When is Sync'ing Performed Between Two PC's?

[SC]

I have successfully established my sync'ing between my two tablet PC's using
the built in sharing in ON 2007 using my home wireless network.

My question is when is the sync'ing performed? My scenario is let's say I
work late on my Tablet PC One in OneNote 2007 before I go to bed. I wake up
the next morning and want to take my Tablet PC Two with me to work today. I
want last nite's entries on PC One to update to PC Two before I leave the
house.

Do I just start up both PC's and assume they are sync'ing after a few
minutes in the background without any opening of OneNote on either machine?

or

Do I fire up both PC's and open up OneNote on one of the PC's to initiate
pulling of new data from one to the other?

or

Do I have to fire both PC's up and open OneNote on both machines to start
the sync'ing between the two of them.

My reason for asking is this was my scenario last nite and before I took off
for work I fired up both PC's assuming they were sync'ing while I warmed up
my car. When I got to work I discovered that the additions I made last nite
on one of them were not on the other.

 

[Rainald Taesler]

SC shared these words of wisdom:

I have successfully established my sync'ing between my two tablet
PC's using the built in sharing in ON 2007 using my home wireless
network.

OK . I assume you have the notebooks stored only on *one* of the two
machines and opened them on the other one via a network connection.
Right?
And you don not *close* any of the notebooks and leave them open when
closing ON. Right?

My question is when is the sync'ing performed?

Normally synching is done automatically.

But one may enforce synching manually to make sure that all of the
latest changes were synched. This is done using the menu-item
"Synchronisation" in the "File" menu.

Whether the data are in sync is shown by the little icon on the
notebooks' headers in the Navigation Pane.
If it's red, notebooks are not synched. If it's green, everything is
OK.

My scenario is
let's say I work late on my Tablet PC One in OneNote 2007 before I
go to bed. I wake up the next morning and want to take my Tablet
PC Two with me to work today. I want last nite's entries on PC One
to update to PC Two before I leave the house.

As said, normally data are synched automatically.
But to make sure that everything is synched just enforce synching by
calling it from the menu before going to bed and shutting down the
device to go out in the morning (or better: not shut it down but send
it into hibernation [but that's a different issue]).
And in case of working in the morning prior to leaving the house do it
again then.

My reason for asking is this was my scenario last nite and before I
took off for work I fired up both PC's assuming they were sync'ing
while I warmed up my car. When I got to work I discovered that the
additions I made last nite on one of them were not on the other.

I do not understand this.
Was ON open on both machines?
Were the notebooks open?

Rainald

 

[Patrick Schmid [MVP]]

In addition to what Rainald said, syncing only happens while OneNote is
open. Specifically, the OneNote where you made the changes will sync it
to the actual OneNote files (which prob. happens while you are working
in that particular OneNote anyhow). You'll notice that it's fully synced
when you see green checkmarks next to all your notebooks in the notebook
pane (which you'll only see if the notebooks are not local to that
computer). If you want to make sure the changes are in the other
OneNote, you need to open it to have it sync itself against the OneNote
files. So in a practical scenario: Just verify or wait a few seconds
after you stopped making changes before you close that OneNote. Then
open up the other OneNote and wait till it's done syncing.
I personally just keep OneNote open on my desktop and tablet most of the
time.

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[Rainald Taesler]

Patrick Schmid [MVP] shared these words of wisdom:

I personally just keep OneNote open on my desktop and tablet most
of the time.

Me too.
And always using Hiberbnation instead of shut-down it's always open
whenever I switch on the computers.

Rainald

 

[Erik Sojka (MVP)]

OneNote needs to be open and a network connection to the shared cop of
the Notebook(s) must be available. ON will attempt a sync as soon as it
starts up, and will perform a frequent sync of material as time goes by.

You should be able to see current sync status for each Notebook by
looking for the circular sync icon on each Notebook. If it contains a
checkmark, then all content has been synced. You can also foce a sync by
right-clicking on the Notebook and selecting "Sync this notebook now".

 

[Rainald Taesler]

Patrick Schmid [MVP] shared these words of wisdom:

I personally just keep OneNote open on my desktop and tablet most
of the time.

Going through my notes on the Beta to sort out stuff I stumbled over
the following:

"ON is designed to be closed & opened a lot"

(Patrick Schmid, Fr. July 28, 2006 21:11,
thread "Re: Let me try to get this straight")

<g>
Rainald

 

[Patrick Schmid [MVP]]

What can I say...habits change

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[Rainald Taesler]

Patrick Schmid [MVP] shared these words of wisdom:

What can I say...habits change

LOL

Rainald