.Select Options - Communications Manager to display the Communications Manager dialog box. Here you can do any of the following:
View the data exchange activity for your workspaces, messages, and invitations.
Pause the data transfer for a selected workspace or activity, or for all workspaces and activities at once.
Set Groove to work offline.
Tip: You can also click the status bar on the Workspaces tab of the Launchbar or the Groove Workspace Explorer to pop up a communications panel. The Launchbar communications pop-up menu includes file sharing workspaces as well as other Groove workspaces.
The Communications Manager reports on the overall communications status, as well as the communications status of individual workspaces and other activities such as messages and invitations. Data counters at the top of the dialog box track amount of data you're currently transmitting and receiving. A status message (to the left of the data counters) reports on the current state of communications. The following table describes the status messages you might see.
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Communication Status |
Meaning |
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Communicating Normally |
You are working online and no communications activities are paused. |
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Communicating Normally (some activities paused) |
You are working online, but you paused at least one communication activity. |
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Working Offline (since mm/dd/yy, hh:mm) |
You are working offline. The time indication lets you know how long you have been in this state. |
|
Preparing to Work Offline... |
You are transitioning from working online to working offline. |
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Preparing to Work Online... |
You are transitioning from working offline to working online. |
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Unable to communicate (since mm/dd/yy, hh:mm) |
Groove cannot detect a local IP address. The time indication lets you know how long you have been in this state. |
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Not communicating (since mm/dd/yy, hh:mm) |
All attempts at communicating have failed. The time indication lets you know how long you have been in this state. |
In the Activity table, the Communications Manager provides status information about your workspaces, messages and invitations, and about other accounts you might have on this computer.
The table below lists the activities and the status messages you might see.
|
Activity |
Status |
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Synchronizing "workspace Name" |
Idle - Groove is waiting to send/receive data for the workspace. <Data> left to transmit; <Data> left to receive - The amount of data Groove is currently sending or receiving for the workspace. Merging changes - Groove is assimilating data into the workspace. Paused - The workspace is currently paused. Paused: <Data> left to transmit; <Data> left to receive - You paused the workspace with data left to send or receive. No longer being synchronized - You must be re-invited to the workspace. Synchronization blocked - Groove is downloading a tool to the workspace and cannot synchronize the space until tool download is complete. |
|
Sending "workspace Name(s)" |
<Data> left to transmit - Groove is sending the workspace and has data left to transmit. Paused: <Data> left to transmit - You paused the workspace as it was sending and has data left to transmit. |
|
Receiving "workspace Name(s)" |
<Data> left to receive - Groove is installing the workspace and has data left to receive. Paused: <Data> left to receive- You paused the workspace as it was installing and has data left to receive. |
|
Messages and invitations |
Idle - Groove is waiting to send/receive messages or invitations. <Data> left to transmit; <Data> left to receive - The amount of message or invitation data Groove is currently sending or receiving. Paused - The messaging feature is currently paused. Paused: <Data> left to transmit; <Data> left to receive - You paused the messaging feature with data left to send or receive. |
|
Communications for other accounts |
<Data> left to transmit; <Data> left to receive - The amount of data being sent or received by other accounts on this device. |
|
Miscellaneous communications |
<Data> left to transmit; <Data> left to receive - The amount of data being sent or received outside of workspaces and messaging activities. |
You can pause communications for a selected workspace or for messages and invitations. You might want to do this if want to postpone sending or receiving large quantities of data.
To pause communications for a workspace or activity, uncheck its checkbox. The status message for the workspace or activity changes to "Paused." To resume communications, re-check the checkbox.
You can also click Pause All to pause communications for all workspaces and message activity at once. This feature is most useful if you have a large number or workspaces, and you'd like to pause communication for all but one (or a few) of them. In that case, you can select Pause All and then resume communications for only selected workspaces.
Tip: You can also pause communications for a workspace by selecting it in a workspace list and selecting Options - Pause Communications. You can pause or resume communications for all workspaces by selecting Options - Pause All Communications or Options - Resume All Communications.
If you pause a workspace or communication activity, you will still receive incoming data if Groove clients are communicating via static IP address mode and:
Another member of the workspace you paused is running an earlier version of Groove.
A contact running an earlier version of Groove sends you a message or invitation.
Note: If Groove clients communicate through a relay server and you pause a workspace or communication activity, you will not receive incoming data.
Working offline suspends all Groove data communications, and displays your online status as "offline" to other Groove users.
Working offline is most useful when you want to just work locally, and when you prefer that others view you as temporarily unavailable.
To start working offline, click Work
Offline. The Groove taskbar icon changes to look like this: .
To resume working online, click Work Online.
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