Re: [Evolution] evolution 2 creates thousands of blank task entries

[James LaRue <jlarue jlarue com>]

JP Rosevear wrote:

> On Thu, 2004-12-23 at 11:01 -0700, James LaRue wrote:
>  
>
> > I used to use Evolution, until suddenly it had a duplication problem.
> > The bundled dedupe program couldn't keep up with it.
> >
> > I just moved to Ubuntu, and thought I'd give it another try. 
> >
> > The big issue is: first, literally hundreds of blank to dos showed up on
> > my Palm (M505), all with a default priority of 3. Another sync, and now
> > I seem to be up to the thousands. 
> >    
>
> Well, I don't know what to say here.  Definitely syncs summary and all
> that for me.  Does doing a copy to pilot (or copy to desktop) clean this
> up at all?.
>  
Nope. I did download the pilot-link apps, and dedupe removed 8,328 entries!

>  
>
> > On the PC side, I've got two other issues:
> >
> > * no syncing of memos at all (should be in the MyPilot directory, under
> > Memos, right?).
> >    
>
> We don't have anywhere to sync memos to, so evolution has no syncing for
> memos.
>  
I was wrong (and so were you!). It seems that the memos did go to a 
memo_file folder in my home directory. Some of them, nautilus couldn't 
see as text files, but they opened ok.

>  
>
> > * categories didn't come through. No categories for 900 names, nor for
> > tasks in some 7 categories.
> >    
>
> Unfortunately correct,  Evolution doesn't sync the categories currently,
> although its been a long time request.
>
> -JP
>