this isnt what happend, i just installed multisync, synced to laptop, and then next time it synced, (some mins) where i made no changes at all, there was duplicates :/
On Tue, 2003-11-18 at 01:32, Armin Bauer wrote: > On reason that could produce duplicates is the way multisync works... if > it encounters changes on both sides it will duplicate the contact so > that the user can delete the contact he does not want to have on one > side. so if for some reason multisync thinks that a lot of the contacts > are modified on both (this could be if you did not sync for a long time) > it will produce a lot of duplicates. > > Multisync is writen to no interfere with the user. so there are (almost) > no popup boxes or stuff like this. > > Armin > > On Mon, 2003-11-17 at 20:47, S. Anthony Sequeira wrote: > > On Mon, 2003-11-17 at 17:11, Redeeman wrote: > > > you are the hero! 173 contacts saved! would have taken me ages to > > > recreate, from now on i will make vcard backups of it :D > > > > > > On Mon, 2003-11-17 at 17:32, guenther wrote: > > > > > i played with multisync, and it syncs, but duplicates, not a big deal, i > > > > > just removed the duplicates, but that showed up to be deleting > > > > > everything, as it showed them twice only, and it synced my workstation > > > > > like that too, so now i have no contacts, i though "ok, i will just look > > > > > at my backup archive", i made a bzip2 of my ~/evolution. in that dir i > > > > > see local/contacts, and there are some files there, but it doesent work > > > > > just to copy them from my bzip2 into ~/evolution. why? is it saved in > > > > > gconf? how do i recover? (if its possible) > > > > I'm sorry to hear that you have had problems. I can assure you that it > > works for me. Th duplicates I had were the contacts that had 'drifted' > > on one machine. For instance, one had a new phone number, another had a > > new email address. I love this feature. Anyway, to point out that at > > least my experiences with Multisync are positive. > > > > [...] > > _______________________________________________ > evolution maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution -- Regards, Redeeman () ascii ribbon campaign - against html e-mail /\ - against microsoft attachments _______________________________________________ evolution maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution
