Opened up my OneNote notebook today on my primary work computer and noticed all of the notes I had entered over the weekend were not there. Reviewing the news tab on mesh (local copy), I saw that my last update was 4:37pm, but couldn’t figure out what the date was. I was able to correlate the times with the date/times shown on the full news feed on the Live Mesh desktop and figured out that I stopped syncing sometime last Thursday.

I was able to add news entries locally, but they wouldn’t show up anywhere else, and no changes made on my work computer would sync to any other location, in addition to my work computer not receiving any changes. I have another computer here at the office with Mesh installed, and it was working, so thankfully the IT staff at our parent company didn’t block another service at the firewall.

Here are some of the things I tried:

• Sign out and then back in
• Sigh out and exit and restart Mesh
• Set Work Offline on/off
• Reboot computer

Starting to get a little annoyed at this point. Looking at task manger, I could see both Moe and MoeMonitor there, but they wouldn’t do anything. Usually at start up they chew thru quite a bit of CPU. I decided to try to remove the sync setting for one of my folders, but got the error “503 Mesh service not available”. There was not much help via a Google search on the error message so it was time to resort to a reinstall. At first I tried the repair option offered in Add/Remove Programs (or what ever it’s called in Vista/Server2k8), and that more or less failed. It looks like it partially uninstalled, so I just went back in and did a full uninstall. Then I downloaded the 64bit client and re-installed.

Thankfully I’m back up and running and things seem to be working OK at this point. I’m hoping my conflicts were minimal. I read that there will be an update after the holidays with better conflict resolution which will be cool.