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I hope they fix the file locking issues Mesh has had since the beginning. I was a big fan and user of Mesh for quite a while but switched to Dropbox 100% becau

I hope they fix the file locking issues Mesh has had since the beginning. I was a big fan and user of Mesh for quite a while but switched to Dropbox 100% because of this problem. For whatever reason Live Mesh appears to lock files for way too long such that if you use it to sync files that are always changing (because you're a compulsive manual saver in your IDE for example) you're bound to see conflicts between the program trying to save the file and Mesh. This sort of conflict occurred for me all the time when using Mesh, even the newest one in Live Essentials 2011.. make a change, save it, now Mesh has to sync that file, you make another change and save it again and your code editor complains about not being able to write to the file (because Mesh is holding a lock on it for far longer than seems necessary). Haven't had this issue once with Dropbox so that's why I use Dropbox and ditched Mesh. If anyone from Microsoft's Mesh/SkyDrive/Win8 teams sees this, please fix this issue because it makes Mesh nearly unusable for me, but other than this one thing I prefer Mesh to Dropbox (I like being able to sync any directory anywhere on my system without jumping through hoops, YMMV).

bwarp 15y ago
I can't say I've ever experienced this. Are you sure it's not your AV software interfering with Mesh? I use Security Essentials on any Windows machines if that is a comparison point.
- georgemcbay 15y ago
  The only AV I use is also MSE. I'm fairly sure this is a Mesh issue as I've only run into when Mesh is running and since switching to almost exactly the same setup to Dropbox (I had to restructure my directories so they all live within the 'Dropbox' but other than that things stayed the same) the issue has disappeared.
justncase80 15y ago
Why are you using mesh to save source code? This is what source control software is for. Getting it onto other machines is only half the point, also revision history, branching, blaming and conflict resolution are important. Not that that should detract from your main point about locking for too long, that isn't good. But I wouldn't recommend using that sort of thing for source code is what I'm sayin'.
- georgemcbay 15y ago
  I'm not using Mesh for SCC, I'm using it for file sync. Basically, I want my desktop and laptop to have a set of directories (including, but not limited to, some that include source code) that are always in sync so I can switch from one to the other seamlessly. I use source code control (svn and git) in addition to the local file sync.

bwarp 15y ago

I can't say I've ever experienced this. Are you sure it's not your AV software interfering with Mesh? I use Security Essentials on any Windows machines if that is a comparison point.

georgemcbay 15y ago
The only AV I use is also MSE. I'm fairly sure this is a Mesh issue as I've only run into when Mesh is running and since switching to almost exactly the same setup to Dropbox (I had to restructure my directories so they all live within the 'Dropbox' but other than that things stayed the same) the issue has disappeared.

justncase80 15y ago

Why are you using mesh to save source code? This is what source control software is for. Getting it onto other machines is only half the point, also revision history, branching, blaming and conflict resolution are important. Not that that should detract from your main point about locking for too long, that isn't good. But I wouldn't recommend using that sort of thing for source code is what I'm sayin'.

georgemcbay 15y ago
I'm not using Mesh for SCC, I'm using it for file sync. Basically, I want my desktop and laptop to have a set of directories (including, but not limited to, some that include source code) that are always in sync so I can switch from one to the other seamlessly. I use source code control (svn and git) in addition to the local file sync.