Wow, you seem to have been at this for a while. Ok, here's my suggestion. I hope others will read it an critique away! Run from the shell (terminal.. whatever). $> evolution --force-shutdown Now evolution will be stopped and there will be nothing running in memory holding old dirty data that needs to be synced to disk. From your home dir. Tar up your current evo data JUST IN CASE! $> tar -czf ./evolution.backup.tar.gz ./evolution/ This should create a tar file with all your data in it, it should be pretty big. Make sure that the above is the case (you could try untaring the ball into /tmp and see what you get). Now we are free to mess around. If you have a data snapshot on your pilot that you are happy with I would delete the evolution folder completely. This may not be nessicary, I would skip to the COPY FROM PILOT step and try that first. If it doesn't work, then nuke your evo data. Now get syncing to work! Simply have the pilot settings on COPY FROM PILOT for this sync only and now your calendar and contacts and stuff should be good to go. Ok, so if that didn't work you can try to delete your data and start fresh. YOU BACKED UP YOUR DATA RIGHT? WHERE IS THAT TAR BALL! $> rm -rf evolution No go back and try to COPY DATA FROM PILOT. To get your mail back up to speed, you can copy the local folders from that tarball we created /evolution/local/Inbox would be one, and any other mail folders you created. I don't think you have to worry about the "backup" conduit as it only goes one way. You have to issue commands to restore a backup! Good luck, Chris
OK. Here's the scenario. At one point, I had accidentally done a restore instead of a synch. There must have been an alarm that I skipped (not sure if on the Sony or the PC). Anyway, what I got was a fatal error message box on the Sony saying there was a skipped alarm. The reset button in the box did nothing more than reset back to the error message. It took a hard reset back to "original" state to eliminate it. But, in the datebook data on the PC, that skipped alarm was still there. So, it took redoing the hard reset, switching to Windows & restoring from a slightly older copy my data. Then returning to linux to rename my jpilot synch folder, then doing a fresh synch. Next, opening Evo & search for anything that might be an offending alarm, then doing a fresh synch there, as well. But, since I set backup copies to 5, I'm leery that my 0-4 subdirectories (off MyPilot) may contain one or more copies of the datebook file with the bad data, if I have to restore. And I don't know enough about linux, Gnome or Evo yet to be sure I can just delete. Especially since I found other copies in other locations than just there & the jpilot directory -- not in the home directory area.
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