Re: Access from two computers

The .ecg should only record the file
changes between one and the "other" synchronized copies. If the
"main" file is very complex in its state it can have the result of
a very large file especially if the "other" synchronized copies
are not opened (or open) to record/write those changes and
therefore reduce the .ecg file in its size.

Friedhelm

On 10/7/2015 12:38 AM, r634718-/[email protected] [eccopro] wrote:

>>Ecco
has a complex way of synchronizing files ...

>>if
I remember correctly it slowed down the system
because it constantly updated files.

I
think it depends. Network bandwidth is not likely a
problem. But what he may be referring to is the
huge disk and to a lesser extent cpu resources it
takes to sync certain files, and how they can take a
very long time to sync. In some files the .ecg can
get huge and so can the .eco files rendering Ecco
syncing effectively useless because it takes so long
for the files to sync when opened.
I haven't used syncing in years because my most
important file doesn't play well with Ecco sync.

In
this particular case, the file uses a lot of rules
and scripts that update many items every time the
file is opened. So the .ecg has to handle a
relatively large number of automatic changes every
single time either file is opened. I suspect that
this is why this happens with these particular
files.

As
a rough example of what happens ... an unsynced file
starts out at say <2mb. When the sync copy is
created and opened, the .ecg grows to ~20mb (and
takes about 10 minutes of heavy disk/cpu use to
write). When that is closed and the original copy
is reopened then closed the .ecg goes to say 40mb...
then 80mb on the next round and so on
exponentially. It never gets smaller, only larger.
And both the original and sync'd copies soon get to
be ~20-40mb themselves. It takes forever for Ecco
to write the sync info on a file of that size maybe
10 minutes or more every time either copy is opened
and it gets longer each time. Syncing is
essentially useless.

A
"simple" file can sync very fast and use little
resources. A "complex" file can render syncing
effectively useless.

So
I think the amount of resources and time consumed
with Ecco syncing depends on the content of the
files. In some cases it is prohibitively consuming
rendering syncing effectively useless.

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