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zakuska 2008-12-28 03:32 PM

Keychain problem causes "too many open files" error
 
Hello,

My desktop OF has not synced with MobileMe for about 30 hours. The orange sync icon continues to turn with an exclamation point in the center of the two turning arrows. I had trouble getting this to work in the past and I just changed the OmniFocus.ofocus to old_OmniFocus.ofocus (thanks to a suggestion on this forum). But unfortunately it didn't help this time.

I also did a reset of the Syncing properties and then did another sync. I saw that it created another OmniFocus.ofocus sync file on iDisk, but the OF Sync properties menu said that the sync failed.

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

I am syncing via Bonjour in the meantime.

Thanks,
Adam

whpalmer4 2008-12-28 04:55 PM

[QUOTE=zakuska;52863]Hello,

My desktop OF has not synced with MobileMe for about 30 hours. The orange sync icon continues to turn with an exclamation point in the center of the two turning arrows. I had trouble getting this to work in the past and I just changed the OmniFocus.ofocus to old_OmniFocus.ofocus (thanks to a suggestion on this forum). It didn't help this time.

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated?

Thanks,
Adam[/QUOTE]

Click on the exclamation point to pop up an error notification describing what went wrong.

zakuska 2008-12-28 05:33 PM

[QUOTE=whpalmer4;52865]Click on the exclamation point to pop up an error notification describing what went wrong.[/QUOTE]
I clicked on the exclamation point and it showed me a dialogue box with the message:

[B]Unable to synchronize database with server.
Operation could not be completed. Too many open files[/B]

Is this saying I have to many items in my OF program?

zakuska 2008-12-28 07:58 PM

I found another post on the OmniGroup forum that is probably related to this.

[url]http://forums.omnigroup.com/showthread.php?t=9973[/url]

In this thread, one of the members posted this information that is from the Troubleshooting Common Issues page.

[url]http://www.omnigroup.com/applications/omnifocus/support/troubleshooting/[/url]

[QUOTE]If your database is too big, it will be too large to fit in the iPhone's memory. If you are also using OmniFocus on a Macintosh (the most likely way to encounter this problem), consider archiving some of your data by choosing "Move Old Data to Archive" from the File menu. In general, we recommend trying to keep the number of actions on your phone down below a thousand.[/QUOTE]

I have 722 actions, so this could be the problem. I don't have 1,000 actions, but I'm thinking that I have copied some larger files into the comments fields.

I will see if I can pare this down. I have been using OF also as a list manager since nothing like OmniOutliner is available yet.

I really appreciate your help. I will check back to see if there are any more suggestions.

Adam

zakuska 2008-12-28 09:22 PM

I just found out that I have TWO databases. I have OmniFocusDatabase and OmniFocusDatabase2. The second database was created about an hour after the last sync with MobileMe, Saturday at 8:19am. Since then I have not been able to sync.

I found the two databases at my HomeFolder/Library/Caches/com.omnigroup.OmniFocus

Would it just try to sync with the last created database? Am I supposed to delete one?

I appreciate any insight anyone can give.

Adam

whpalmer4 2008-12-28 10:28 PM

The OmniFocusDatabase2 in the Cache directory is a cache of your data for faster access. It will be replaced if you use the File->Rebuild Database command.

whpalmer4 2008-12-28 10:33 PM

[QUOTE=zakuska;52866]I clicked on the exclamation point and it showed me a dialogue box with the message:

[B]Unable to synchronize database with server.
Operation could not be completed. Too many open files[/B]

Is this saying I have to many items in my OF program?[/QUOTE]
No, this is a message from the operating system stating that you've got too many files open and no more can be opened (which is a problem when you go to sync, as the network access is done through a file access). Use Keychain Access to see if you might have multiple entries for me.com, as seen [URL="http://forums.omnigroup.com/showthread.php?t=10426&highlight=open+files"]here.[/URL]

zakuska 2008-12-28 11:34 PM

[QUOTE=whpalmer4;52873]No, this is a message from the operating system stating that you've got too many files open and no more can be opened (which is a problem when you go to sync, as the network access is done through a file access). Use Keychain Access to see if you might have multiple entries for me.com, as seen [URL="http://forums.omnigroup.com/showthread.php?t=10426&highlight=open+files"]here.[/URL][/QUOTE]
I'm looking in my Keychain under "All Items" and I only see one thing that says "idisk.me.com (emailname@mac.com). That is under "Name." It says it's an "Internet Password" under the heading "Kind", and it's a "login" under the heading "Keychain".

And now I've really messed things up because my OF application won't display anymore after I must have made an error in trying to figure out this syncing issue. But that's now on a different thread.

But it looks like I only have one entry for me.com.

SpiralOcean 2008-12-30 03:25 AM

The smooshing script has done wonders for me.

My syncing slows down after about a month of use. Running the smooshing script dramatically improves the syncing. From sync times of 5 to 10 minutes down to under a minute.

[url]http://forums.omnigroup.com/showpost...87&postcount=1[/url]

Andrew 2008-12-30 01:39 PM

Too Many Open Files can be caused by any number of problems, but assuming that it's a sporadic or one-time thing, rebooting should recover.


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