I've been trying to use Plucker Desktop on OS X (Tiger) to get Web content into my Treo. I have had no problem with setting up the channels in the Plucker Desktop UI. I kick off the update and I see the app retrieve and process the page(s), follow all appropriate links, etc -- everything works fine UP UNTIL it tries to save the data out to the relevant Palm install directory for the first channel. The "Channel Update Progress" window stops at the "Conversion complete. Writing output file..." step; the list of "Channels updated" never budges past 0, and I have to hit the Stop button. When I do hit Stop, the new data has not been placed in the Palm install directory. And since it doesn't finish the first channel, it doesn't move on to any of the other channels.
I've looked through the log and found that Plucker Desktop is writing to Library/Plucker/channels/[channel name]. (In the log, this is after "Writing out collected data" and before a bunch of lines beginning with "Converting ...".) If I go and find the new pdb file there and copy it to the install directory myself, it looks fine (although graphics don't seem to be present). So it doesn't look like there's anything wrong with the distiller. What I'd like to do is either a) get the Plucker Desktop issue resolved so that I can easily update all my channels at once and have the files go into the install directory without any manual intervention, or b) learn how to kick off the update process via a cron job so I can write a script that automates the update process. (Ideally I'd like to keep using the UI to define subscriptions.) Any thoughts? Anything I should look for in the ini file? Thanks, Mark _______________________________________________ Public archival of this list without permission is prohibited. http://lists.plkr.org/mailman/listinfo/plucker-list
