[Tado]

Hey, OmniFocus for Mac is there a way to change the sync settings from every 1 hour to every 5mins ?

[markd]

I have the same issue. I have both my iphone and Mac syncing through my server (mac mini). But I can't find any option to automatically sync when I shut down Omnifocus on my Mac.
I assume if I shut down my Mac half-way between the default hourly sync, then that info won't appear on my phone until I reboot the Mac again and it gets a chance to sync.
I assume there is a way to set the sync intervals, but being fairly new to Omni, think I am missing something quite simple.
Any help is appreciated.

[CatOne]

OmniFocus always syncs on quit when there are unsaved changes. I see a dialog box most every time I quit OmniFocus on the Mac, noting it's syncing changes.

[Lizard]

OmniFocus syncs every hour whether it has changes to sync or not. OmniFocus will also sync within about 2 minutes after you make changes. And as CatOne mentioned, it will also sync on quit if it has any unsynced changes.

So to have changes not get synced, you'd have to make the changes and then quickly force-quit OmniFocus, or quit and then choose to cancel its sync-on-quit. In other words, you'd have to be trying to block the changes getting to your iPhone.

(All of this assumes your Mac has internet access of course!)

[PatrickR]

I am sorry but I have to bump the topic because it is an important issue.

I understand that if I change an object on my iPhone it is pushed to the server immediately. Unfortunately, my Mac version of OminiFocus will notice this change after 1 hour (worst case) if I don't manually sync or restart the application.

Therefore the 1 hour fixed sync interval is a serious issue.

Is there some (hidden) way to change it? Otherwise I suggest adding it to as a high priority feature request.

PatrickR

[whpalmer4]

In practice, it's much less of an issue than you might think. As soon as you do something on the Mac, the iPhone change(s) will be pulled over, if the periodic sync hasn't already done so. So, if you are only working on one sequential project, you might not see the proper next action unless you tap the sync button, but as it turns out, it's a good idea (for performance reasons) to do a sync when you switch to a different device, which eliminates the issue.

If you are determined that you need to twiddle the parameters, see this post: http://forums.omnigroup.com/showpost...34&postcount=2

[PatrickR]

@whpalmer4:

Thank you for your reply. To be honest the issue was getting very annoying to me but maybe our use cases differ.

Unfortunately the linked options do not work for me even after several restarts of OmniFocus and manually syncing the next sync time in the preferences shows exactly one hour in the future as next sync time. Is there maybe a restriction to limit the load of the OmniSync server? I used value 600 (=10 minutes).

Patrick