ChronoSync™ v1.0 - Release Notes

Welcome to ChronoSync, the automated file synchronization utility for Mac OS X. 

Special notice to Preview Edition users: If you installed the ChronoSync Preview Edition on your computer, you will need to delete your scheduler database in order for the ChronoSync scheduler to work. To do this, locate the "ChronoSync" folder at "~/Library/Application Support" (this is relative to your "Home" folder, if you don't understand what "~" means.) Once located, just drag the entire ChronoSync folder to the trash.

Things you should know about ChronoSync v1.0:

• While it's briefly mentioned in the documentation, it's worth mentioning here again: the "Resolve Aliases" feature should only be used if you have a very special reason to do so. Setting up a bi-directional synchronization with "Resolve Aliases" enabled could potentially lead to duplicates of the items being referenced by aliases.

• ChronoSync refers to symbolic links as aliases, and it it treats them very similarly. However, since symbolic links are not aliases, they require their own very special handling. While ChronoSync correctly deals with symbolic links, it unfortunately cannot update the time stamp for symbolic links due to the fact that the BSD "lutimes()" function is not implemented in Mac OS X. Because of this, bi-directional synchronization that include symbolic links will result in those links being copied back and forth each time you synchronize. This is certainly annoying, but its benign. Fortunately, most Mac OS X applications don't even know what a symbolic link is, let alone create them. Therefore, this problem should be rare.

• The "folder pruning" feature (skip folders that are empty) has been left out at the last minute. This was out of fear for what kind of instability it could potentially introduce into a stable code base. We'll be sure to release it shortly as part of a maintenance release.

• The analysis report works best in landscape mode (kind of obvious, but we thought we'd mention it).

• Not mentioned in the manual is the fact that the columns on the Analyze tab panel are re-sizable. Simply click and drag on the vertical dividers in the column header. Doing so, however, can lead to accidentally scrolling the entire outline view to the right. If you do this, just click on a row and drag the mouse back to the left - everything will come back into view.

• If you schedule a synchronizer document to run that requires automatically mounting a file server, you'll have to add your user name and password to your keychain. This is because there is a problem displaying the "Connect to Server" dialog from within the scheduler's thread. Refer to the "Strategies & Hints" section of the manual for instructions on how to do this.

This is the initial release of ChronoSync! While we have spent a great deal of time trying to ensure the reliability and completeness of this product, there are certain to be a few minor glitches that will arise. If you encounter any difficulties or problems while using this product, please don't hesitate to contact us. The email address is support@econtechnologies.com. We pride ourselves in being responsive to your needs. We'll put every possible effort into making this product as complete and solid as it can be.

Thank you & happy synchronizing,

The Econ EZ Team

2/15/02