LBRAGG,
The sync is far more reliable now than it used to be, but I've still had a broken TreeSync after the latest patch was released. When that happens, you can potentially lose work done in FTM or at Ancestry.com. Until it actually syncs everything, there is no workaround for that.
I'm in a real bind myself. My AMT is a collaborative tree that I do with other people, and untold hours have been spent creating member-connections. There are also nearly 200 people invited to the tree. Many of them aren't very computer literate, and it was very difficult to get them connected in the first place. The tree is also the source of thousands of media items that others have copied. For these and other reasons, my tree at Ancestry.com is my primary tree. When the TreeSync breaks, I have to download it again from Ancestry.com.
When that happens, I lose so much time and work in FTM that it drives me nuts. Here are a few examples:
- all media categories are gone. If you have a lot of media that you've tried to categorize, then you know there is a major performance bug that makes this nearly undoable unless you have a LOT of time
- all non-synchronized media edits are gone. Any changes you made to the media files (like renaming, cropping, adjustment layers, etc.) are lost. Any formatting used in the description field for media will be lost. Anything you did for citation media is gone: custom names, dates, descriptions, notes. All gone.
- formatting of citation text is lost
- custom and saved reports are lost
- tasks are lost. I currently have more than 1000 of them, all categorized. Those task-categories are lost too.
- work in the Places workspace is lost: ignored places, custom locations
- all notes except for person notes are lost: research notes, fact notes, media notes, source notes, etc.
The sync is far more reliable now than it used to be, but I've still had a broken TreeSync after the latest patch was released. When that happens, you can potentially lose work done in FTM or at Ancestry.com. Until it actually syncs everything, there is no workaround for that.
I'm in a real bind myself. My AMT is a collaborative tree that I do with other people, and untold hours have been spent creating member-connections. There are also nearly 200 people invited to the tree. Many of them aren't very computer literate, and it was very difficult to get them connected in the first place. The tree is also the source of thousands of media items that others have copied. For these and other reasons, my tree at Ancestry.com is my primary tree. When the TreeSync breaks, I have to download it again from Ancestry.com.
When that happens, I lose so much time and work in FTM that it drives me nuts. Here are a few examples:
- all media categories are gone. If you have a lot of media that you've tried to categorize, then you know there is a major performance bug that makes this nearly undoable unless you have a LOT of time
- all non-synchronized media edits are gone. Any changes you made to the media files (like renaming, cropping, adjustment layers, etc.) are lost. Any formatting used in the description field for media will be lost. Anything you did for citation media is gone: custom names, dates, descriptions, notes. All gone.
- formatting of citation text is lost
- custom and saved reports are lost
- tasks are lost. I currently have more than 1000 of them, all categorized. Those task-categories are lost too.
- work in the Places workspace is lost: ignored places, custom locations
- all notes except for person notes are lost: research notes, fact notes, media notes, source notes, etc.