[Evolution] Re: Syncing Evolution

[Martin Gill]

Paul M. Bucalo wrote:

>On Tue, 2005-02-08 at 11:26 +1100, Andrew Greig wrote: 
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>>Hi Paul,
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>>I have tried to sort out the gpilotd and also kpilot, as the korganizer 
>>has come a long way forward.  But neither Evo-pliot nor kpilot would 
>>sync.  I fired up jpilot and it worked beautifully.  I ran through my 
>>contacts on the desktop and deleted the duplicates, then I synched with 
>>the Pilot and all of the duplicates in the Palm were deleted as well.  I 
>>added some Calendar events and tasks and added an extra address, and 
>>synched again, fantastic -- perfect, I even caught the fact that it was 
>>updating AvantGo (something I do not use due to a lack of local 
>>channels).  So I guess the question needs to be asked " What can the 
>>Evo-pilot authors steal from jpilot?" cos it works and Evo does not.
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>Better documentation would have probably reduced the number of
>complaints I have seen Web-wide...
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>>I have been a loyal and vigorous advocate of Evoution
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>me too...
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>> since before it 
>>was 1.0, I think that 1.2 was excellent, 1.4.6 not too shabby, but I 
>>have had more difficulties with Evo 2 than just the pilot deal.
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>same here...
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>>  Maybe 
>>by 2.5 it will all be OK again.  In the meantime, for my business sake I 
>>will have to use jpilot as my scheduling tool, and Evo or Mozilla as my 
>>mail client.
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>This is what I came up with. It works for me:
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>1. Create a script that executes gpilotd and place it in
>~/Desktop/Autostart. (This script tests if gpilotd is already running so
>as not to start it again.):
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>#!/bin/sh
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>GPILOTD_RUNNING=3D`/bin/ps -A | grep gpilotd`
>#check to see if gpilotd is already running
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>if [ ! -z "$GPILOTD_RUNNING" ]
>then
>        #start gpilotd -- where it's located in FC3
>        exec /usr/libexec/gpilotd >> ~/gpilotd.log 2>&1
>else
>        #don't bother, gpilotd is already running
>        echo "gpilotd already running" >> ~/gpilotd.log 2>&1
>fi
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>#End of script
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>Make it executable, restart X or drop back to your session manager and
>log back in. gpilotd will be running and ready to let your Palm device
>sync with Evo!
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>Now I sync every time, with Evo open or not.
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For the most part I get Evo to sync fine, and I've actually got 
something like that already running for gpilot. There is a gnome desktop 
(panel) applet that will do it.

I can't get evo to sync my tasks, and I don't at the moment have the 
time to learn how to debug on linux to try and figure out what's wrong. 
Shame, because I tend to prefer Evo to the KDE equivalents.

>Hope this helps you reconsider Evo, Andrew.
>
>Paul
>(a happier Evo user, now) 
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