Edits don’t get synced if I close the app too quickly (bug)

[Erica]

@gostobsec

Yes, when I close a browser window it does give that warning if a sync hasn’t finished, and I find that very helpful. I guess this issue only applies to the apps (Windows, Android, and (last time I checked) iOS).

Hmm, maybe we should get a feature request to port the same warning to desktop app? Browser has this warning pretty much built in, as you probably have seen on other websites, so it was really quick to do.

@gostobsec

I do find this surprising (not that I’m doubting what you say!), and I was wondering why no-one else replied. So far in this thread, we do have one other user (Piotr) who has reported this issue, so I guess I’m not totally alone. I really wouldn’t consider the way I use Dynalist to be abnormal, but I could be wrong.

Now two more people replied! So I guess it’s really an issue on the mobile app especially. One user did use custom CSS to always show sync status: Custom CSS to show sync status on top bar in mobile app (@Michael_Durland: it’s not as good as a save icon but it might help you!)

The underlying problem is that Dynalist doesn’t do background sync. Otherwise, we can start syncing immediately after you switch away. Without background sync, there’s no way we can predict when you’re going to leave the app; the only way seems to be aggressively sync after typing each letter.

@gostobsec

One possible solution: don’t use the mobile app. Instead, use a browser when using Dynalist from a phone. When I access Dynalist from Firefox on my Android phone, it appears to be able to sync to the cloud in the background after I have closed Firefox. To test this, I did the following:

Wow, I did not know that. Looks like browsers run in the background and that gives Dynalist a chance to sync after it’s closed. (By closed do you mean sent to the background, or killing the app? It would surprise me if it can still sync the rest of the sentence after it’s killed)