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  • Nicholas Piper nick-moongroup at nickpiper.co.uk
    Mon Jul 2 05:52:41 EDT 2007

     

    Johan,
    
    On Mon, 02 Jul 2007, Johan Vromans wrote:
    
    > If you use DateBk5 you have the ability to split off a part of your
    > DataBk data in a separate database, the so called history. This makes
    > it possible to maintain a large database with older appointments (that
    > still can be inspected and searched) without affecting the performance
    > of the daily operations. For a clarification: I'm running DateBk5 on a
    > PalmV which is a very old PDA.
    
    > JPilot has much more power and it has no problems with a big database.
    > Ideally, it would be nice if JPilot could deal with the two databases
    > simultaneously. So everything before a specific cut-off date would be
    > in the history (and read-only!) while all newer data would be in the
    > normal DateBook. On screen, it would look like one single database.
    
    > Has anyone ever considered something like this?
    
    I think it's a good idea (but I'm not sure any cut off date is
    required?). It wouldn't *have* to be read-only I think. It might get
    more complicated when jpilot gets new-style Calendar database support,
    as the history database is only ever in the old-style DatebookDB
    format.
    
    A quick-option would be to add a toggle, same as the jpilot Memo
    support has, to switch between the two databases. The sync process can
    easily sync both DatebookDB and the history database. This would be
    read/write for history.
    
     Nick
    
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