Just starting to play around with this. I do have a questions.
If someone has shared a deck but isn't online with it show up in the search?
Is there anyway to know when searching you are connected but the deck wasn't found? Right now when I did a search nothing showed up, so I wasn't sure if the deck wasn't found or if I wasn't connected.
That's it for now... will play more :o)
Shari
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Hi WebWeaver,
The way it SHOULD work is that when someone has their computer switched on, their decks are still available for sharing, whether the program is running or not. This is because the deck sharing is done by a Windows Service which always runs in the background).
If someone goes offline (i.e. turns their computer off) their decks should disappear from the list. If they don't, the first time someone requests one and the deck is not found, they should then be knocked off. All the decks that appear on the list you see should always be available.
HOWEVER at the moment something is going wrong. A couple of users have shared decks which now show up on the list, even though the decks are not available. You get an error when you try to get any of their decks. This isn't by design. I strongly suspect that what they have done is add decks to their share list, but then they decided to remove them. Instead of removing them using the user interface though, I think they might have physically moved or deleted files from the For Sharing folder. I am trying to confirm this with them right now.
Well, this is what testing is all about. In the next version of the program, which should be out this weekend, the For Sharing folder will be a hidden folder, and the program will take steps to verify if all the supposedly available files are still in place and haven't been deleted.
Hope this clarifies it :)
Richard
The way it SHOULD work is that when someone has their computer switched on, their decks are still available for sharing, whether the program is running or not. This is because the deck sharing is done by a Windows Service which always runs in the background).
If someone goes offline (i.e. turns their computer off) their decks should disappear from the list. If they don't, the first time someone requests one and the deck is not found, they should then be knocked off. All the decks that appear on the list you see should always be available.
HOWEVER at the moment something is going wrong. A couple of users have shared decks which now show up on the list, even though the decks are not available. You get an error when you try to get any of their decks. This isn't by design. I strongly suspect that what they have done is add decks to their share list, but then they decided to remove them. Instead of removing them using the user interface though, I think they might have physically moved or deleted files from the For Sharing folder. I am trying to confirm this with them right now.
Well, this is what testing is all about. In the next version of the program, which should be out this weekend, the For Sharing folder will be a hidden folder, and the program will take steps to verify if all the supposedly available files are still in place and haven't been deleted.
Hope this clarifies it :)
Richard
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P.S. Re the are you connect? question, if you can type in the box and press return you are connected. The box is disabled at other times.