SyncToy can't work

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I've tried to use SyncToy, but failed. I use Win XP sp2, have installed the
firmware ver 1.1.
When running SyncToy preview, it will prompt a massage box:
Exception during preview: Value was either too large or too small for an
unsigned byte.
 
Hi,

I get this message too! But I feature out that it only happens when I try to
sync 2 WinXP SP2 Home machines. XP pro Sp2 & XP home Sp2 works and two Xp pro
Sp2 machines also work.
Any solutions or suggestions what might be wrong or missing?
 
xicity said:
I've tried to use SyncToy, but failed. I use Win XP sp2, have installed the
firmware ver 1.1.
When running SyncToy preview, it will prompt a massage box:
Exception during preview: Value was either too large or too small for an
unsigned byte.
Click to expand...

That means that some number stored in an unsigned byte has
either gone negative or has exceeded 127.

It sounds like some (very small) size limit has been exceeded.

-michael

Music synthesis for 8-bit Apple II's!
Home page: http://members.aol.com/MJMahon/

"The wastebasket is our most important design
tool--and it is seriously underused."
 
Hi Michael,

thanks for the reply.
Actually, what I tried to do was syncing Outlook 2003 pst-files on two XP
Home SP2
machines. The pst-file is a rough 56MB in size. On the other side, the two
XP Pro SP2 machines I usually sync, the pst-file is about 160MB big, and
transfers without any problems. Are there any limits in the file size, or is
this an OS related problem?
 
Floodguy said:
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Hi Michael,

thanks for the reply.
Actually, what I tried to do was syncing Outlook 2003 pst-files on two XP
Home SP2
machines. The pst-file is a rough 56MB in size. On the other side, the two
XP Pro SP2 machines I usually sync, the pst-file is about 160MB big, and
transfers without any problems. Are there any limits in the file size, or is
this an OS related problem?
Click to expand...

I wouldn't suspect file size limitations (but who knows?), but
rather limits on the size of some list or pathname that is being
constructed by the program.

Any chance you have a filename or pathname that is >127 characters
long? Does anyone else have any info on this?

As I noted elsewhere, SyncToy seems appropriately named--a little
kludge that someone built for his own use and never tested properly
for a wide range of applications. ;-(

-michael

Music synthesis for 8-bit Apple II's!
Home page: http://members.aol.com/MJMahon/

"The wastebasket is our most important design
tool--and it is seriously underused."
 
Hello!

I get this message, too. In my case, it only occurs when I try to echo a
subfolder of My Favorites from the left to the right . The left is a XP SP2
Pro and the right are either a XP SP2 Pro or a Samba server. SyncToy analyzed
several .url files in the folder, then the message box appears. Once the
message box appeared, SyncToy cannot stop normally. I have to terminate it
from Task Manager.
 
I have the same problem with left XP Pro and right W2K.
the program worked just fine for couple of months, then, started giving the
error message and stopped working.
checked if the error message is sensitive to path names (too long?), doesn't
seem that way, the program gets "stuck" on short names while processing ok
the long ones.

seems to me that some update (one of the automatic) to the .net environment
triggered that behaviour.

pity, the tool was very convenient to me.
 
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