Comments on: FAQ

By: Frank

Frank — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 22:02:07 +0000

I’d love to see some more and larger screenshots before installing. Thanks.

By: johannes

johannes — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 09:21:31 +0000

@pgs: Create another jabber account for the other person/computer. It is free and done within seconds. You can even do it within Jake.

@Lee: You can check the checkbox so that it fetches files automatically ones they become known. Or you could try the “JakeCommander”. It is a console tool to access the project that was especially useful for debugging. Could need some hacking to adapt to your needs. Otherwise maybe sitecopy or rsync can help.

By: Lee

Lee — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 22:03:59 +0000

Question – could you use this to update a file on a server based in the same office as well as a file on a different pc/mac and a copy onto a FTP server?
I use fling for part of this process, but need to keep the files updated over 3 pc’s and 2 mac’s as well as a copy to the ftp and this appears to be a more versatile solution
Thanks

By: bitsenbloc » Blog Archive » Jake: sincronització sense servidor central

Sun, 28 Jun 2009 17:52:42 +0000

[...] o el Google Talk) per comunicar la informació entre usuaris. Malauradament el projecte encara està una mica verd, però promet molt. Jake és programari [...]

By: pqs

pqs — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 17:47:08 +0000

I don’t know, but many people would like to sync two different computers belonging to the same person.

In fact, what I like from jake is that it does not need a server to store the data. That’s its best feature.

Now I use Dropbox to sync stuff like linux config files, documents, etc., and I’d like to change it to Jake, as I don’t want my data to be in Amazons S3 or any other cloud service.

Dropbox allows to sync data of one user between several computers (office and home, for example), and to sync folders between different users (me and my wife).

Jake would be much more useful if it could do both things. Now it only allows me to sync one project from one of my computers with my wife.

But I don’t know how this should be done. I’m a user, not a programmer. I’m sorry.

By: johannes

johannes — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 17:32:59 +0000

Hmm … probably not with the same project. But you can use the same account for multiple projects (one XMPP resource is used per project). Otherwise, how would you address computer A or computer B if they completely look the same?

By: pqs

pqs — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 15:50:57 +0000

Another question.

Is it possible to sync two different computers using the very same xmpp account? This is, a project with only one collaborator, synced between two computers.

By: johannes

johannes — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 14:37:48 +0000

@Andy, pgs: thanks. Updated it.

By: pqs

pqs — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 13:37:42 +0000

If I have Jake open with my usual XMPP account, for example, Google Talk, people will see me as if I were online? What happens if the chat with me? I won’t notice form jake! Can’t this pose some problems?

By: Andy Yates

Andy Yates — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 09:12:53 +0000

Hi Johannes

In the FAQ, the word ‘wether’ should be ‘whether’.