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

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  • Y Uanlux yuanlux at gmail.com
    Tue May 13 00:59:31 EDT 2008

     

    On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 8:13 AM, Judd Montgomery <judd at jpilot.org> wrote:
    
    > On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 02:13:00PM -0700, dennisthetiger at chez-vrolet.netwrote:
    > > 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.
    > >
    >
    
    What do you switch to new style? how do you do this switch? What's the
    differency can you see?
    
    
    >
    > > 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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