The single reason why SugarSync listens to filesystem events is to build the journals and then merge them. I am not sure how that is different, and how that wou

The single reason why SugarSync listens to filesystem events is to build the journals and then merge them. I am not sure how that is different, and how that wouldn't match the user's likely intent. You're right about the fact that there wasn't historical versions. But that was a year back. They're here now, have you not seen them? Unicode encoding is very subtle. The difficulty is that there are several different - but equivalent - unicode encodings for the same strings, and the different filesystems use different normalizations to make sure that they can compare their strings byte-by-byte.