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    I have read everything in the forums but I'm not finding the same situation as mine.  I set up mesh for p2p sync of My Documents between my laptop and netbook.  This worked just peachy for several months then one day the My Documents on the netbook was suddenly "no longer in the mesh".   Nothing I read or tried got it back in.  This was difficult because My Documents is 60GB.  So I setup a new p2p mesh, using my document son the laptop, new folder on the netbook and when all the folder structure was synced to the netbook, I copied the old my documents folders into the new structure on the netbook.  

    Well, we started a very long cycle of syncing at that point and after several days both machines ran out of disk space and the holding area was just a little less than 60GB, many files missing (yeah, I've seen all the postings on this).  But just what am I suppose to do to get out of this?  I was able to clean up 6GB on both machines but I neither instance of live mesh is reporting any conflicts?  Just what is the best way out at this point, punt, delete everything, restore the file structure from a backup and start a fresh?

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    Sunday, November 29, 2009 4:42 PM

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    I believe that you've answered your question in the last sentence.

    Here is what I'd do since you are dealing with two machines and lots of data, no Live Desktop for file storage....

    1. Go to the Live Desktop and remove both machines from the Mesh.
    2. Uninstall Live Mesh from both machines
    3. Cleanup the local files so that you no longer have duplicates and placeholder files.
    4. Cleanup the Live Mesh holding area - \Users\{userID}\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Live Mesh\GacBase\HoldingArea (Win7) in XP, I think that it will be: (don't have an XP machine handy!) \Documents and Settings\{userID}\Local Settings\Application Data\Microsoft\Live Mesh\GacBase\HoldingArea
    5. Download and install SyncToy and Sync the two PCs' Documents folder structure over the LAN - this preserves the date/time settings http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=c26efa36-98e0-4ee9-a7c5-98d0592d8c52
    6. Add both machines to the Mesh by installing Live Mesh on them.
    7. Select a source machine and add the folder to the Mesh, change the sync properties to not sync to the Live Desktop, of course.
    8. Accept the offered folder on the other machine and browse to the desired matching folder.

    Sit back and hope that you don't end up with conflicts when it proceeds. If it does, you'll need to manage the conflicts individually. The reason you ran out of space was that the Holding Area folder was filling up with conflicts that needed to be resolved.

    -steve
    ~ Microsoft MVP Windows Live ~ Windows Live OneCare| Live Mesh|MS Security Essentials Forums Moderator ~
    Tuesday, December 1, 2009 1:45 PM
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    I believe that you've answered your question in the last sentence.

    Here is what I'd do since you are dealing with two machines and lots of data, no Live Desktop for file storage....

    1. Go to the Live Desktop and remove both machines from the Mesh.
    2. Uninstall Live Mesh from both machines
    3. Cleanup the local files so that you no longer have duplicates and placeholder files.
    4. Cleanup the Live Mesh holding area - \Users\{userID}\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Live Mesh\GacBase\HoldingArea (Win7) in XP, I think that it will be: (don't have an XP machine handy!) \Documents and Settings\{userID}\Local Settings\Application Data\Microsoft\Live Mesh\GacBase\HoldingArea
    5. Download and install SyncToy and Sync the two PCs' Documents folder structure over the LAN - this preserves the date/time settings http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=c26efa36-98e0-4ee9-a7c5-98d0592d8c52
    6. Add both machines to the Mesh by installing Live Mesh on them.
    7. Select a source machine and add the folder to the Mesh, change the sync properties to not sync to the Live Desktop, of course.
    8. Accept the offered folder on the other machine and browse to the desired matching folder.

    Sit back and hope that you don't end up with conflicts when it proceeds. If it does, you'll need to manage the conflicts individually. The reason you ran out of space was that the Holding Area folder was filling up with conflicts that needed to be resolved.

    -steve
    ~ Microsoft MVP Windows Live ~ Windows Live OneCare| Live Mesh|MS Security Essentials Forums Moderator ~
    Tuesday, December 1, 2009 1:45 PM
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    Thank you Stephen, I did punt, deleted everything, reinstalled from a backup, reinstalled mesh, but took many folders out of my documents that seemed to be causing problems.   In particular, I took out folders with large media files. 

    No conflicts yet, fingers crossed....


    Wednesday, December 2, 2009 2:01 AM
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    Glad to read that it seems to be working okay for you now.

    -steve
    ~ Microsoft MVP Windows Live ~ Windows Live OneCare| Live Mesh|MS Security Essentials Forums Moderator ~
    Wednesday, December 2, 2009 1:05 PM
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