Re: [Evolution] pilot synchronization doesn't appear to work

[JP Rosevear <jpr ximian com>]

On 14 Mar 2001 12:46:23 -0600, Matthew Vanecek wrote:

> On 14 Mar 2001 01:33:30 -0500, JP Rosevear wrote:
> > On 13 Mar 2001 22:59:04 -0600, Matthew Vanecek wrote:
> > > I'm not sure if I'm doing something wrong or what.  I've got the
> > > calendar, address book, and to-do conduits configured in GNOME control
> > > center, to merge from pilot.  I tried first to copy from pilot.
> > > However, none of the entries I have on my Visor show up in Evolution
> > > Calendar, or Contacts, or Tasks.  I noticed there were some pilot-*
> > > files in the ~/evolution/local/* tree.
> >
> > Those should be there after a sync.  Do an oaf-slay and restart - what
> > happens?  Also helpful would be to run gpilotd on the command line and
> > try syncing  let me know about the output.  Also check to see whats
> > currently in the calendar.ics and tasks.ics file.  make sure you backup
> > first :-).
>
> I should probably mention that I'm using cvs evolution (HEAD), from late
> last week...
> Ok, I tried that, but still no entries.  The output from gpilotd is
> quite extensive.  Below is a snippet, for example:

> ---------------------------------------------------------
>
> eaddrconduit-Message: pre_sync: Addressbook Conduit v.0.1.1
> eaddrconduit-Message: Addressbook Conduit v.0.1.1
> eaddrconduit-Message:     doing slow sync
>
> eaddrconduit-Message: match: looking for local copy of ['Andrews' 'Kyle'
> '']
>
> eaddrconduit-Message: match: looking for local copy of ['Bennet'
> 'Phyllis' 'Hami
> lton Family']

This and the other output below all appears as though you already have
an existing successful sync.  Are the conduits configured to do a
"Synchronize"?

> Here's the calendar.ics file:
>
> Here's the tasks.ics file:
>
> They look remarkably similar to me.

They both use the icalendar format

> I noticed the pilot-*db files are in db 1.8.5 format.  I'm not sure if
> that's correct or not.   Here is what is present in the Tasks directory:

It is correct.  The .db file stores a hash of the items in the last
known state.  Judging by the size of the file it looks like a bunch of
cards have been stored.  I'm wondering now if the wombat is crashing
somewhere on your machine and the final file is not being written out to
disk.

Below all looks correct.

> me2v reliant Tasks $ ls -l
> total 20
> -rw-r--r--    1 me2v     users          97 Mar 14 10:37 folder-metadata.xml
> -rw-r--r--    1 me2v     users          56 Mar 14 10:41 pilot-map-todo-500.xml
> -rw-r--r--    1 me2v     users       16384 Mar 14 10:41 pilot-sync-evolution-todo-500.db
> -rw-r--r--    1 me2v     users         116 Mar 14 10:41 tasks.ics


-JP

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