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 > _______________________________________________ > Public archival of this list without permission is prohibited. > http://lists.jpilot.org/mailman/listinfo/jpilot > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.jpilot.org/pipermail/jpilot/attachments/20080513/e14d20b9/attachment-0001.htm
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