Jerry Krinock
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Re: Macster conflict with Dog?
Reply #9 - Oct 16th, 2011 at 1:13pm
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So far, I've been unable to reproduce this problem. Here's what I've done so far
Start out with the default bookmarks in Safari and Camino. This is a total of 57 bookmarks in 11 folders. The idea is: enough to not be a trivial test, but not so much that it's going to take a long time to examine results. Create a Bookmarkshelf with Safari and Camino as Clients. After the initial Import, Export. Verify that Safari, Camino and Bookmarkshelf all have the same bookmarks. Click the Settings ▸ Simple Agents. Check the first 3 boxes on the left, to Import, Sort, and Export. Quit BookMacster (or don't quit BookMacster, I've tried it both ways, same result). In Camino, begin a long download which is going to take a couple hours. In Safari, click Show All Bookmarks. Drag a bookmark to a new location. Wait a few minutes for sync to occur.
Expected Result: Safari bookmarks should be sorted, but Camino should not, because the default Simple Agents do not attempt to export to a browser which cannot accept bookmarks while it is running, while it is running. When I click in the menu BookMacster ▸ Logs, I should see an entry indicating Skipped write to running Camino.
Actual Result: As expected.
However, in wildfox' description, a "message telling me to close the first browser" was mentioned. This can happen if the Agent is set to Quit and relaunch browser if needed during the Export, and can be the case if Bookdog was set to do that, and Bookdog settings were imported.
So to test this, in the Bookmarkshelf window I clicked Settings ▸ Agents ▸ Advanced and changed the option on Export from Cancel if not allowed by browser running to Quit and relaunch browser if needed. Then I repeated the test, with BookMacster running this time. As expected, I got the message that Camino needed to be quit, and, of course, when I told Camino to quit, Camino told me that it had a download in progress. Wildfox does not say how wildfox responded to this, but in my tests, I cancelled the quit, so that the download continued. In that case I got the same result as originally; nothing happened to Camino bookmarks, as expected.
I then ran into a snafu, unrelated to BookMacster, when updating to Mac OS 10.7.2. So I'm going to delay further tests until tonight; maybe I'll do a screencast of what happens. In the meantime, if wildfox or anyone else who has noticed such an issue wants to suggest a variation in my steps that will reproduce the problem, please do reply and tell us.
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