World: r3wp

The file selector is horrid, but in particular, I typed the name 
of a new file, which happened to have spaces in it, but instead got 
a number of files, for each part of the name. This is very unexpected

Hmmm....

There does seem to be a problem with syncing when you install Altme.


Today I had was enjoying one of my too regular Windows installations 
on my desktop. I installed altme beta. It synced only 8 chats. A 
dot to myself forced a sync of all personal converstations.  A dot 
to Dot forced a sync of Dot.


So I removed the beta and installed AltME 1.0.1. It synced 10 chats. 
 A dot to myself forced a sync of all personal converstations.  A 
dot to Dot forced a sync of DevCon2005 because I posted in the wrong 
place.

I can't remember this happening before Rebol3 was upgraded but I 
could have a bad memory.

I've reinstalled both Windows and Linux on my machine. I'm only able 
to run Altme 1.0.1 on Win (don't ask me why new beta crashes all 
the time on clean installation while it was working without problem 
on old one) and it synced no rooms. On Linux I have no problem with 
latest beta and syncing works without problem. So I spent some nice 
minutes clicking on red rooms (but it's better to have something 
to click on than otherwise :)

Wow.........it crashes!?!  


OK guys, you need to shove all this into the Feedback, becuase all 
I do is copy and paste this stuff over to the site myself, since 
it is built to track all of this.

Reichart: I'm pretty sure that this crash is in no way related to 
AltMe or REBOL. Something mysterious happened to my computer and 
lot of things that were working are not now. I don't know the reason, 
but I'm sure it must be some HW fault.

Cool.

After first reinstall I was not even able to run REBOL. I clicked 
on icon and nothing happened. So I reinstalled second time and now 
it's working (brr, not-working REBOL, that were really bad 5 minutes 
:).

Rebolek, did you do any hardware changes to your machine recently 
?

If not, maybe it's time to open the case and see if everything is 
plugged in properly. Check RAM, PCI cards etc. are seated properly

Anton: Actually the only change I made was, that I moved my computer 
by a meter or so. I've checked RAM with memtest and both GFX and 
soundcard looks OK.

Sometimes just reseating the cards and/or RAM modules can fix them. 
Heating and cooling of the components can raise them out of the their 
sockets over time.

also cleaning the contacts helps (a rubber eraser is good for this)

A small hand-held vaccuum cleaner can help get rid of dust, which 
might be slightly conductive.. :) I don't actually have one myself, 
I just use  a full-size vaccuum cleaner carefully :)

:-) I think, Rebolek's computer case is always open:-)

I got an "Invalid username or password" again, this time during starting 
AltME and auto-login. It was accompanied by an error abort, which 
I sent in to feedback

This time I had upgraded the server from 1.1.24, I think, to 1.1.28

problem: after I've posted my message, content is not refresh, I 
can't see answers, but then i post next  message i see that  there 
are some messages - answers for me

julia, it's an old syncing problem that is well known

but apparently very hard to fix

and what i have to do?

there is not much to do, but sometimes posting something in the dot 
group helps syncing. sometimes logging out and in again helps, but 
not always

thanks

Julia, are you on dial-up?

.

here's an idea: how about some kind of softlinks to specific places 
internally to AltME? Say I want to link to another group, a specific 
check list or a calendar day, a bug report in a bug tracker or a 
file in the filesharing tool.

I suggested a path notation to each message (or at least to a date) 
some time ago.

On hte list already.  We are looking into XPath type stuff right 
now in fact for other stuff as well.

That would be cool.

Anyone else getting intermittent dropouts of your AltMe connection, 
or is it just me?

Fairly often.

not me today ...

I have never experienced the syncing problem. I am wondering if it 
might not help for all of us to fill out a detailed questionaire 
about our hardware, operating system, ISP, and anything else that 
could possibly be causing this problem.  Perhaps by examining these 
filled out questionaires a common cause can be located and then fixed.

brianH, I experienced some dropouts a couple of days ago, which also 
affected rebol.net, but that is gone now.

On AltME 1.1.28, Windows 2000, I just uploaded a new PDF. Immediately 
thereafter, the local file was shown as out of date

When I downloaded it back from the server, I got this:

Download failed for Syllable Inc./Marketing/De_Graaff_OSS_adoptiegedrag_van_ondernemers_webversie.pdf 
because write-failed - Is the file open or in use?

This keeps happening at the end of the download, so I can't even 
access the file from AltME

What's the size? I think the current limit is 2-3 Mb.

Ehm, 2.4 MB. Yes, that could be it, but the upload was OK, apart 
from the wrong status, and the download seems to go to 100%

Please send that to AlteME feedback.  In fact since our system for 
tracking bugs is really good from the site, that is the best place 
to post bugs.  If you have a question though, you are always welcome 
to ask me directly, I will try to answer what can be answered.

I'm starting to see regular recycle errors again ...:(

All of a sudden?

Did you change you max messages over 100?

Not recently.  Let me check to see what it is now.

It was 400 ... I've changed it to 100.

I think what we might do is set this to 100, let people change it, 
but only while they are in session.  When they exist, set it back 
to 100.

Did you mean exit?

He does.

:)