Re: [Evolution] Another refugee from Evolution

[JP Rosevear <jpr novell com>]

On Mon, 2004-12-27 at 08:45 -0800, Richard S. Crawford wrote:
> I am giving up on Evolution.  As has been observed, it's a truly outstanding 
> product as a desktop groupware tool, but I really need something that can 
> sync reliably with my Sony Clie NX80.  I thought Evolution would do it, but 
> the conduits are simply too broken to be useful.  Not only did it produce 
> approximately 6,000 blank "to dos", it also broke the calendar configuration 
> somehow on my Clie.  The only fix for both was to delete both the ToDoDB and 
> the DateBkDB on my Clie, which apparently broke my Clie's ability to sync 
> reliably with even my Windows XP computer.  I eventually had to do a hard 
> reset, which resulted in my losing all of my calendar and task information 
> from my Clie and from my Windows machine (I probably could have avoided that 
> with some more careful planning, but it wasn't something I expected).

> I don't know if the problems I experienced are unique to me, but I'm guessing, 
> from some other messages I've seen, that they're not.

Well, I'm sorry to hear this.  I did see your message and in some
limited spare time, try to replicate the problem.  However both the
calendar and task items seem to work fine.  Which way were you trying to
sync?  Plain synchronization? copy to pilot? copy to desktop?

-JP
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JP Rosevear <jpr novell com>
Novell, Inc.