On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 02:13:00PM -0700, dennisthetiger at chez-vrolet.net wrote: > Running current version of Jpilot under Debian Testing. Just discovered that I can change to the newer database style in Jpilot. Just one problem - when I do, it bombs my device, a Tungsten E2. > > So far, I have done the following: > > * Simply switch databases - nothing shows up in the newer database, which as near as I can tell is normal > > * Sync, backup, switch, then sync - data arrives, but then the palm dies, giving an error with a bad address table. On reset, it will bomb again when the device POSTs, forcing a hard reset and a restore-backup. > > Export data from the old database, switch into a CSV file, and then attempt an import from CSV - and the second I hit import, Jpilot dies. (I don't have an error dump on this yet, as I was running straight from X.org.) > > So that said, two questions. > > 1) Is this a knkown issue? > Yes, and its fixed. > 2) Is there a more "correct" version to do the migration? > The easiest thing to do would be to use pilot-xfer to get a sane version of Contacts into jpilot. Go into ~/.jpilot and type "pilot-xfer -p usb: -f ContactsDB-PAdd". After that things should work fine. I suppose if you do backups you could also copy ~/.jpilot/backup/ContactsDB-PAdd.pdb to ~/.jpilot/ and get the same result. Judd
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