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H. Yi-Shan's avatar
H. Yi-Shan
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11 years ago

Can't get snapshot when link to Datastore on other devices

I am an iOS developer of a note-taking app. I tried Datastore to sync notes, which is so fast, that I have faith on it. However I tried to use it with my own database (Core Data) and ran into some pr...
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Steve M.'s avatar
Steve M.
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11 years ago

Are you using local datastores and then migrating? If so, then syncing can't take advantage of downloading a snapshot, since it needs to merge any local changes with the remote changes. (So it applies each delta one at a time, applying conflict resolution, just as though the app had been linked but offline.)

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