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    Can anyone provide guidance on whether or not a Snow Leopard (OS 10.6) compatible version of the Mesh client will be forthcoming, and if so how soon can we expect it.  The announcement on Thursday night was very vague (and extremely last minute I might add).  I have become quite dependent on Live Mesh, but really want to upgrade to Snow Leopard so I can dump Entourage as my Exchange client.

    Thanks for your help
    Monday, August 31, 2009 4:53 AM

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    Unfortunately, the blog post announcement by the Live Mesh team is the only thing we know reagarding this. You're right, it did seem a bit last minute.
    -steve
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    Monday, August 31, 2009 12:17 PM
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    Unfortunately, the blog post announcement by the Live Mesh team is the only thing we know reagarding this. You're right, it did seem a bit last minute.
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    Monday, August 31, 2009 12:17 PM
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    Agreed, a better statement from Microsoft would be welcome.  The current post, as written, make it sound like they have no intention at all of supporting Snow Leopard.  I have upgraded my two Macs, so will have to make due with manual synchronization through Jungle Disk for now.  But it'd be really nice to see a new Mac update shortly!
    Monday, August 31, 2009 11:04 PM
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    Is there no further response from microsoft than that horrible, unclear posting?

    I cannot fathom the lack of snow leopard support; where I work we have been working with the developer seeds for a year now.

    You should be embarrassed at your inability to provide a working product.
    Tuesday, September 1, 2009 5:20 AM
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    Is there no further response from microsoft than that horrible, unclear posting?

    I cannot fathom the lack of snow leopard support; where I work we have been working with the developer seeds for a year now.

    You should be embarrassed at your inability to provide a working product.

    I understand the frustration you feel, but you must keep in mind that Live Mesh is a beta product. The major component of Live Mesh is the environment. The clients for Windows, Mobile and Mac are all in beta and all need work. I'm certain that we'll see updates to the service and the clients in the coming months - when, I don't know, but hope that it will be soon.

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    I'm hoping that the Mesh Team is listening, and working hard ot get this working again!  I've been relying on Mesh to sync my dev environment between Windows machines and my iMac ... and its been working great!

    Microsoft needs to get it's act in gear and remember that the public image of these failures do not look good for it's image.  Microsoft has got such incredible offerings ... but seems to be dropping the ball a lot lately where it could really matter.

    I've been bragging about how great Mesh is for the cross-platform sync ... and now this?  Uh ... I'm not sure I want to stick my neck out and talk about (and promote) their products if they are going to pull a stunt like this.  :-(

    They need to be in communications ... announce what they are going to do about it ... and get a fix out quickly.  Demonstrate the power and commitment they have to the users.

    This is what the social network era is about ...

    Mesh Team ... show us - and tell us -  what you can do!
    Tuesday, September 1, 2009 3:23 PM
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    I'm hoping that the Mesh Team is listening, and working hard ot get this working again!  I've been relying on Mesh to sync my dev environment between Windows machines and my iMac ... and its been working great!

    Microsoft needs to get it's act in gear and remember that the public image of these failures do not look good for it's image.  Microsoft has got such incredible offerings ... but seems to be dropping the ball a lot lately where it could really matter.

    I've been bragging about how great Mesh is for the cross-platform sync ... and now this?  Uh ... I'm not sure I want to stick my neck out and talk about (and promote) their products if they are going to pull a stunt like this.  :-(

    They need to be in communications ... announce what they are going to do about it ... and get a fix out quickly.  Demonstrate the power and commitment they have to the users.

    This is what the social network era is about ...

    Mesh Team ... show us - and tell us -  what you can do!
    Hope is a strong word.
    Regardless if they're listening or not - if there's no fix for Mesh on OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard by Thursday morning, I'm switching to MobileMe (or at least trying it).
    If Microsoft can't fix a bug like this in 4 days of a public major OS live release, it says a lot about their reliability.
    It will also have been proof for me that although nothing is perfect, its always better to stick with a native solution vs. another company's workaround.
    Thursday, September 3, 2009 3:59 AM
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    Bug?
    I'd call it a compatibility issue. OSX 10.6 broke something in the Live Mesh client (as well as quite a few other applications that run quite well on earlier versions of OSX, according to what I've been reading). The developers need to code and test before putting something out, so I certainly wouldn't be expecting an update very quickly.
    Furthermore, Live Mesh is a beta product - beta means that issues can occur and you are using the product and service at your own risk, while submitting feedback to the developers on issues discovered.
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    It seams to work on my system. I upgraded on Wednesday the 2nd, and I haven't really had any issues. Of course, I'd like to have "official" support, but I do think that since this is still in beta, that a little bit of a delay is ok. (Of course, this feels like a Google beta- taking forever to get out of beta into delta.) 
    Sunday, September 6, 2009 12:50 AM
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    It would be great to hear about ETA. Mesh is GREAT and FREE. MobileMe is not. However, I've come to rely on the functionality for sync between my Windows and Mac computers. If I can't have a fix within a week, I'll have to move to MobileMe.

    In all honesty, Snow Leopard has been announced and betas have been around for a while. I really would've expected more dynamism on updating for this. I understand it is a beta, though, but still.
    Sebastian
    Sunday, September 6, 2009 10:21 PM
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    Steve, I don't disagree with your comments.

    However, I would think that MS could've reacted to this one faster than they did (or rather, "faster than they seem to be doing").

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    Sunday, September 6, 2009 10:23 PM
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    Steve, I don't disagree with your comments.

    However, I would think that MS could've reacted to this one faster than they did (or rather, "faster than they seem to be doing").

    Sebastian
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    And I don't disagree with your assessment. :-) I also wonder why a new version was not ready, or why the announcement was so wishy-washy. For those of you using the new OSX, I can only hope that a new version of the Live Mesh client is in the pipeline to be released soon.
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    So there's currently no solution for users on Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard, as far as I'm understanding.

    Does Microsoft Plan on releasing a newer LiveMesh application which is friendlier with the security changes made in OS X Snow Leopard?
    Tuesday, September 8, 2009 8:08 PM
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    Yeah, this really put a hamper on our development and document sharing efforts. I'm giving them a couple of weeks to put a fix out, or else I'm going to switch to a free getopendropbox.com, which is essentially the same thing. I like the integration of Live mess much better than open drop box, but I need an working product :+(. Please fix it soon...
    Wednesday, September 9, 2009 12:31 AM
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    So there's currently no solution for users on Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard, as far as I'm understanding.

    Does Microsoft Plan on releasing a newer LiveMesh application which is friendlier with the security changes made in OS X Snow Leopard?

    To the best of my knowledge, yes. However, when is not known.
    -steve
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    FYI...last week I switched to SugarSync, and it has been working great.  It is multiplatform, and works great with Snow Leopard.  2 GB for free, or 30GB for $5 per month.  Web interface is really good, and you can share folders with others just like live mesh.  Our consulting practice had been using Live Mesh for keeping client files in sync across multiple laptops, so I hated to switch, but couldn't deal with the lack of availability.  The Exchange integration that Snow Leopard brings was more compelling than staying on Leopard just for Live Mesh.  

    I agree with others who point to many, many, many developer builds since last year's developer's conference, so the release of Snow Leopard was not a sudden thing.  As Beta testers, we are essentially providing a free service to Microsoft, in return for being allowed to use the product.  We submit bugs, contribute to the forum, etc.  I understand that the company might choose to go a different direction as a result of Beta testing, but it is a dis-service to Beta testers to let them know at 3am on the morning of the release of Snow Leopard that it is not compatible.  Oh, well.  Now I'm just venting.

    I really do think that Live Mesh could be a great addition to the Mac platform, especially if...

    *All of the features from the Windows client are added
    *The new Web versions of Office are integrated with the Live Mesh desktop
    *The option is made available to increase capacity from 5GB
    Wednesday, September 9, 2009 2:16 AM
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    Also look at www.getdropbox.com
    Works as easy as live mesh.

    the only thing that was much better in live mesh is sharing with other people and the related security (through live account)

    Tuesday, September 15, 2009 8:13 AM
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    I don't really understand the concern. Have you tried running Mesh on Snow Loepard? It has been working fine for me (except for one crash) since installing 10.6. What parts of Mesh are not working?
    Saturday, September 19, 2009 6:36 PM
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    When I launch the mesh client under Snow Leopard, I get the login window, but have never been able to successfully log in.  I get an error every time.
    Monday, September 21, 2009 9:09 PM
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    I have got Mesh partially working on Snow Leopard.
    I installed on Mesh and it initially complained that it could not add the device (i.e my mac) as I was not signed in. (I was signed in, but it did not think so).
    Eventually it worked.
    But I can only sync the folders/files that are already on my Live Desktop (having synced it from my Windows machine).
    In this sync'ed folder, I can make any edits/deletes/adds and it works fine. It uploads it to the Live Desktop.
    But I cannot add a new folder to the Mesh. The options "New Folder" & "Add Existing Folder" are grey'ed out.

    I wish Microsoft would update Mesh for SL. I have looked at other options: SugarSync, DropBox, ...
    But none of them offer peer-peer sync. I really love this feature as I want to sync my huge database of photos/videos/music.


    Sunday, September 27, 2009 1:44 AM
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    I was using Live Mesh with 10.5 but as soon as I upgraded to 10.6 it won't sync in.  No automatic or manual loading.  Would like to know what you did to get it to work.  My company uses it quite extensively to keep admin, finance and sales consultants up to date.
    Thanking you in advance 
    Wednesday, September 30, 2009 12:44 AM
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    It's definitely not working perfectly, but there wasn't much of a trick... I quit live mesh, restarted the computer, installed it, gave it access to the Mac key ring, then it worked.
    It seems to get unreliable after about a week. At that point, I have to restart the computer.
    Hope that's helpful!
    Monday, October 12, 2009 4:35 AM
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    So 10.6.1 fixed it? Somehow it's working again...... not sure what caused it but I have not tried playing with it since the initial failure after installing SL.

    I can sign in occasionally now.
    Wednesday, October 14, 2009 5:44 AM
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    The new version that came out today works well for me.
    Thanks Live Mesh team for fixing this!

    Now when can we have peer-peer sync with Mac?
    I would prefer to use Mesh (instead of my kludge) as it works very well between my 2 PCs.
    The other option I am thinking of using is to fire up my Win7 through VmWare and then use Mesh on it to do peer-peer sync.

    But thanks again for the fix.
    Tuesday, October 20, 2009 4:53 AM
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    For me the new version (0.9.4501.0) for Mac does still not work. The button keeps grey and wether sign in nor sign out does work. I uninstalled and installed again - but no success so far :/
    Tuesday, October 20, 2009 7:14 PM
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    For me the new version (0.9.4501.0) for Mac does still not work. The button keeps grey and wether sign in nor sign out does work. I uninstalled and installed again - but no success so far :/

    I can't be of much help without having a Mac, but I suspect that your uninstall/reinstall may have left something behind of the old version. Your best bet is to submit a bug report - 

    How to Submit Bugs and Live Mesh Logs

    Note that you probably won't get a response to the bug report, though. It will be transferred to the internal system to be assigned to the appropriate development group.

    -steve

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    For me the new version (0.9.4501.0) for Mac does still not work. The button keeps grey and wether sign in nor sign out does work. I uninstalled and installed again - but no success so far :/

    It could be a problem with your keychain. I uninstalled the old version and reinstalled the new one. I got some popups and Mesh did not start. So, I restarted Mesh a couple of times (each time getting a different popup about keychain) and then finally got the sign-in screen. After that no issues.
    Tuesday, October 20, 2009 8:44 PM
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    For me the new version (0.9.4501.0) for Mac does still not work. The button keeps grey and wether sign in nor sign out does work. I uninstalled and installed again - but no success so far :/

    It could be a problem with your keychain. I uninstalled the old version and reinstalled the new one. I got some popups and Mesh did not start. So, I restarted Mesh a couple of times (each time getting a different popup about keychain) and then finally got the sign-in screen. After that no issues.

    This is what happened for me, something with the keychain was preventing it from letting me sign in. I logged out and logged back in and then started mesh again, that ended up fixing it for me. Its working pretty well now.
    Tuesday, October 20, 2009 11:54 PM
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    I initially had the same problem when I installed the latest version. My solution was to:

    1) Quit the Live Mesh client.
    2) Delete the Live Mesh settings in Application Support (~\Library\Application Support\Live Mesh).
    3) Delete the Live Mesh preference (~\Library\Preferences\com.microsoft.LiveMesh.plist).
    4) Launch Live Mesh client, at which point it allowed me to login as though for the first time and re-select the folder I wanted in my mesh.

    Hope that helps.
    Saturday, October 24, 2009 8:49 PM
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    Sorry, but I have tried all the solutions I have found with no results : It still don't work !!! I also tried to create a new Live account without result.
    I try to install LM as a brand new user of iMac 27' (OS 10.6.1)...
    I found so comfortable to use LM on Vista...!!! It's now so hard to do without !
    If you find something, keep me informed.
    Thanx a lot by advance.
    Monday, October 26, 2009 10:33 PM
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    Sorry, but I have tried all the solutions I have found with no results : It still don't work !!! I also tried to create a new Live account without result.
    I try to install LM as a brand new user of iMac 27' (OS 10.6.1)...
    I found so comfortable to use LM on Vista...!!! It's now so hard to do without !
    If you find something, keep me informed.
    Thanx a lot by advance.

    I am quite certain that it should work on your new Intel iMac with OSX 10.6.1.
    What happens when you try to install and run Live Mesh?
    -steve
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    Tuesday, October 27, 2009 12:37 PM
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    I'm having the same problem as everyone else. It doesn't let you log in and I have deleted the preferences, libraries and keychain entries. Am I missing anything?
    Tuesday, October 27, 2009 10:15 PM
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    It sounds like you're doing what others reported as the solution. This is Snow Leopard, yes?
    -steve
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    Wednesday, October 28, 2009 1:32 AM
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    Thanks for your Tip(s). I just followed your steps and this has resolved the issue on my iMac w/ LiveMesh. Much appreciated! Thanks!!
    Thursday, October 29, 2009 1:50 AM
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    What happens when you try to install and run Live Mesh?
    -steve
    Hello and thank for asking...

    The problem is that NOTHING happens !!! After the downloading of LiveMesh.dmg, it opens, its icon is visible in the dock and then,... nothing.
    I have tried to wait a long time without any result.

    Help will be useful, thanks again.
    Thursday, October 29, 2009 8:11 PM
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    I don't have  a Mac or any experience with the Mac installer, but isn't a .dmg file the image? If the icon appears in the dock for Live Mesh, I would imagine that you need to click that to proceed and sign in. Are you able to bring up the client and get to settings or a sign in prompt?
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    Is anyone else having this problem? When I launch Live Mesh on my iMac (27", Snow Leopard) it doesn't offer me the option to sign in. And when I try choosing to do so from the pull-down menu, the option to sign in is gray and can't be selected.

    Thanks.
    Friday, October 30, 2009 3:53 PM
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    I'm going to merge your post into a long thread with some discussion on Live Mesh on Snow Leopard. Some of the later posts after the update was released may help you.
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    I'm going to merge your post into a long thread with some discussion on Live Mesh on Snow Leopard. Some of the later posts after the update was released may help you.
    -steve
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    Hi Stephen.

    For my sins I purchase my first ever mac (imac) on Thursday. It came with SL, and since then I have the same problem as a number of others with my beloved installation of Mesh! 

    Rather than moan about it and kick this rather nice looking screen, I thought id use my old beta testing obsession to try and get a resolution.

    What i have done:

    I have cleared out the various libraries related things as mentioned in the posts, I have even gone so far to remove all Microsoft references, inc office for mac, in a bit to see if there is some random conflict. I have deleted the enter app and started all over. Still, no luck.

    I have collected the logs, and happy to send them. Just let me know where. I see from the log there is some error message, but it is beyond my small brain to understand if it has any significance.

    What happens: 
    To surmise, i instal the app, i launch the app, and Live Mesh icon shows top right, and the menu options top left, but 'sign in' is greyed out, on both sides, and no sign of any sort of pop up menu when first launching.

    Im baffled from looking into the "package" that is the live mesh executable (or whatever mac people call it) as it says it was all created September the first. Are we sure this has been updated? Or that the correct version is being pulled from the web? I am dutifully informed that it is version 0.9.4501.0 according to the About box.


    Anyway, hope somebody reads this, and I can be told where to send the zip file of logs.......

    I look forward to a solution. Yes, there are others, but not as good as Mesh in my opinion.

    Best regards, William
    William
    Saturday, October 31, 2009 10:15 PM
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    Hi, William.
    Sorry to read that you and others are having problems with the Mac version on Snow Leopard. Strange about the version information... There's no sin in getting a Mac. :-) They are great computers.

    Bugs are filed on Connect with logs attached. Instructions here:
     

    How to Submit Bugs and Live Mesh Logs

    Note that you probably won't get a response to the bug report, though. It will be transferred to the internal system to be assigned to the appropriate development group.

    -steve

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    Saturday, October 31, 2009 11:39 PM
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    Thanks Steve.

    Im fairly sure weve communicated in the past on some program or other; you were always efficient. and i should know better to and look at Connect! ill go do that straight away.

    As for the iMac, i wanted something that looked ok and compact in a relatively small room; the plan is to bootcamp the whole thing, but for now..

    Ill report back if i get any feedback...


    Thanks, W

    [edit: confirm sent logs on connect!]
    William
    Saturday, October 31, 2009 11:46 PM
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    I do recognize the name, William. :-) Thanks.
    Do enjoy the new iMac, even if Live Mesh won't run on it at the moment!
    -steve
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    Hi, William.
    Sorry to read that you and others are having problems with the Mac version on Snow Leopard. Strange about the version information... There's no sin in getting a Mac. :-) They are great computers.

    Bugs are filed on Connect with logs attached. Instructions here:
     

    How to Submit Bugs and Live Mesh Logs

    Note that you probably won't get a response to the bug report, though. It will be transferred to the internal system to be assigned to the appropriate development group.

    -steve

    ~ Microsoft MVP Windows Live ~ Windows Live OneCare| Live Mesh|MS Security Essentials Forums Moderator ~

    I submitted mine last week, but am curious as to whether there's been any progress on your end? Is it possible some of us are receiving the old, non-Snow-Leopard, dmg file as suggested by William? It's getting quite long to manually upload all my changes from home to the Live Mesh Desktop! I teach college engineering and we've got lots of back and forth in our department which Mesh had been a savior for until recently. Would very much like any update you may have! For the record, I have also tried the steps mentioned above of deleting the Live Mesh prefs to no avail. And if it's of any help, it was literally one of the first things I tried to install when I unboxed my iMac last week, so I don't know that anything could be conflicting.

    Thanks to all the people looking into this,
    Greg
    Monday, November 2, 2009 6:06 AM
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    I'll see if I can get this looked into, Greg - the possibility that the older version is still being offered from some servers.
    -steve
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    Monday, November 2, 2009 1:46 PM
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    Thanks Steve.

    I'm glad (though i am sad for Greg) that I'm not the only one. I thought i was going mad...

    I forgot to mention:  someone suggests clearing out keychain reference - but i've looked, nothing from mesh.. i think that only happens once you've had the opportunity to enter credentials..

    If it makes any difference, i am currently situated in Belgium... if that changes servers etc..
    William
    Monday, November 2, 2009 2:12 PM
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    I sent off an email to my contact on the MSE team outin Redmond. One other possibility regarding the download of an older version is that the ISP is caching the download, though I find that pretty unlikely.
    -steve
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    Monday, November 2, 2009 3:47 PM
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    Thanks Stephen, I really appreciate your involvement. I am doubtful that we're being given an old version though. I was able to check the "About Live Mesh" (the only thing I'm unable to do is select "Sign In") and it tells me I have 0.9.4501.0 installed. This is the version mentioned in the Mesh blog posting about Snow Leopard support, so I do believe we have this Snow-Leopard supported version installed, and it simply isn't working.

    Happy to know I'm not the only one, and am anxiously awaiting a fix or workaround from someone smarter than me...

    Thanks again,
    Greg
    Tuesday, November 3, 2009 5:00 AM
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    Thanks Stephen, I really appreciate your involvement. I am doubtful that we're being given an old version though. I was able to check the "About Live Mesh" (the only thing I'm unable to do is select "Sign In") and it tells me I have 0.9.4501.0 installed. This is the version mentioned in the Mesh blog posting about Snow Leopard support, so I do believe we have this Snow-Leopard supported version installed, and it simply isn't working.

    Happy to know I'm not the only one, and am anxiously awaiting a fix or workaround from someone smarter than me...

    Thanks again,
    Greg
    Steve's a good guy! Hopefully with his help we'l get this working.

    I only noted that the Live Mesh package thing, when i open it it says everything was changed 01 September. So, was this when it was last updated? thats what i dont get. i

    I've discovered now  that i cant get Live Sync working either...... I unpack the zip file and then try and instal and then nothing happens.. Could these be related issues??? God, what a nightmare. Snow Leopard, for me at least, is worse than Vista was in terms of teething issues / compatibility ... Apple could as well pipe down the bashing on vista problems.

    [[EDiT just downloaded the very latest Live Sync version released today, or yesterday, and that now offers the log in. Still no go on Mesh. These issues jjust have to be related though..]]

    William
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    Tuesday, November 3, 2009 7:52 AM
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    I'm glad that you found that the new Live Sync version works for you. I saw the post last night, but haven't been to the Live Sync forum yet to see any reports of it working for the many people who were quite vocal when it broke!
    I also haven't heard back from my Live Mesh contact following my recent email.
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    Tuesday, November 3, 2009 1:16 PM
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    Thanks Stephen, I hope your friend is able to look into this matter for us as I am sorely missing my Mesh! On the positive side, I've never appreciated what a great utility it is as much as I do now (you don't know what you've got til its gone...)

    Thanks again, anxiously awaiting a fix :-)

    Greg
    Wednesday, November 4, 2009 5:48 AM
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    No update yet, other than an acknowledgement that my message was received and that he's look into the problem.
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    Wednesday, November 4, 2009 12:59 PM
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    Ok. Since he's looking into our original question of whether we're getting fed an "old" version of Live Mesh, perhaps you can let him know that this is not the case (see my previous post) and that we're just stuck unable to connect. What's worse is that using VMware as a workaround doesn't work since Live Mesh can't sync with Network folders (which is how VMware displays my Mac folders when accessed through Windows).

    Thanks again,
    Greg
    Wednesday, November 4, 2009 2:32 PM
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    I sent him a link to this thread, so he'll be looking here, too.
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    Wednesday, November 4, 2009 3:49 PM
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    FYI: I got the latest version of Mesh for Mac this morning and it is working with Snow Leopard. ( I have a Fall 2008 MacBook)

    Wednesday, November 4, 2009 4:31 PM
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    FYI: I got the latest version of Mesh for Mac this morning and it is working with Snow Leopard. ( I have a Fall 2008 MacBook)


    I'm wondering - Are all us folk with non functioning macs trying to use the new (October 09) iMac?? Could it be a bug with a custom version of OSX 10.6 ?
    William
    Wednesday, November 4, 2009 6:22 PM
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    I sent him a link to this thread, so he'll be looking here, too.
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    Thanks for keeping us up to date with your helpful posts, steve. Helps me not give up hope
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    FYI: I got the latest version of Mesh for Mac this morning and it is working with Snow Leopard. ( I have a Fall 2008 MacBook)


    I'm wondering - Are all us folk with non functioning macs trying to use the new (October 09) iMac?? Could it be a bug with a custom version of OSX 10.6 ?
    William
    I don't know. I'm using a fresh out of the box 27" iMac myself, and it is not working (as explained in previous posts).
    Thursday, November 5, 2009 2:53 AM
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    I sent him a link to this thread, so he'll be looking here, too.
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    Very much appreciated, thank you again Stephen.
    Thursday, November 5, 2009 2:54 AM
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    You're welcome. Interesting info that both of you are using brnad new machines - it may well be device specific....
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    Thursday, November 5, 2009 1:50 PM
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    You're welcome. Interesting info that both of you are using brnad new machines - it may well be device specific....
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    Whatever it is, I'm suffering!!! Just spent twenty minutes trying to manually sync some different files I modified and it was a nightmare. I have reverted to the dreaded USB stick solution for now, no fun!

    Thanks again for all your help,
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    Thursday, November 5, 2009 6:03 PM
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    FYI, I tried adding the following comment to their blog post, but I don't think it will appear and I don't know if the moderator will actually get it. Nonetheless, am truly realizing how much I depended on it!

    "I would like to advise you that this fix does not work on the new iMacs released two weeks ago. Browsing the forums, myself and other users (who have the new iMac) running Snow Leopard are unable to use Live Mesh. The ability to sign-in is not there.

    This is a major issue at the moment for me, as an engineer and professor, this tool has been indispensable and I actually waited for your Snow Leopard update before purchasing a new computer.

    Please advise if there's any fix in the works for this.

    Kind regards,
    Greg"
    Thursday, November 5, 2009 6:17 PM
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    While we await a reply on a possible cause and solution for this, have you looked at Live Sync? You'd want to make sure that you aren't synchronizing the same folder with Live Mesh and Live Sync on machines where both are installed, and Live Sync doesn't have a Live Desktop/Cloud solution, but it does P2P and they just released an update for Snow Leopard support, too. - http://sync.live.com
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    While we await a reply on a possible cause and solution for this, have you looked at Live Sync? You'd want to make sure that you aren't synchronizing the same folder with Live Mesh and Live Sync on machines where both are installed, and Live Sync doesn't have a Live Desktop/Cloud solution, but it does P2P and they just released an update for Snow Leopard support, too. - http://sync.live.com
    -steve
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    Yes, I definitely looked into that (and several other options!) but unfortunately Live Sync doesn't offer the web-access to my data in the cloud, which was practical (and an extra security blanket). Thanks for thinking of that though :-)
    Thursday, November 5, 2009 10:03 PM
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    Well, I've given up and switched to Dropbox for now. I still would prefer using Live Mesh but alas I cannot for the reasons explained here and in the bug report and logs I submitted. Hopefully it will be fixed soon (before I start liking Dropbox too much, it's quite impressive...)

    Thanks again for everything,
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    Friday, November 6, 2009 10:31 PM
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    Well, I've given up and switched to Dropbox for now. I still would prefer using Live Mesh but alas I cannot for the reasons explained here and in the bug report and logs I submitted. Hopefully it will be fixed soon (before I start liking Dropbox too much, it's quite impressive...)

    Thanks again for everything,
    Greg

    You're welcome. I've heard good things about Dropbox, so if it meets your needs, go for it. Live Mesh is a beta, after all. Check back for updates and perhaps Live Mesh will be better for you later.
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    Thanks, I am indeed very impressed with Dropbox. The one feature that Live Mesh had that this doesn't was to seamlessly connect to my remote PCs as well, so I look forward to the Snow Leopard fix for new iMacs.

    Thanks again,
    Greg
    Wednesday, November 11, 2009 3:12 PM
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    Any news per chance?

    I've updated the mamoth (600mb) update Apple provided for 10.6 the other day - seems to change nothing with regards to Mesh :(

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    Friday, November 13, 2009 3:37 PM
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    Any news per chance?

    I've updated the mamoth (600mb) update Apple provided for 10.6 the other day - seems to change nothing with regards to Mesh :(

    William

    Nothing new, William. If it turns out that the latest version still has problems with the latest hardware running Snow Leopard, I'm afraid that you won't likely see any updates on the Live Mesh side again until the next major beta release rumored to be part of Wave 4 for Windows Live in early 2010 or so.
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    Really unfortunate, but thanks for the update Stephen.

    William, if you haven't tried it yet, Dropbox has swept me off my feet. And the iPhone app (if applicable for you) has already been extremely useful on a few occasions. Full access to all my files from my pocket, quite practical.
    Saturday, November 14, 2009 11:44 PM
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    I had a great deal of trouble getting Mesh to work on SL with a mid-2009 macbook pro - I was having the greyed-out icon issue and console would show "Mesh has connected to Moe" and then would just stop.  For me, if I quit Mesh from the dropdown menu, then wait a minute or two, and restart the Mesh client, it almost always works.  Occasionally I have to start it a 3rd time.  I've also found that not having it open on login but opening it manually helps it work more consistently. Since I usually just sleep my mbp and not shutdown, it's been pretty reliable.
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    Nothing new, William. If it turns out that the latest version still has problems with the latest hardware running Snow Leopard, I'm afraid that you won't likely see any updates on the Live Mesh side again until the next major beta release rumored to be part of Wave 4 for Windows Live in early 2010 or so.

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    I'm having issues as well with brand new hardware. It worked just fine in the same version of Snow Leopard on my older MacBook Pro. My issue is slightly different. I can attempt to login. The Sign in menu item is operational, but every time it tells me my credentials are incorrect. I'm not trying to save anything in the Keychain at this point and I tried it on a new osx user. Same problem.

    Jeff
    Saturday, January 2, 2010 5:47 PM
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    Have you tried removing Live Mesh completely and reinstalling it, Jeff?
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    Hi all

    Just want to say that I run Mesh on both a Windows Vista PC and a Mac Snow Leopard - and it works perfect with the Mac - even so good that I perfer to work on the Mac (and I am not a Mac idealist!). I like the way you post news on the Mac - it is better!
    Tuesday, January 26, 2010 7:33 PM
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    Hi all

    Just want to say that I run Mesh on both a Windows Vista PC and a Mac Snow Leopard - and it works perfect with the Mac - even so good that I perfer to work on the Mac (and I am not a Mac idealist!). I like the way you post news on the Mac - it is better!

    Glad to read that. I don't have a Mac that I can see how Live Mesh works on... ;-)
    -steve
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    Tuesday, January 26, 2010 7:40 PM
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