Re: can't get gnome calendar to sync

["Matt Doyle" <matt_the_bishop hotmail com>]

Thanks a lot for your help.

I guess I'll just wait a while for Evolution then! :)  At least it backs up 
the Palm OK, which is the important thing I guess.

Matt


> From: Donovan Baarda <abo minkirri apana org au>
> To: Matt Doyle <matt_the_bishop hotmail com>
> CC: gnome-pilot-list gnome org
> Subject: Re: can't get gnome calendar to sync
> Date: Tue, 05 Sep 2000 12:18:06 +1100 (EST)
>
> Quoting Matt Doyle <matt_the_bishop hotmail com>:
>
> > Running Red Hat 6.2.  Installed:
> [...]
> > from HelixCode's site.
> >
> > All works fine, except the Gnome Calendar conduit which doesn't appear
> > to do anything except open the calendar.  No data is transferred to the
> > calendar.
>
> I had similar problems but eventualy got it to work, sort of. It might be 
> the
> conduit settings need to be set as "Syncronise", or perhaps it's just that
> calendar which pops up on sync needs to be closed and re-started to see the
> changes.
>
> Dispite the fact that I got it to transfer data, it screwed the data up.
> Periodic events got their dates stuffed up, and to-do's are not synced at 
> all.
> It does appear to be good enough for backing up and restoring to the pilot 
> (I
> managed to apparently restore after a reset OK), but not for using calendar 
> as
> an alternative way to manipulate the calendar and to-do data.
>
> [...]
> > Could someone point me in the right direction please?  What
> > versions/distributions of the packages would you recommend?  Also, which
> > calendar file does the calendar conduit sync with, or does it just sync
> > with Gnome Calendar directly?
> [...]
>
> I did a browse around and it appears that all effort on gnome-pim has been
> suspended in favor of Evolution. This means fixes are unlikely unless you 
> or I
> do them ourselves.
>
> gnome-pilot seems to backup all the raw pilot databases to 
> ~/MyPilot/backups
> (or whatever it's called), and then use the conduits to transfer the data 
> to
> the various applications. In the case of the calendar conduit, the data is
> transfered to a vcalendar file in ~/.gnome/<something I forget>.vcf which 
> is
> used by the calendar application. This means that gnome-pilot should be 
> able to
> recover everything from the backups on restore dispite the brokenness of 
> any
> conduits (at least it could and I hope it does...but maybe not).
>
> I had a browse around the gnome-pim and gnome-pilot buglists and found 
> heaps
> outstanding, but nothing obviously discribing the corruption of periodic
> events. I did see something on the discussion lists about patches to fix 
> this
> problem, but it doesn't look like they have been applied yet. Basicly, 
> gnome-
> pim looks like an orphaned project.
>
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