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Dear Unison mailing list,

I hope this email finds you well.

We have been using Unison for more than a year and we are very satisfied
with the program, however we are reaching out to you because we encountered
a small issue with the sync file in unstable network conditions.

Let me explain our use case: We have more than 20 clients that sync to one
server. The clients and the server have Unison installed. These clients can
lose connection and get it back hours after.

In the last past months we have seen this error repeat across the clients.

Roots:
  /www/uploads
  ssh://user@server//www/uploads


*Error: Lost connection with the server*
Unison 2.53.5 (ocaml 4.14.2) log started at 2025-09-17 at 12:29:52

Roots:
  /www/uploads
  ssh://user@server//www/uploads

*Error: Warning: the archives are locked.*

If no other instance of unison is running, the locks should be removed.
The file /unison/lkb3c54ad2dbed82fb3d2ee570190a9551 on host myclient should
be deleted
The file /home/
[email protected]/.unison/lka45db4ec67afbd5f4fbc6a3bc9ba8225 on host
myserver12 should be deleted
Please delete lock files as appropriate and try again.

Once we delete the files in the client and the server (sometimes the lock
file is only present on the server) the program resumes to run
successfully.

Would you have any suggestions/improvements or any unison commands that we
can run to prevent this type issue? We appreciate any feedback you could
give us.

Looking forward to hearing from you.
Thanks in advance.

Best regards,
Daniela Rivas | Devops

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ons/improvements or any unison commands that we can run to prevent this typ=
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ns-serif">Daniela Rivas | Devops</span></span></div><div style=3D"color:rgb=
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