Re: Problem with restoreing files.

[Krzysztof Porowski <K Porowski elka pw edu pl>]

User JP Rosevear wrote:

> On Wed, 2003-04-16 at 09:53, Krzysztof Porowski wrote:
>  
>
> > 1. I had a small problem with gpilotd:
> >
> > My Palm Pilot m105 got down after loss of power. I had made a backup 
> > before so I wanted to restore it. I put the Palm on the craddle and 
> > pressed HotSync button. Gnome-pilot asked me if I want to restore a user 
> > ID and all the data stored on my hard-drive. Then I pressed OK, and the 
> > restoration bagun. After 30% it hung up on the Notepad. The Palm showed 
> > a message: "Connection lost." After few tries I figured it out, that 
> > file npadDB.pdb is responsible for this. After moving this file 
> > somewhere else I sarted to restore my Palm once more and it hung up on 
> > MemoDB.pdb. And then I moved.........
> >
> > Summarizing:
> > - gpilotd is killing itself after trying to restore Address*DB.pdb, 
> > DatebookDB.pdb, MemoDB.pdb, npadDB.pdb and ToDoDB.pdb,
> > - Pilot shows "Connection lost",
> > - progress window freezes,
> > - there is still question message box "Do you want to restore...." under 
> > the progress window, but it is not beeing redrawn,
> > Is it a BUG ?
> >    
Can anybody explain this strange behaviour? Or maybe somebody will fix 
it, PLEASE!
I have the same BUG when I chose Restore option :(

> > 2. What is Restore menu item supposed to do?
> >    
>
> Its supposed to restore all databases from the last backup.
>  
And there is one very important thing - to give a proper backup directory :)

> > 4. How does the install conduit work?
> >    
>
> The install conduit works by listing files to install, with
> gpilot-install-file or by d&d to the applet (if enabled).
>
>  
As I can see drag and drop to the applet make it not responding for 
anything except TERM :(.
Do I have to have the Install conduit enabled during d&d or only during 
the Sync?



Krzysztof