On Thu, 2003-07-03 at 02:38, Nigel Metheringham wrote: > Is anyone else using Evolution 1.4 with connector and a palm PDA? > > I'm finding that the evolution conduits are causing massive duplication > of any touched item in a way that does not happen against standard evo > contacts/calendar/todo list. > > In particular any item deleted from either palm or exchange does not get > deleted from the other side on sync, and if an appointment (for example) > is modified on either side you end up with both the original and > modified version after sync. > > Nigel.
This is probably not what you want to hear, but: In all honesty, switching to Linux on the desktop finally meant not using a PDA. I find that PDAs work fine if you stick to pilot-link and JPilot, but synchronization with Evolution is fraught with difficulty and breaks with every change of software or hardware. The two-step from Evo to jpilot isn't acceptable, so I gave up. At its best (evo and pilot communicating reliably on the first try), I have still had the duplication problems you mention. There is a dedupe program in the pilot-link distribution that will kill the duplicates on the palm device, but of course that only solves half the problem. Additionally, "upgrading" from my trusty Palm V to a pretty Sony Clie turned out to be a bad idea -- the Clie was a lot more fragile, and replacing a broken screen quickly made me a little more reticent to carry the PDA. Since the Palm V doesn't synchronize reliably through a USB-to-serial connector and its internal battery is starting to go out any way, both PDAs just gather dust in a drawer. On days when I'm going out of the office, I just scribble down the times and bridge numbers / addresses on a piece of paper and stick that in my pocket. Terribly old-fashioned, but frankly easier to manage in the car any way :-) I've been working with this stuff since the Palm III and have tried source compilations, Ximian RPMs, and Mandrake RPMs of every component through the releases of the last two years up to about March of this year. I've been on the gnome-pilot and pilot-link mailing lists and have bothered the developers directly. It's just not worth it any more. -- Jack Coates Monkeynoodle: A Scientific Venture... http://www.monkeynoodle.org/resume.html _______________________________________________ evolution maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution
