Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

George N Armah

Andrew Sean Watson

Brian David Jones

Steve Rayson

Yisheng Chen

Tejprakash Singh Gill

Kevin Paschal D'Souza

Yigithan Dedeoglu

A system is provided for enabling in-application support for topological changes to local files during remote synchronization. The techniques disclosed herein solve the problems of existing systems by mitigating conflict states and loss of edits being made to a file during synchronization. In addition, the techniques disclosed herein enable a user to interact directly with a productivity application to rename and/or move a file. The techniques disclosed herein provide an improved user experience and more efficient methods for interacting with files in that a user does not have to exit a productivity application and interact with an operating system interface to rename and/or move a file. A productivity application can operate in a server mode or a client mode depending on a validity of a requested destination location for a file.

In-application support for topological changes to files during remote synchronization

Techniques for limiting synchronization conflicts during file synchronization in a computing system are described herein. In one embodiment, a method includes detecting a change to a local copy a computer file on a client device. The local copy is associated with a local token. The method also includes obtaining a server token associated with a server copy of the same computer file on a file server and determining whether the local token matches the server token. If the local and server tokens match each other, the method includes uploading the local copy to the file server to overwrite the server copy even though the server copy contains a change to the computer file that is different than a change to the local copy of the same computer file.

File synchronization with reduced conflicts in computing systems

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