Re: [Evolution] Serious issue with gnome pilot latest release (ev o 1.2)

[John Locke <mail freelock com>]

Hello, 

New Evolution user, new list member. I came to make some feature
suggestions, as it looks like the developers are active here...

But first, I have a fix for your palm duplicate records, since I just
went through this myself.

I didn't get triplicate records--only duplicate. I suspect it happened
at some point when I got impatient waiting for synching to stop, and
interrupted it or something.

It took a very long time to sync all of the databases the first time,
and, other than the indication of what application is synching on the
Palm, found no way of tracking its progress. But now it's all working
very smoothly.

I'm running Evolution 1.2 on Mandrake 9.0, under KDE, with a Palm Vx. I
generally start synching by going to Tools | Pilot Settings to start up
the gpilotd daemon, then press the hotsync button.

Here's the fix:

1. Make sure you have the pilot-link package installed (specifically,
pilot-dedupe).

2. Synchronize with Evolution. First time took as long as 30 minutes,
even with 115200 as the transfer speed on both the Palm and in Gpilot
settings.

3. Open a shell and kill gpilotd: "ps -ef | grep pilot" to get the
process id, "kill xxxx" to kill it.

4. Type "pilot-xfer -l", and press the hotsync button to get a list of
all of the databases on the palm.

5. Type "pilot-dedupe " and the names of the databases that have
duplicates--for example, "pilot-dedupe AddressDB ToDoDB DatebookDB".
Then press the hotsync button, & wait...

6. When that's all done, go back to Evolution, open the Pilot Settings,
and for each of the Evolution conduits, use a One Time Action of Copy
> From Pilot. This nukes all the duplicates in Evolution.

I discovered this after going through and deleting some 360 duplicate
contacts!

Hope that helps somebody!

Cheers,
John Locke
Owner, Freelock, LLC
http://www.freelock.com




> On Wed, 2002-11-13 at 14:13, Itzchak Rehberg wrote:
> > Hi Anders,> > 
> >  Had more or less the same experience with Mdk 9 /Gnome 2 /Evo 1.2.
>  > All calendar entries in triplicate.
> <snip>
>
> Does this sound like http://bugzilla.ximian.com/show_bug.cgi?id=33398 to
> you?  I'm able to reproduce this, though I never got more than one
> duplicate (i.e. I was never able to get triplicates).
>
> -- 
> Mark Gordon <mtgordon ximian com>