Chorus Sync uses the idea of Folder Shares to make the same files and folders available to different users. If you have not used Folder Shares before, please see: C7.2 Sharing a folder.
The Chorus Sync UI
Taskbar Window
The main window shows you what is going on in the syncer and has a few useful controls.
- Open the Sync folder (The folder in your Private Space in your Chorus Site in your Private Space)
- Open the Chorus folder (The folder being synchronised on your Mac or PC)
- A list showing what the last sync operations of files in a folder in Chorus to a folder on your PC or Mac. We refer to sending when they go from PC to Chorus and receiving when they go from Chorus to PC.
- What Chorus Sync is doing and the progress of the any batch being synced
- Which direction the files were synced (send or receive)
- The sync status of each file—usually a tick showing that the file has been successfully synced, a circle showing sync progress or, occasionally, an error
- Open the app menu
- Notifications preference: One click for silent, two clicks for off.
Menu
There are a just few controls in the menu.
The current version number
Show the sync errors window
Open this help window
Quit the app
Pause syncing
Choose whether to automatically start Chorus Sync on Mac/PC login
Create a file to send to Third Light support (see [Preparing a Support ZIP file)](https://www.thirdlight.com/docs/display/CDD/Installing+and+configuring+Chorus+Sync) usually only necessary if you have experienced a bug or a crashCommon Scenarios
Files and folders that only you can see and edit
Using Chorus Sync with files and folders that someone shared with you in Chorus
Making a shared folder that multiple users can edit
Making a shared folder that is read-only for some users
If two people edit the same time, it will result in two revisions with different content in them. There is no way for Chorus to merge files, especially in view of the many complex and proprietary file formats that might be involved, so we have to leave it up to you and your team member to fix it.
We recommend you download each revision and manually merge the two changes. If one of the change was minor, it could be re-done.
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