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Before you start a file collaboration session for the first time, you need to decide how you would like the initial synchronization to be performed. There are basically two main options:
| 1. | Have the File Collaboration Session FolderMaestro perform the initial synchronization based on the configured File Conflict Resolver strategy. |
| 2. | Pre-Seed all participating hosts with the correct folder and file hierarchy for the configured Root Folders before starting the Applet. |
If you have a large data set, we strongly recommend that you perform the initial synchronization manually by copying the data from a host with the most current copy to all other participating hosts. This will only need to be done the first time that you run the File Collaboration Session FolderMaestro.
After you have chose an option, press the Start button to begin collaboration session initialization.
| 1. | All participating hosts are contacted to make sure they are online and properly configured. |
| 2. | Realtime event detection is initialized on all participating hosts where file locks and changes will be propagated in real-time to all participating hosts. You can view real-time activity and history via the various Runtime Views. |
| 3. | The initial synchronization process is started and all of the configured Root Folders on the participating hosts are scanned in the background, and the contents of all folders and files are sent back to the Applet. |
| 4. | The background directory scan results are analyzed and directory structures compared to see which files are missing from which hosts. In addition, file conflict resolution is performed to decide which copy to use as the master based on the configured File Conflict Resolver settings for any detected file conflicts. |
| 5. | After the analysis is performed all files that need to by synchronized are copied to the pertinent host(s). |
You can stop a file collaboration session at any time by pressing the Stop button. Doing this will shutdown the real-time file event detection and the File Collaboration Applet will wait for all currently running task to complete before shutting down e.g. file transfers in progress, etc.
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