Re: The backup conduit mangles important data base info.

[Daniel Serodio <dserodio email com>]

On Tue, 2001-10-16 at 08:50, Gustavo Maciel Dias Vieira wrote:
> 
> Hello everyone,
> 
> I may have found a very, very, *very* nasty bug in gnome-pilot. It
> seems the backup conduit is mangling the backed up data bases. For the
> "standard" applications, the categories information is lost. Beyond
> losing this info, it makes the pilot crash badly if I try to restore
> the LaucherDB data base.

	I also had this problem with the categories. It's not much fun to
manually re-categorize 150+ phones... :-/

> 
> Using pilot-link I do not experience this problem. I first noticed
> this problem after I upgraded to gnome-pilot 0.1.61.

	Didn't try it with pilot-link, but this problem happens with 0.1.54
too.

> 
> Please, verify if this bug occurs with your setup.
> 
> Better, make me happy by proving it is just something I'm doing wrong.
> :)

	Not me, I tought I was doing something wrong too :)

> I'm using an aging Palm III that insists in draining the batteries
> vary fast, so I end up restoring all bases every 3 or 4 months.
> 
> I've filed a bug report in:
> http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=62431
> with more information and two copies of my LaucherDB, one extracted
> with pilot-link and the other extracted with gnome-pilot.
> 
> Thanks for any help,
> 
> Gustavo

	I don't know if the people who check bugzilla also read this list, so I
added a little comment there too.
 
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