Re: Synching with two computers

[Tom Lamm <tom osageinc com>]

No Matt, that was not the nature of the problem. I've gotten used to  
that kind of synch errors after a while. In the interest of your  
statement, "That would be alot of help", I'll outline the details. Iit  
is of help, and I'm glad to do it.

When the Palm receives the contacts, calendar, and todo list from  
Windows, it appears ok in the Palm.

When I synch that information with Evo, the contacts seem to be ok, the  
calendar hangs the synch process (I often have to kill gpilot-d and  
restart the applet, simply hitting Cancel on the Palm will not allow a  
clean finish), and the todo list has 100's or 1000's of blank todos.

The solution I found is to populate the Palm from Evo, and not synch  
those three conduits with Windows. As soon as you allow Windows to  
synch with the Palm, these symptoms re-appear. I could be way off base,  
but suspect that there is something in the Window's data format that  
Evo is not expecting.

Evo Side:
Linux 2.6.10
Debian testing
Gnome Desktop
Evo 2.0.4

Windows Side:
Windows 2000 (well it WAS current when I left Windows for Linux)
Palm 4.1.2

If you need further details, or sample data I'll be glad to provide  
them. Again, I'm past caring about the issue, I use the Windows machine  
very little. I synch through Windows to use the Documents on the Go  
features. Being able to build a client's quote on a Palm during my down  
time is wonderful. I do not need the other three conduits in Windows.

Matt, I like your attitude. You saw an offer for information and said,  
"That would really help". Glad to help out. Let me know if I can do  
anything else.

Tom

On 04/14/05 03:49:52, Matt Davey wrote:
> On Wed, 2005-04-13 at 22:43, David A. Desrosiers wrote:
> > > If
> > > this leaves you scratching your head thinking "why the heck would
> > > anybody want to do that" I will not waste the bandwidth.
> >
> > 	Second, your attitude sucks.
>
> Just as a second opinion, I didn't read Tom's original post as an
> insult.  David's dead right, of course, that any diagnosis or
> practical
> help will require more detail, but I think Tom acknowledged that up
> front.
>
> If you search the archives for this list you will see many problems
> reported with Evolution syncing, some general and some more specific.
> Try searching for 'duplicate', for example.  I can't think of any that
> have managed to reduce the problem to a simple reproducible scenario.
> If you can reduce the problem to something that reliably occurs with a
> very small address book (like, two entries, say) and you can outline
> the
> steps to reproduce it, that'd be a huge help.
>
> Also, make sure you understand the sync logic that kicks in with
> multiple machines.  If records change on device and desktop then
> duplicates are created and it is up to the user to delete one of them.
>
> This aims to avoid data loss, obviously.
>
> My own suspicion is that Evolution sometimes reorders entries in a
> (say)
> address record, and then perceives them as changed, and duplicates.
> I'm
> basing this on not much more than noticing that when I occasionally
> get
> duplicates that there are differences between them: perhaps the mobile
> and email fields have reversed, or a custom field has disappeared.
>
> Matt
>
> Matt Davey        Two cannibals eating a clown. One says to the other
> mcdavey mrao cam ac uk 	"Does this taste funny to you?"
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