Re: Hotsync with evolution loses calendar entries occasionally - any ideas why?

[Wolfgang Heinrich <wolfg heinrich googlemail com>]

Hi Chris,

i am only a user and no expert, but i use gnome-pilot for 2 years now.
my guess: time differences between Dektop an Palm.
- do you sync time with evry HOTSYNC? i rccomend to do so.
- the only troube i had was with "multi day events", so i dont use this
feature.

Maybe this helps!

Regards,
Wolfgang


Am Dienstag, den 02.08.2011, 17:43 +0100 schrieb Chris G:
> My wife uses a Treo 680 with Evolution on xubuntu 10.04.
> 
> She uses both Evolution and the Treo 680 for entering and changing
> calender entries, she hotsyncs them fairly regularly but sometimes it
> doesn't get done for several days if she's away on business etc.
> 
> Most of the time it works fine and everything is synchronized correctly
> but occasional items are missed and it's only her good memory that means
> that they don't get forgotten.  
> 
> For example we recently came back from a short holiday and she hotsynced
> the Treo with Evolution.  One item that she had put into the Treo for
> 8th August didn't appear on Evolution's calendar.  Simply making a
> trivial change to the event got it synchronised correctly.
> 
> So, two questions:-
> 
>     Can anyone suggest a mechanism which might cause events to fail to
>     synchronise occasionally?  E.g. would a hotsync *failure* make
>     either end think that an item had been synchronised even when it
>     hadn't and thus not be sent on the next (successful) hotsync?
> 
>     Is there a way to force a full synchronisation both ways so that one
>     can be sure that the Treo 680 and Evolution are in step?  I know
>     syncevolution has a way of doing this (it calls it a 'slow sync' I
>     think).
>