[jp] Used to be both copies were kept...

On Wed, September 5, 2007 12:22 pm, Karl Schmidt wrote:
> I've used many palm devices with jpilot over the years  - now I've
> experienced something of
> a mystery: If I make a change to path my Treo680 and the same memo in
> jpilot - the latest
> change is duplicated on both - but it used to be there would be two copies
> - one of each
> change. Is there a setting or something else I've overlooked?
>
You should have two copies.  It may be that since MemosDB is not a "real"
Palm database in the 680 and MemosDB-PMem is there is a problem.  I'll
have to do some testing.

> I've lost data a couple of times due to this.
>
That's not good.

> There are two settings I don't understand in jpilot
>
> File/preferences/settings/Show deleted records (default NO)

These are described in docs/plugin.html, BTW.

If you delete a record in jpilot it gets marked for deletion on the Palm. 
If you check this you can still see it in jpilot and it should be marked a
different color.  This is handy if you want to undelete it, you can just
hit the copy button.

> and
> File/preferences/settings/Show modified deleted records (default NO)
>
A modified deleted record is a record that gets modified in jpilot that
exists on the Palm (at the last sync anyway).  The delete part means that
it is scheduled to get deleted and replaced on the Palm by the new copy. 
The original record (now the modified deleted one) gets kept to compare to
the Palm record.  If its the same then the Palm copy didn't change and can
be deleted.  If its not the same then both copies are kept and you end up
with the duplicate.

> I have both clear... I would try these if I knew what they are supposed to
> do..
>
They are just for debugging/undeleting purposes left over from the days of
fewer users.

> ,.,.,.
>
> I also think I may have had long memos truncated???
>
This very well may be the case.  The legacy Memos were limited to 4k,
although later Palms could have more than 4k and be uneditable in the
Palm.

I need to find the time to release my code for Contacts and Memos.

Judd