone you can't tell which ones are simple text or rtf. Any changes you make in the rtf docs on the iPhone don't get synced back to Mac and are overwritten in case of future changes on the Mac. Thus it's a bit dangerous to do the editing on the iPhone. Fine to simply view but not to edit.
Steve J
The changes should sync back; it sounds like something else is going on. Please email me directly and we can try to figure it out. Thanks.
Hi Dan
this beta works for me regarding the time difference issue. I sync between iPad en Mac with no problems.
Two questions:
1. the beta expires in 8 days, what do I do after that?
2. how is it possible that when I manually set the time on iPad equal to the time on the Mac, that after a week both times differ about 30 seconds? The clocks can't be that inaccurate, can they?
Is there a way to automatically sync both time settings when I sync the device using iTunes?
Thanks!
btw I use MacJournal very often (every day) in my lessons as a teacher to record/evaluate practical music assignments by pupils. Works very nice using the iPad in the classroom.
Joost Overmars Netherlands
I just tested this and it works, the previous version didn't work. I have my Mac set to update usint ntp and my iphone uses the time my phone carrier use ... apparently they are bout 35 sec different from each other.
Joost:
1. A new release will be out before then, probably this weekend.
2. It's hard to set the exact seconds on the iPad, which may account for some of the difference. I'd hope that one side or the other shouldn't drift a full 60 seconds (the threshold in this beta) over the course of just a few days though.
I'm not sure about what happens when you sync the device in iTunes, but I would hope it syncs the time. Alternatively, the iPad should sync to the Internet time servers just like the Mac can.
Thanks; I'm glad you like MacJournal!
jem:
I'm glad the new version works better. I didn't realize originally just how inaccurate the time coming from the cell towers can be originally, so this should work better for most people.
Dan and all,
I've seen an iPod touch user reporting somewhere in MacJournal Support forum that syncing iTunes data between Mac and iPod touch also sync'ed system clocks of the two devices. It would be worth trying this between Mac and iPad.
Thanks, nao. I suspect it might do the same thing for a WiFi-only iPad. I'm not sure how a 3G iPad is handled (especially if it doesn't currently have an active data plan). I'll see if I can find out though.
@Nao & Dan
Thanks dan!
I looked at the settings on my 3G iPad and in iTunes and wasn't able to find any time syncing setting. so.....
Love MacJournal! The full screen interface is my favorite. Thank you!
Love MacJournal! The full screen interface is my favorite. Thank you!
Wow, evidently, I love MacJournal so much I managed to post the same comment twice.
Anyway, thank you.
How big is too big? I'm attracted to using MJ as a research tool for several reasons and I'm wondering just how big a database can be (is it a database or xml file?) filled with mostly textual research data. I'm assuming roughly 1000-2000 pages of text organized in a few dozen nested folders. Can I expect this to work or is the program not suited to this type of use?
Yes, I know about DevonThink but have eliminated it due to some missing features I require.
Any reply would be helpful. Thanks.
Andy: Thanks! I'm glad that you like it. Please let me know if there's anything I can do for you.
Anon: There's technically no limit. The text of each entry is stored in a separate file, so the amount of text is not a limiting factor to application launching or saving time. The database itself is stored in an XML file, so you may see a little slowdown if you add tens of thousands of entries, but that's not normal.
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