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Synk Standard

Backup & synchronization utility.

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Synk on steroids?

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Contributed by: Hal Itosis Wednesday, May 17 2006 @ 12:07 PM PDT

Product Platform: MacOSX

Used Product For: Over One Year

Recommend Product: YES

Let's compare Synk version 5.2.2 to version 5.2.3 for size, shall we?

$ ls -hln /Applications/Synk 5.2.2/Synk.app/Contents/MacOS
total 1768
-rwxr-xr-x   1 501  501    774K Apr 28 10:27 Synk
-rwxr-xr-x   1 501  501    105K Apr 28 10:27 synkd

$ ls -hln /Applications/Synk 5.2.3/Synk.app/Contents/MacOS
total 33688
-rwxr-xr-x   1 501  501     14M May 17 12:00 Synk
-rwxr-xr-x   1 501  501      2M May 17 12:00 synkd

• Synk executable is now 18 times bigger, and
• synkd executable is now 21 times bigger.

Good heavens! Why is that?

Note:
Resources and Frameworks are virtually identical in size,
...it's just the executables that got bloated beyond belief.

Do the items listed in "What's new" account for all this?

-HI-

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Synk on steroids? - Hal Itosis

Well, *something* is fishy. I posted
the exact same question at the Synk
forum, and they deleted the message!!!

So much for "developer response".

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Wednesday, May 17 2006 @ 10:29 PM PDT

Synk on steroids? - synk-developer

Dear Evan,

The post was removed due to your chronic history of trolling and generally being obnoxious on the forum. My dedication to top-notch support does not, unfortunately, extend to such activities.

The forum is a place for productive and constructive support and discussion, not spleen-venting, and if you can approach matters with that stance, I would love to have you back as a contributing member of the forum. Acknowledged, while somewhat sarcastic that post was certainly a step up from usual, so perhaps this is already indicative of movement in that direction.

Regards,
Ben Rister

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Thursday, May 18 2006 @ 07:26 AM PDT

"Trolling" !? - Hal Itosis

You're welcome.

Fortunately, my efforts did eventually contribute to the restoration
in version 5.2 of a certain vital function, which had been stripped
out of 5.0 when 5.1 was released.

Call it what you will, but the result ultimately fell in my favor...
and is there now to benefit *all* Synk users, present and future.
(Sometimes sarcasm is the best weapon against stubbornness).

The delay in that restoration did however precipitate my discovery
of ChronoSync... something for which I am eternally grateful.

Thanks.

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Thursday, May 18 2006 @ 09:43 PM PDT

Ahhh... much better. - Hal Itosis

A shrunken build has been silently swapped in.
My work is done here. Hi-ho Silver... away. ;-)

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Thursday, May 18 2006 @ 06:48 AM PDT