I understand. I haven't found the option either in the Fedora 8 version nor in a self compiled version from http://jpilot.org/jpilot-0.99.9.tar.gz. I checked out the CVS, but I didn't find a configure script. Which version has Contacts support and where can I download this version? Best regards. Patrick Hemmen Judd Montgomery wrote: > On Thu, May 01, 2008 at 08:31:09PM +0200, Patrick Hemmen wrote: >> I have contacts with Addr(W) and Addr(H) and contacts only with Addr(H). >> After a sync with J-Pilot, Addr(H) were deleted from contacts with two >> addresses and Addr(H) switched to Addr(W) from contacts with one >> address. Now I have only contacts with Addr(W). >> J-Pilot 0.99.9 from Fedora 8 >> >> Thanks for your help. >> Patrick Hemmen >> > Ok, now this makes sense. The list was getting private address confused with private records, > which is something different. > > Older Palm's had an application called Address instead of Contacts. The Address database in > the Palm only had 1 address possible. When Palm wrote Contacts to replace Address they wrote > a compatibility layer to handle syncing of Addresses into the Contacts database. It would > drop the extra addresses since there was no where to put them. > > You have to go into preferences in jpilot and tell it to use Contacts. I am not sure if that > version of jpilot had Contacts support added yet. It depends on what Fedora decided to > compile. > > As far as how to recover your extra fields, I am not sure that you can. > > Judd
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