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On Sat, 24 Apr 2010 07:38:03 -0700, Carl Worth <cworth@cworth.org> wrote:
> Otherwise, we might want to start supporting more clever handling of the
> exception. For example, the high-level application might want to retry
> an operation if it fails due to a DatabaseModified exception.

This is what I would like to do (and thought that I was!) in notsync.

dme.
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David Edmondson, http://dme.org