I have reviewed the posts that are on this forum that may be related to this issue. It appears that Mesh is
highly unstable for some folks, and I appear to be one of them. I'll be uninstalling Mesh very soon so if you want some additional information on my system, please contact me
very soon.
Background
- 2 computers, 'Therm' and 'Kyle' - both XP. 1 vista laptop, 1 XP laptop. Mesh on all
- Sharing 3 folders, 'Documents - Pete', 'Documents - Maryellen' and 'AXIOM'
- All shared folders were originally shared from c:\data\
The folder AXIOM is where I can clearly pinpoint the problem so we'll talk about it
- News reports are very erratic. I do very little work in the folders, but Mesh claims that I have 'Added 6,563 files', 'Updated 72 pictures', 'deleted 1,962 pictures', and 'deleted 6,890 files'. There were a dozen other reports like this. All of this was last night while I was at the movies. Nice trick. These odd reports have been going on since I installed a week ago, and I foolishly ignored them, assuming them to be Mesh housekeeping.
- I should have over 9,000 files in the AXIOM folder. I now have 113. I believe that I have backups of everything but this eliminates any sense of security.
This is easily reproducible, and takes less than 90 seconds.
- I just add a file into C:\data\AXIOM\_axiom\New AXIOM Work. I see a new News report saying that I had added the file. Within 30 seconds it is gone. The folder remains, but the file is removed. There is no News report saying that the file had been removed.
- Shutting down Mesh and adding the file back is fine - 15 minutes later, it is still there. 90 seconds after launching Mesh (I am assuming that it is doing housekeeping for the first 60 seconds), the file is gone again.
- When I look at the Mesh 'Live Desktop', it appears that all my data is up there (I think that all of the data is there. It is a little hard to confirm the presence of 9,000 files on Live Desktop) However, without the new folder 'New AXIOM Work' and without my new file.
- I have repeated this numerous times (to eliminate any other rogue software) and it is clearly Mesh.
If you respond quickly I can provide additional information. I would like to remove this software as quickly as possible because of the obvious danger. I can remote desktop, VNC, GoToMyDesktop, etc. Please contact me at my email address below. You are welcome to post here as well, but I monitor my email much more closely.
Regards,
Pete
paustin@worldedi.com
Pete
