live share reconnection issue

[abhimanyiu]

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Product and Version [VS/VSCode]:
OS Version [macOS/Windows/Linux]:
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Target Platform or Language [e.g. Node.js]:

What were you doing when you encountered the desync?

How often have you encountered desyncs?

Do the host and the guest have the same contents?

If yes, there's no need to answer the following questions

If you are using VS Code, the following will provide helpful information.

On both the host and the guest:

• Enable the liveshare.diagnosticMode setting
• Open the file that's out of sync
• Run the liveshare.getCoeditingInformation command (ctrl+shift+p to open the command palette, then search for "Get co-editing information") and paste the results below

Host co-editing information:

Guest co-editing information:

To check that messages are being sent and received, open the Output view (ctrl+shift+u) and select "Visual Studio Live Share Coediting" from the dropdown. Type a character. On the sending end, you should see output like:

[2020-12-10 23:51:25.351 ] Post message: {"messageType":"textChange","changes":[{"length":0,"newText":"a","start":400}],"changeServerVersion":12,"clientId":24,"fileName":"/src/foo.txt","time":1607644285349,"sendId":16}

On the receiving end, you should see output like:

[2020-12-10 23:51:27.713 ] Receive message: {"context":{"GuestSessionId":"31","IsOwner":"False"},"sourceId":"Coauthoring","eventId":45,"jsonContent":"{"messageType":"textChange","changes":[{"length":0,"newText":"a","start":400}],"changeServerVersion":12,"clientId":24,"fileName":"/src/foo.txt","time":1607644427514,"sendId":25}","time":1607644427713}

Are messages being sent and received?

[Davsterl]

Thank you for the feedback. Do you have any additional data here that you can provide that would help us understand your issue better?

[Davsterl]

Closing as we do not have enough information to take action on this bug.