I love iFolder, Novell's file synchronization solution. It keeps a handful of folders synchronized across multiple machines including my desktop and 2 laptops.
There hasn't been much development on the open-source side of things and some recent Microsoft updates combined with having iFolder installed have lead to nuisance application crashes. Usually it's after I save a file and exit a program (like notepad) and the offending module is "iFolderShell.dll".
There are some discussions on the issues over @ Novell's forums. It looks like 3.8.4.1 and 3.9 beta clients may have solved this problem - but those clients are only available to Novell's "paying" customers.
There is one way to fix the problem: disabling iFolder shell integration. The only effect that I've seen so far is that I don't see the iFolder icon on the folders that I'm currently synchronizing with iFolder - but other than that things are staying synchronized. Save the following paragraph into a .reg file and double-click it. Hopefully this solves your client crashes like it did for me. Include the REGEDIT4 line below:
REGEDIT4
[-HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\*\shellex\PropertySheetHandlers\iFolder]
[-HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Folder\shellex\ContextMenuHandlers\iFolder]
[-HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Folder\shellex\PropertySheetHandlers\iFolder]
[-HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\ShellIconOverlayIdentifiers\iFolder0]
[-HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\ShellIconOverlayIdentifiers\iFolder1]
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Shell Extensions\Approved]
"-{AA81D831-3B41-497c-B508-E9D02F8DF421}"
"-{AA81D830-3B41-497c-B508-E9D02F8DF421}"
Or you can download the .reg file here: ifolder-shell-disable.reg
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