Hi Jeff,

>After synching both of my platforms of LB together (Palm and
>Windows), I would expect that the ToDo lists on each
>platform would be identical with each other, which they are
>not.
>
>How could this be possible?
>
>I have ensured that I pressed 'Update' on both sides before
>making the comparison, but still no luck.....

I guess the first question is, how different are the two lists? Are we talking something like

A
B
C
D

vs.

A
C
B
D

or are we talking

D
B
C
A

on the other platform? If it's only a minor difference like swapping the order of a few items, then it might be a matter of using floating point on the desktop vs. fixed point on the Palm. Catherine posted a little more on this in a response to another thread.

If it's major significant differences, then we'll certainly look into the problem.

>I am quite dismayed, as this indicates some problem with the
>data that is invisible to me. I have run the "sanity
>checker" several times, but it is not helping, as I am still
>at my wits end.... :)

One additional thing to check would be the HotSync log to see if the Life Balance conduit has reported any problems.

>LLamas, do you have any idea what could be going wrong, and
>what I can do to trouble-shoot it?

We've got our little llama thinkings caps on....

>Another anomally which I have noticed, which may or may not
>be related to this "out of synch" problem, is that I have a
>task, set to "routinely" every 6 months with 1 week lead
>time. I have used the classic "work around" for skipping
>the original instance (ie, setting effort to zero, checking
>off as completed so that the item goes to sleep until 6
>months - 2 weeks have passed), yet the item keeps
>re-appearing on my ToDo list after Hotsynching, as if
>nothning has happened.
>
>I have also noticed a few items seemingly re-appear or
>revert to previous versions of themselves after I have
>changed the text, or deleted them. I have not been able to
>pinpoint any of these with any accuracy, but I am sure it is
>happening regularly.

Okay, are you changing things primarily on the desktop or the Palm, or on both platforms? Have you had any data conflicts that you needed to resolve? If you can narrow it down to a reproducible case that would be very helpful.

>Please help me with any insights to this or similar problems
>that other users may have reported.

We did have a problem that sounds somewhat similar during the beta program which we eventually traced to a byte-ordering problem in the conduit and fixed. I don't think we've had any similar reports since release though, but I'm sure the other llamas will chime in if they know of anything.

We may have to ask you for your data to figure this one out. Let us know if you can think of anything else that might be related.

Thanks,

Scott
The Other Llama