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Re: gnome-pilot-list Digest, Vol 81, Issue 2

Dan — 2011-11-10T12:56:21

...I find it easier to just pop them open and replace the innards of the hardware!



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Re: Transferring settings to a new device

Daniel CLEMENT — 2011-11-10T10:18:06

Hi, thanks for the replies

Matt Davey wrote:

That should work, I thought "restore" was only for the same device where
the backup came from (same ID).

< at >Oon-Ee Ng: I have located an nvbackup install file, I didn't now it. I
wonder if it does more than the regular Gnome-Pilot backup tool.

This won't harm to test, as the target Palm device will be empty.

Sure!

I have several! A faithful Palm Treo 680 which I use (but the "o" key is
becoming lazy), a TX and possibly somewhere in the house my old M515.
Feel free ti make me an offer ;-)

Note that I have not received the replacement device, I just wanted to
check how to avoid mistakes.

Regards,

Re: Transferring settings to a new device

Matt Davey — 2011-11-09T13:28:11

You should be able to use the 'restore' feature in gnome-pilot.  I don't
have an install to hand, but as far as I remember you can right-click on
the sync icon on your desktop bar and select "restore..."

Alternatively, I believe that if you just attempt a sync, gnome-pilot
will see an unrecognised ID and ask if you want to do a restore.  If you
have multiple palms known to gnome-pilot it'll let you choose one to
restore.

Personally, I'd backup your gnome-pilot directory first, just in case!

Impressive you still have a functioning device.  You've outlasted me by
a few years at this stage :)

Matt

Re: Transferring settings to a new device

Oon-Ee Ng — 2011-11-07T23:06:17

I no longer use palm os but when I did nvbackup was the go-to app for these
situations
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Transferring settings to a new device

Daniel CLEMENT — 2011-11-07T15:25:34

Hello,

I've had the opportunity of replacing my aging Treo 680 with a new one,
physically identical (though in better shape).

I'd like to transfer, if possible, everything from the old one to the
new one. What are my best options:

1) When pairing the new device, should I (could I) choose a different ID
than the old one? (Syncing the old one won't be necessary afterward.)

2) After the pairing is done, is it correct / possible to restore a
backup of the old device to the new one? My goal is to restore even the
apps. this way, and I don't think it would be enough to sync for that.

I do realize that some settings will need to be manually restored, but
I'd like to automate the process as much as possible.

TIA for advice - best regards,

gnome-pilot 2.91.93

Matt Davey — 2011-09-14T17:10:37

Dear all,

I'm pleased to announce the release of gnome-pilot and
gnome-pilot-conduits 2.91.93.

This is a maintenance release to bring gnome-pilot-conduits up to gtk3,
and also to fix a few bugs, the most prominent of which was an incorrect
directory path for the evolution calendar conduit.

Matt

Sync between a computer and Palm device

Robert Miller — 2011-08-11T14:04:03

I have had the same experience of losing data when I try to sync from my
Palm either an event that's repeated or one that doesn't have a specific
hour.  It appears that the problem lay whenever there's any time difference
between the computer and the Palm.  The work-around is easy, but it's
nuisance after a while.

Robert Miller

 

 

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Re: Hotsync with evolution loses calendar entries occasionally -any ideas why?

Chris G — 2011-08-10T16:45:04

It's possible I suppose, but does hotsync use the timestamps to decide
what is newest?


Is this a manual process?

Anything helps!  :-)  Thank you.

Re: Hotsync with evolution loses calendar entries occasionally -any ideas why?

Wolfgang Heinrich — 2011-08-04T16:04:24

Hi Chris,

i am only a user and no expert, but i use gnome-pilot for 2 years now.
my guess: time differences between Dektop an Palm.
- do you sync time with evry HOTSYNC? i rccomend to do so.
- the only troube i had was with "multi day events", so i dont use this
feature.

Maybe this helps!

Regards,
Wolfgang


Am Dienstag, den 02.08.2011, 17:43 +0100 schrieb Chris G:

Hotsync with evolution loses calendar entries occasionally - anyideas why?

Chris G — 2011-08-02T16:43:25

My wife uses a Treo 680 with Evolution on xubuntu 10.04.

She uses both Evolution and the Treo 680 for entering and changing
calender entries, she hotsyncs them fairly regularly but sometimes it
doesn't get done for several days if she's away on business etc.

Most of the time it works fine and everything is synchronized correctly
but occasional items are missed and it's only her good memory that means
that they don't get forgotten.  

For example we recently came back from a short holiday and she hotsynced
the Treo with Evolution.  One item that she had put into the Treo for
8th August didn't appear on Evolution's calendar.  Simply making a
trivial change to the event got it synchronised correctly.

So, two questions:-

    Can anyone suggest a mechanism which might cause events to fail to
    synchronise occasionally?  E.g. would a hotsync *failure* make
    either end think that an item had been synchronised even when it
    hadn't and thus not be sent on the next (successful) hotsync?

    Is there a way to force a full synchronisation both ways so that one
    can be sure that the Treo 680 and Evolution are in step?  I know
    syncevolution has a way of doing this (it calls it a 'slow sync' I
    think).

Re: Current status (birthday supported?)

Matt Davey — 2011-05-17T11:50:55

Hi Oon-Ee,


That's pretty much right.  I'm happy to integrate contributed code, but
am unlikely to code this myself.

Matt

Re: Current status (birthday supported?)

Oon-Ee Ng — 2011-05-17T09:22:44

Ah, much more involved then. Nothing in gnome-pilot processes
ContactsDB, then? Jpilot uses ContactsDB as well as AddressDB
(selectable), I've taken a look at their structures, but have no idea
on gnome-pilot internals. I suppose both projects are basically in
maintenance mode due to PalmOS deprecation, though?

Re: Current status (birthday supported?)

Matt Davey — 2011-05-17T09:16:22

Hi,

On Wed, 2011-05-11 at 08:11 +0800, Oon-Ee Ng wrote:

No, supporting birthdays is a matter of rewriting the
"address-conduit.c" conduit to use the pilot-link "Contacts" API instead
of the original "Address" API.  The PalmOS 5 release introduced Contacts
and changed the API, and database format, from the original AddressDB
format.

Matt

Palm M500/Ubuntu/USB

Michael Barraclough — 2011-05-16T04:49:04

I have a Palm M500 that I am trying to connect via USB to my PC running
Ubuntu 11.04.  I am using the gnome-pilot software but when  I press the
hotsync button, nothing happens.

Help would be much appreciated.

Michael Barraclough
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Re: Current status (birthday supported?)

Oon-Ee Ng — 2011-05-11T00:11:22

Thanks Matt,

A follow-up question, I'd assume that supporting birthdays is a matter
of upgrading the vCard version supported (I'm assuming that's the
internal format)?

On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 4:26 AM, Matt Davey <mcdavey< at >mrao.cam.ac.uk> wrote:

Re: Current status (birthday supported?)

Matt Davey — 2011-05-10T20:26:15

Quick answer: unfortunately, not.

Matt

On Fri, 2011-05-06 at 06:36 +0800, Oon-Ee Ng wrote:

Current status (birthday supported?)

Oon-Ee Ng — 2011-05-05T22:36:28

Hi, just a quick question, with Evolution 3.0.1 (and I guess
gnome-pilot 2.91.92) are birthdays supported with gnome-pilot sync?

Re: memofile duplicates and missing

brad — 2011-04-15T22:11:56

I should have mentioned:
ubuntu 10.04
gnome-pilot 2.0.17

On Fri, 2011-04-15 at 16:03 -0600, brad wrote:

memofile duplicates and missing

brad — 2011-04-15T22:03:10

I have the MemoFile Conduit set to sync.
I'm seeing some strange behavior with the memofile files.   On the host
side there are a bunch of duplicated files w/ .1, .2, etc suffixes.
Also after a recent sync I noticed that some of the files had
disappeared on the PDA side.  I deleted all of the extra files and
'touched' all of the files on the host side and did another sync.  I
successfully got the files synced up so they were back on the PDA side
again, but some (not all) of the *.[1-9] files came back!  On the PDA
side now I have duplicates.  In the past I've seen duplicates pop up now
and then.

gnome-pilot-2.32.1 release

Matt Davey — 2011-03-21T08:19:40

gnome-pilot 2.32.1 'Tofu', 2011-03-20
-------------------------------------
Bugfix release for 2.32.x branch.

Significant changes and bug fixes since 2.32.0:
   - fix crash in configuration applet when configuring multiple Evolution
       conduits #644319
   - fix crash in configuration applet caused by non-ASCII characters in
       owner name, introduced in migration to dbus in 2.32.0
   - fix gob rules to support parallel builds, and todo conduit map-file patch  #634874,634869.
   - Fix map-file path for todo conduit. #634869
   - fix include problem when using a separate build directory.  #634880
   - Use dbus directly for device detection, instead of HAL. #593936
   - Use gnome-doc-utils (Mario Bl<C3><A4>ttermann)

Thanks to Matt McCutchen for several bug-fixes and
improvements (#634874, #634869, #634880, #634873).

Thanks to the translation team for their great work:
   - Daniel Mustieles (es)
   - Yinghua Wang (zh_CN)
   - Daniel Nylander (sv)
   - Andrea Zagli (it)
   - Kjartan Maraas (nb)
   - Antonio Fernandes C. Neto (pt_BR)
   - Inaki Larranaga (eu)

gnome-pilot 2.91.92

Matt Davey — 2011-03-20T23:34:48

gnome-pilot 2.91.92 'Ellie', 2011-03-20
----------------------------------------
gnome-pilot provides integration between gnome and palmos-based PDAs,
including backup and synchronisation with evolution.

This version of gnome-pilot requires gnome-3. It has been tested
against gnome version 2.91.91. This version is largely complete,
but has not been heavily tested, so there may well be problems still
lurking.

Note that there is no support for gnome-shell, but the panel-applet
should work (ported from bonobo to dbus) in fallback mode.

Significant changes and bug fixes since 2.32.0:
- complete port to gtk3/gnome3, #590215
- update all libraries to major version 3, including conduits. Should
allow parallel installs with gnome-2 if desired.
- migrated applet to use libpanel4 (dbus instead of bonobo) #592604, #630725
- fix crash in configuration applet when configuring multiple Evolution
conduits #644319
- fix crash in configuration applet caused by non-ASCII characters in
owner name, introduced in migration to dbus in 2.32.0
- fix gob rules to support parallel builds, and todo conduit map-file patch #634874,634869.
- Fix map-file path for todo conduit. #634869
- fix include problem when using a separate build directory. #634880
- Use dbus directly for device detection, instead of HAL. #593936
- Use gnome-doc-utils (Mario Bl<C3><A4>ttermann)

Thanks to Matt McCutchen for several bug-fixes and
improvements (#634874, #634869, #634880, #634873).

Thanks to the translation team for their great work:
- Daniel Mustieles (es)
- Yinghua Wang (zh_CN)
- Daniel Nylander (sv)
- Andrea Zagli (it)
- Kjartan Maraas (nb)
- Antonio Fernandes C. Neto (pt_BR)
- Inaki Larranaga (eu)