Bug 73693

Summary: Resolve conflicts should halt sync until resolved
Product: [iFolder] iFolder Denali Reporter: Victor Billings <vbillings>
Component: Client - MacAssignee: Arul Selvan <rarul>
Status: VERIFIED FIXED QA Contact: Jared Allen <jpallen>
Severity: Enhancement    
Priority: P4 - Low    
Version: iFolder Denali   
Target Milestone: Future   
Hardware: Macintosh   
OS: Mac OS X 10.3   
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Description Victor Billings 2005-03-17 17:46:00 UTC
Description of Problem : The user has many conflicts. The client continues to
sync while the user is attempting to resolve a conflict. The user continues to
be notified of new conflicts even though they are already attemptint to resolve
the initial conflict. This leaves the user feeling like they are being barraged
by messages and looking for a halt button. There is no halt button so the user
may be tempted to simply close the client. Which of course will bring up the
conflict resolver again once they launch the client again.

Steps to replicate :
1. Create a bunch of conflicts between two shared clients while they are offline.
2. Start the clients up and allow them to sync. 
3. Attempt to resolve the first conflict while the client is still syncing. 

Actual Result : The conflict notifications continue while the user is attempting
to make a decision about the state of their data. This makes it difficult for
the user to concentrate on the decision at hand. 

Expected Result : The user should not be notified of new conflicts while they
are trying to resolve one conflict. This can be approached in several different
ways. Its possible that halting the sync until the conflict is resolved is one
way to approach this problem. Alternatively, the sync could continue and the
files that are good can sync while the conflicts get logged silently. Later the
user can see that there are conflicts and deal with them appropriately.
Comment 1 Jared Allen 2005-05-04 16:59:58 UTC
Moving to SP1
Comment 2 Kalidas Balakrishnan 2007-02-26 13:39:04 UTC
Arul, take a look at this sync issue
Comment 3 Arul Selvan 2009-03-25 09:41:35 UTC
Sync cannot be stopped since the new updates has to be received form server. And also out of bound conflict resolution need to be honoured.
Comment 4 Puspanjali Panda 2011-07-20 06:36:43 UTC
Closing this bug as per Comment3.Please reopen if you find any issues.