[softwarelist] Re: SyncDiscs Problem

In message <4eff49eee8bric@xxxxxxx>, Brian Carroll <bric@xxxxxxx> writes

I have used SyncDiscs for a daily backup of a few important
completing it stopped with an error 'SyncDiscs has suffered an
Hard to say. Over the years people have reported crashes, however they have not been reproducible - I assume that if the layout of directories and files is just right then they trigger a bug in SyncDiscs.
Working on that theory, you may find that any change makes the problem go away, for example adding a file, or removing one, perhaps changing the size of the wimp slot in the !Run file.
Of course there may be other possible causes, for example the file system might be crashing.
I would be inclined to enable the log file in SyncDiscs and see if you can discover when it crashes - although that may not be much help because when the program crashes not all the data written to the log file will have been written to disc.
Now if I could get around to making my RISC OS desktop library available, I could also open source SyncDiscs and someone could sort it out... 



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