Comments on: Conduit - synchronize Your data in Easy Way

By: Darth Vader

Darth Vader — Sun, 18 Apr 2010 17:16:30 +0000

Easy my ass! I’ve gave up on this program once before and I though “lets check it again, it had potential”…

This is by far the worst programmed piece of software I have ever used. A lot of things just doesn’t work, it has a nice tendency to fuck your things up and among other things IT’S FREAKING SLOW. I tried syncing 1 directory with at max 20 files, it took him 3 minutes… Am faster in syncing files using pen and a paper. Not to mention that network sync has to be done in exact order or it will not work.

Oh and when you try to sync using network you HAVE to do it this way: Firstly make remote provide a Network, then add local home folder. Start Conduit on other computer. Add local folder provider… add remote folder provider… then on other computer change the local folder to anything you need, then change on other computer local folder… and voila.. you have slowest sync too up and … well not exactly running but we’ll say so… And that is like SIMPLE…

And all this has to be done in exact way… or you won’t make it work…

By: Roger

Roger — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 17:01:36 +0000

I look in .config/conduit/conduit.log (it’s 4MB big) and see loads of [CRITICAL] UNKNOWN CONVERSION ERROR messages.

I don’t know why it needs to convert anything. Just compare dates and copy the newer in each case. These are just ordinary files that I regularly synchronize between Windows PCs and my USB drive using “Synchronize IT”.

The message [CRITICAL] UNKNOWN SYNCHRONIZATION ERROR appears towards the end of the log file.

To see file synchronization done really well, on Windows (only), take a look at “Synchronize IT” (shareware).

By: Roger

Roger — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 16:35:01 +0000

Conduit just says “Error synchronizing” when it’s 20% through. Where is the log file kept? Is there any way to determine what exactly the error is?

What I’m trying to do is synchronize files between a tree of directories on a USB and a similar one on my hard drive.

By: Chris

Chris — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 11:23:04 +0000

Sync between computers is possible. I mounted a samba share then set up the sync link as two folders. Might be other ways to do it, but this was the quick and dirty way. Not the most secure way either. For private document syncs between my laptop and main computer, I use Unison over SSH to link the two directories directly.

Seems a little buggy as well. Came up with error messages about working configuration, but worked anyway. Picassa web downloaded to my computer, but would not upload photos to sever.

By: Christopher

Christopher — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 06:31:16 +0000

I hope that more providers are added in the near future. It’s pretty much useless right now unless you use Google services, which I do not.

By: threethirty

threethirty — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 03:38:22 +0000

Can this be used to sync between to computers?

By: sidrit

sidrit — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 08:30:55 +0000

Seems to be in the hardy repos now.

http://archive.ubuntu.com hardy/universe conduit 0.3.6-1ubuntu1

By: lodder

lodder — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 11:30:34 +0000

Instead of using getdeb site. You can now use:

deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/conduit/ubuntu hardy main
deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/conduit/ubuntu hardy main

in you source files.

By: Andrew

Andrew — Sat, 10 May 2008 01:22:33 +0000

They made GDebi Package Installer for a reason…