User manual LAPLINK LAPLINK GOLD 12

[. . . ] 1 2 Laplink Gold 12 Copyright Notice No part of this publication may be reproduced, transmitted, transcribed, stored in a retrieval system, or translated into any human or computer language, in any form or by any means, without the express written permission of Laplink Software, Inc. , 10210 NE Points Drive, Suite 400, Kirkland, WA 98033, U. S. A. Copyright (c) 1995-1996 Jean-loup Gailly and Mark Adler. Technical Support Contact Information Please visit www. laplink. com/support for any technical support issues or questions that you may have. For other inquiries, please see contact details below: email: CustomerService@laplink. com Tel (USA): (425) 952. 6000 Fax(USA): (425) 952. 6002 Tel (UK): 44 (0) 870. 2410. 983 Fax (UK): 44 (0) 870. 2410. 984 Trademarks Laplink, the Laplink logo, Laplink Gold, SpeedSync, and SmartXchange are registered trademarks in the United States and/or other countries of Laplink Software, Inc. Acrobat and the Acrobat logo are trademarks of Adobe Systems Incorporated or its subsidiaries and may be registered in certain jurisdictions. [. . . ] If Laplink was not running to begin with on the Guest computer, it is shut down automatically. TIP For a record of your latest synchronizations, refer to the Laplink log file located by clicking Options, and then Logging. 95 Dealing with conflicts When you are keeping folders on two computers in sync, a conflict occurs when a file has been modified on both computers since the last time you synchronized. You can handle these conflicts when you preview or run the agent, or you can set options to handle them automatically. For example, if you specify that conflicts are to be displayed every time you run an agent, old conflicts will appear every time you run the agent. The alternative is to exclude old conflicts, regardless of how other conflicts are handled. NOTE To retain both versions of files in old conflicts, click this option on the Advanced tab in Properties: Exclude Previously Skipped Files. Conflicts between files Conflicts occur when you modify a file on both of your computers. Since both files are new, you need to decide how to handle them: · Copy either the older or the newer file to the other folder, replacing the file already in that folder; · Copy either the older or the newer file to the other folder and give the file a new name. Nothing is replaced; · Skip the conflict without copying either file. When you skip a conflict you carry it over to future synchronizations. There are two categories of conflicts: · New conflicts Files have been changed on both computers since the previous synchronization; · Old conflicts Conflicts were left unresolved in earlier synchronizations. The two computers now have different versions of the same file, and both are dated prior to the latest synchronization. You can either treat these conflicts as new conflicts or ignore them and let both versions remain. Changing how all conflicts are handled By default, each conflict is presented for resolution when you run an Xchange Agent. You can change this so that conflicts are handled automatically. You can modify the conflict setting from the Xchange Agent's Properties tab. Ignoring old conflicts By default, old and new conflicts are treated alike, according to the settings on the Xchange 96 Other conflicts You may encounter other kinds of conflicts in these situations: · When you attempt to copy a file or folder with a long name to a drive that does not accept long names; · When you attempt to synchronize a file with a folder; this happens only when a file and a folder have exactly the same name. Long name conflicts If you do not shorten long names, you are given this choice when you run an agent: either copy the file and give the copy a short name, or skip the conflict without copying the file. Conflicts between files and folders If you do not rename the file to avoid the conflict, you are given this choice when you run an agent: either copy both the file and folder and give the copies new names, or skip the conflict without copying either. The best way to handle either of these conflicts is to rename files: shorten the long names or rename the file so that it does not conflict with the name of the folder. If you set an agent to run unattended, for example, neither file in a conflict is copied. Laplink Gold 12 Customizing an Xchange Agent Instead of a two-way synchronization, you can customize an agent so that files within folder pairs are copied in one direction only, from one computer to the other. Among other modifications, you can create a shortcut icon to run an agent directly from the desktop, run an agent without a preview, and limit synchronizations just to the files that already appear on both computers. Add Pair-- Add another folder pair to this Xchange Agent. Direction--To change the direction of the copy first click one or more of the folders. Run-- Starts the Agent. Preview--Displays what actions the agent will perform. To customize an agent, you must open it from within Laplink or Xchange Agent. OR · In Xchange Agent, select File, and then click Open Xchange Agent. Click the agent file and then click Open. Changing the direction of copy When you create an Xchange Agent, all folder pairs are set for a two-way exchange of files. [. . . ] This starts to happen when the conversation exceeds 32, 000 characters. If you intend to save a lengthy conversation, begin saving before this limit is reached. To save a conversation, scroll to the upper part of the Text Chat window, click Edit, and then Select All. You can then switch to another Windows program such as Notepad, paste the text, and save it as a file. [. . . ]