[Evolution] Palm Sync Debugging

[JP Rosevear]

On Fri, 2004-12-31 at 08:46 -0500, Jeremey Wise wrote:
> I have one last thing to get evolution to work to its utter perfection.
> So far every thing is running swimmingly so I figured I would tackle
> PALM sync.
> 
> Specs: Thinkpad T41, Samsung i500 (phone/palm), SuSE 9.2,
> gnome-pilot-2.0.12-3,pilot-link-0.11.8-126, evolution-pilot-2.0.1-6.2,
> evolution-2.0.1-6.2
> 
> Error: I run gpilotd-control-applet I can enable "Backup", "Test", and
> "ECalendar" but if I enable "ToDo" or "EAddress" gpilotd crashes. I will
> then get duplicate contacts in my palm and it also hangs the palm hard. 
> 
> Questions:
> 1) Poking around I find 
> wisej@wizej:~/.evolution/addressbook/local> directory where I believe
> would be all the local contacts. Can I backup just this director and
> restore it in my tests to make sure I don't mess up my contacts?

Yes, that should be fine.

> 2) Some of my contacts get sent to my palm but not all. I have not found
> the key or methodology as to why some are and others aren't. Is their a
> set of key fields that must be filled in?

I'm not sure what you mean here.

> 3) Is their a way to sync both local and global ECalendar events to the
> palm. I have personal events scheduled and don't want to have them show
> up in the corporate calendar so I keep them local, but my goal is to
> have my phone remind me if I have a corporate meeting coming up.

Currently you can only sync one calendar at a time.

-JP
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JP Rosevear <jpr@novell.com>
Novell, Inc.