[tomboy-list] "Server is locked" and Little sync disaster

[Josep M]

A while ago I sent a message asking about the possibility of using 
Dropbox to sync notes across different computers. I was warned of the 
dangers of doing it and now I'm suffering the consequences of not 
following that sound piece of advice.

The thing is, I had two laptops connected to the net at the same time 
but I was not using Tomboy in both of them at the same time. All I did 
was to try to synchronize the contents of the Dropbox folder where I had 
saved a copy of the Tomboy notes (by synchronizing the notes with that 
folder in my main computer). I thought that as long as I didn't try to 
modify a note from the two different computers at the same time, I 
wouldn't have a problem. But the synchronization process went array and 
Tomboy hung in the middle of the synchronization without finishing. I 
was not aware of this, but Dropbox deleted the contents that had not 
been synchronized from the Dropbox subfolder where I kept my Tomboy 
notes in the second computer. What I think happened is the following: I 
restarted Tomboy and tried to sync again; Tomboy had imported some of 
the files in the synchronization attempt but not all of them; the 
synchronization copied the files it considered more recent to the sync 
folder and deleted the ones that had not been imported in the first 
synchronization attempt?

Anyway, I will probably never know what really happened, but to make the 
story short  I went back to my first computer and continued to work with 
Tomboy, then when I clicked on synchronization I realized there were a 
bunch of notes (and a lot of hours of work) that had disappeared.

I was now trying to recover the notes by attempting to restore deleted 
contents in Dropbox via the web interface but when I try to sync with 
the Dropbox folder I continuously get a message that says "Server is 
locked. One of your other computers is currently synchronizing. Please 
wait 2 minutes and try again". But I have only one computer on. I have 
even disabled Dropbox. So, I don't know what the problem is.

Besides helping me solve this problem, if there is anybody that has 
found a good system to synchronize notes between different computers, I 
would appreciate hearing from him/her. I work with three different 
computers and finding a good synchronization system is essential for me.

Thanks a lot in advance.

Josep M.