Dear Nicholas, thanks very much for the help. > Nicholas Piper <nick-moongroup at nickpiper.co.uk> [2007-02-26 01:17]: > > On Sat, 24 Feb 2007, Lukas Ruf wrote: > > > 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. > > Google shows me > http://www.vromans.org/johan/software/sw_palmkeyring.html and > http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.modules/2007/01/msg52786.html > I'll try to figure out how I can make use of them. > > > > - 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? > > How did you merge? Maybe you could use (as 'TR' suggested) a > de-duplication tool after? > Well, for any strange reason, I have not detected the loss of information when I had to switch away from Linux. > Depending if all your record UIDs are correct, you could only pull > in records from your old pdb's which have UIDs that you don't > currently have? > I'll check. Thanks for the help! wbr, Lukas -- Lukas Ruf <http://www.lpr.ch> | Ad Personam rbacs <http://wiki.lpr.ch> | Restaurants, Bars and Clubs Raw IP <http://www.rawip.org> | Low Level Network Programming Style <http://email.rawip.org> | How to write emails <http://lists.lpr.ch/muttprint> | muttprint mailing list
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