[jp] Dumping and Merging Palm DBs

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  • Lukas Ruf ruf at rawip.org
    Tue Feb 27 15:06:00 EST 2007

     

    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
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