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Retries are a key feature of Peer Global File Service, used for automatically handling errors in the collaboration environment that would have otherwise led to a quarantine.  For more detailed information on how retries work, see Conflicts, Retries, and Quarantines in the Advanced Topics section.

When a file is put in the retry list, it will be automatically retried based on the settings defined in File Retries in Preferences.  If need be, you can also manually force the retry of a file.  This can be done from the Retries list of a specific File Synchronization job.

You may also chose to perform no action, in which case, the file is removed from the Retries list but none of the file versions are modified; therefore if the files are not currently in-sync, then the next time the file is modified, changes will be propagated to the other hosts.  If an error occurs while forcing the retry, then the Status field in the Retries table is updated to reflect the error.

To manually force the retry of a file (or multiple files):

1.Select the file(s) in the Retries list.

2.Select the host with the correct version.

3.Click the Release Conflict button.

After doing this, all hosts are checked to make sure the file is not currently locked by anyone.  If no locks are found, then locks are obtained on all versions of the file and the targets that are out-of-date are synchronized with the selected source host.