Have a meshed folder. Subfolder inside of it is renamed from "Test" to "Foo". There's no news update for that. It is replicated to the Live Desktop correctly.
Adding a new folder named "Bar" syncs and posts news as expected.
The LD News view shows dates. Very useful. The local client only shows "Earlier" and a time stamp. Confused me for a few seconds how a folder was added 4 minutes into the future and then deleted and readded 5 minutes in the future. :) It happened (almost exactly) 2 days ago. I like the format on LD better. The watermarked date isn't Information Overload, but still doesn't get ignored.
Also, running FileMon real quick, I noticed that Moe's opening the directory and scanning/polling the files in it for changes. This keeps updating the "last accessed time" on the file. Is this choice for cross-platform portability? On NTFS volumes, wouldn't the USN Journal be a more reliable, faster, less-intrusive way to get these status updates?
The Live Mesh News is something we're working hard to improve, as right now the user experience is less than ideal, as you note.
In reponse to your second question: You are correct that the current behavior is for cross-NTFS/FAT32 support. In the future, however, we do want to use the NTFS journal.
Thanks,
Ben.
Marked as answer byBen [Live Mesh]Wednesday, June 4, 2008 6:48 PM
