On Mon, 2004-08-09 at 08:05, Phil Dibowitz wrote: > On Mon, Aug 09, 2004 at 07:50:16AM +0200, Armin Bauer wrote: > > > Ooookkkkay. After some research I finally got to the bottom of this. > > > > > > It turns out the only entries being duplicated fell into the category of: > > > - had a first name but no last name > > > - Appeared on the phone with the names reversed to the entry on the palm > > > (instead of just appearing in both forms, one of the forms would receive an > > > additional copy each time) > > > > > > > how can the names be reversed if they only have a first name? > > Oops, I wasn't clear. Those are one of TWO categories. One, or the other. Not > both. My appologies. > > > > Once I added a last name of "??" to the 8 entries that had no last name, and > > > got rid of the "almost the same name" on the phone, and then cleared all the > > > duplicates, I now appear to be able to sync without duplicates. > > > > I still would like to fix this bug, there are probably more people out > > there experiencing this. I will be done with my exams tomorrow, so i > > hopefully will find some time to reproduce this bug. > > I just ran into another incarnation of the same bug. I had an entry that had > been synced, and thus was on both sources. I wasn't sure if I'd changed a > phone number for the contact in jpilot and sync'd that to the palm (which > means multisync won't pick up the change), so I did an 'edit' of the number > and erased a digit and re-wrote it on the palm, saved, and did a sync. > > Multisync saw the change, but the phone, for whatever reason got a transfer > interrupted. I checked the entry and it appeared in the same condition. I did > another sync and the entry then appeared twice on the phone (which uses the > irmc plugin). I removed both instances of this entry on the phone and did > another sync, but multisync didn't detect any changes. > > I again did a fake-edit of the entry on the palm and did another sync, and all > worked as expected. > > Which leads me to a question: In the backup plugin there is a button for > "re-backup everything" -- this option doesn't appear in either the palm or the > irmc plugin, but it'd be nice to be able to say "I know you don't see it, but > the palm has changed, check everything"...
in multisync goto "options" and check "show resync button". The resync button always iniates a slow sync. Unfortunatly it can lead to duplicates sometimes... > And as a random feature request, it would be even cooler if we could have a > list of exceptions (don't sync this entry) -- I have a handful of entries on > my palm I don't ever need on my phone even though they have a phone number. > I'm not sure what the UI would be for that -- perhaps just point it to a file > with a one-line-per-entry... with a format of "field: regex" or something, > though that could potentially slow things down a bit... Hmm, I'd have to > ponder that. If there is a clean way to implement this... sure why not. This feature makes sense since a lot of phones can store only a limited amount of entries so selecting the entries you would like would be nice. But we have to make sure that a normal user can do this too and that the gui is still usable... not sure how to achieve this. ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by OSTG. Have you noticed the changes on Linux.com, ITManagersJournal and NewsForge in the past few weeks? Now, one more big change to announce. We are now OSTG- Open Source Technology Group. Come see the changes on the new OSTG site. www.ostg.com _______________________________________________ Multisync-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/multisync-users
