bareges wrote:Syncing takes a minute or two unlike poor old MITG that struggled badly.
I believe Good Sync will sync on file level only (though their plans were to go further, I don't know whether there were any changes recently), while MITG was syncing on a record level, so what for GoodSync is one item (file), for MITG is thousands of items (or as much as you have messages stored in that particular folder). That certainly takes a lot more time (time spent on accessing individual records, on trying to find their counterpart in the other database and all the syncing logic).
blakelyg wrote:Just wanted to clarify (moot point given the status of MITG). MITG will not install on a USB external drive, but it will run from a USB Hard drive. I installed my version on a USB flash drive, then copied the whole folder over to the external hard drive. Works beautifully (OK with the limitations outlined in the forum).
Good find. Though I couldn't replicate it with my drive. It might be dependent on the type of the drive - it's possible that it might work on some types of external hard drives.
blakelyg wrote:That is a great option (PortableApps), especially given that they are in the process of updating to a new version. I know you probably have limited information but would that be with the new version (under development) of Poco/Barca or the current versions (assuming that is the solution decided on)?
I can only offer my own personal guess: I'd not be surprised if the update was bug-fixing mostly. But I have no information about that (the only information I have on update is that it was planned to happen few months ago, from that I take it's fairly possible it will happen, but I can't promise that update will happen for 100%).
I don't know much about PortableApps myself, hopefully I'll be able to get to it and study the development related details soon, currently I'm only aware that such possibility exists. If I can anticipate, Slaven might make decision on which way to go largely based a] which will be easiest to implement b] generic enough (ie. independent on other technologies, another factor will be to have as little standalone product lines to maintain as possible (eg. it's better option to have one all-in-one product, than to have one for desktop, one for U3, one for flash drive and one external hard drive install - to take it to extreme just for explanation purposes).