Re: [Evolution] palm sync problem. Errors, slow and duplication.

[JP Rosevear <jpr ximian com>]

On Tue, 2002-10-08 at 04:18, Mats Lidell wrote:
> Hi,
>
> After updating to RH8.0 I tried to sync again. (I had problems earlier
> with that.) So this report is about Evolution 1.0.8.
>
> * Problem 1
>
> By a coincident I started the gpilotd-control-applet in a shell so I
> could se the verbose output from the sync process. That was very
> valuable. As it happened I got an error reading something like "can't
> allocate -2 bytes" (That seems hard to do so no wonder it couldn't
> continue ;-) )
>
> Anyway that lead me to delete the address item that was causing the
> problem and then the sync worked.
>
> Conclusion: There can be records in the PDA that makes the sync to
> crash.

The above error indicates a probable idl mismatch.  The rh 8.0 pilot
packager has indicated to me there are some issues with the redhat
gnome-pilot packages.

> * Problem 2
>
> I have a confession. I'm quite fond of using jpilot so I was
> experimenting with syncing with both application. Both applications
> needs to do a slow sync when I change application to sync with.
>
> This makes you notice that syncing with Evolution is much, much slower
> than with jpilot. Maybe because of the debug printouts!? (I have tried
> though without running in a shell too and the speed is as poor.) In my
> case, since I have a lot of records in the PDA, it takes hours to do
> the sync after a switch. This makes the scheme of using the two apps
> together rather impractical.
>
> Conclusion: Evolution full sync must be faster!?

Hours?  How many records are we talking here?  JPilot also syncs in a
different manner, storing the records in the palm database format iirc.

> But that isn't enough. After jpilot has synced Evolution thinks all
> date book records and to do records in the PDA are new so you'll get
> another copy of them.
>
> Conclusion: Evolution has problems with identifying what records are
> new during a full sync. (Could of course be caused by jpilots sync
> doing something bad. I haven't seen the same problems with the desktop
> app from Palm before though but I haven't tested this recently with
> this setup.)

If jpilot touches any of the info in the record then this will occur as
per the palm sync rules.

-JP
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JP Rosevear <jpr ximian com>
Ximian, Inc.