I am sooo glad I tried to synch over the weekend so i did not loose any down time. I had terrible luck. I copied the database to my laptop and headed out for rounds. I signed a few charts on the desktop to see how synch handled changes on the home file whilst I was rounding. Came back and used the synch button. I listened to the warnings and backed up. My trusty desktop sprang to life and I heard the hard drive clicking away, the fans came on, a small green highlighted area on the screen told me about the progress. Everynow and then it changed to show me some other table was being compared, or merged or whatever.. I forget. This went on for over 20 minutes!! I CTRL-ALT-DEL to see what taskmanager had to say about the progress and I watched as it continued to use 80 % CPU and only 127 MB of my page file. After another 10 minutes, I gave up and closed the program from taskmanager. I opened amazing charts and it appears as if my data merged beautifully even though I ended the process before it was all finished. But I cannot exam three years of charts to know if it is not corrupted or what. So I deleted my files and restored the backup files (from the laptop minus only the few notes I already signed off on the desktop). And then signed those, and went home to post this.
Any ideas what went wrong? Or is it really supposed to take this long. I'm using an Intel Pentium 4 at 1.6 gHz with only 256 MB of RAM and using Windows XP Pro for my OS. I'd appreciate any help or feedback.
-Santos

Alberto Santos III, DO
Southwest Family Medicine
San Marcos, TX