[jp] Migrating from 3.5 Address db too >4.0 Contact DB?

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  • Judd Montgomery judd at jpilot.org
    Mon May 12 18:13:43 EDT 2008

     

    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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