[jp] Dumping and Merging Palm DBs

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  • Lukas Ruf ruf at rawip.org
    Sat Feb 24 15:59:54 EST 2007

     

    Nicholas,
    
    thanks for answering.
    
    > Nicholas Piper <nick-moongroup at nickpiper.co.uk> [2007-02-24 19:19]:
    >
    > On Thu, 22 Feb 2007, Lukas Ruf wrote:
    >
    > > due to business/employment, I had to switch managing my contacts
    > > and datebook entries from Linux/jpilot to Windows.
    >
    > > After a couple months, I have realised that for any strange
    > > reason, previous datebook, addressbook and GNU-keyring entries
    > > disappeared.
    >
    > > Since I have many PDB-backups from previous good-times, I wondered
    > > if there is any toolset related to palm/jpilot that I can use
    > >
    > > - to dump datebook, addressbook and GNU-keyring to stdout
    > > (preferrably one record per line, CVS or similar)
    >
    > I don't know about keyring, but for datebook and addressbook did you
    > try jpilot-dump?
    >
    
    I do use jpilot-dump and created meanwhile a script to linearize the
    records, one-per line.  But I do not know how to dump the keyring
    stuff.
    
    > > - to merge different versions of each of these PDBs
    >
    > Not sure. This would be tricky. What kind of merge do you mean? Just
    > 'combine'? How to determine which records are the same and one of
    > them should be dropped? You could probably do it with some Perl or
    > Python hacking.
    >
    
    That's exactly the problem: many records are duplicated.
    
    Do you know whether I do need to compare field-by-field?
    
    > > - to install by any means addressbook, datebook and GNU-keyring
    > > entries either via stdin or from a ASCII-text-file back to the
    > > palm (Vx).
    >
    > You could beam ical/vcard entries to it? Created a merged pdb and
    > beam/install that? Maybe use a perl or python library to add entries
    > to the jpilot pdb or pc3 file, then sync? (If you edit the pdb,
    > don't sync, I believe you should just then use pilot-xfer -i)
    >
    
    Is there any way to install one record a time?
    
    Thanks!
    
    wbr,
    Lukas
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