Groove sync error with SharePoint
Today, a colleague had an interesting issue with Groove and SharePoint: he had synced a document library to a Groove workspace, but when he created a new folder in Groove, syncing with SharePoint failed with an error indicating that the folder already existed. The actual error was “Synchronization completed with errors”, and the detail: “The file “Shared%20Documents/xxx” could not be located: It may have been deleted, renamed, or moved.”
It took me a while to figure this out, but it has something to do with the default document library view in the SharePoint library. If this one has the option activated to hide folders (Show Items without folders), syncing with Groove fails. If you turn the folders back on in SharePoint, all goes well. Life is easy, isn’t it? Have a look at the screencast below for more info.
[...] The only way out was to delete the entire folder both in Groove and SharePoint, sync, and then add the folder back on the SharePoint side. I tried a number of things but ended up asking a more SharePoint-knowledgeable colleague for help. He promptly resolved the issue and made a screencast about it. Check it out: http://www.mylearning.be/?p=131 [...]