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[Palm OS] Sync only partially works
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heathenbastich
2007-11-21 , 06:35
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I've been able to get sync to work (mostly) between Garnet VM and a Windows box ( I failed on my first attempt to my linux box running Ubuntu, gpilot seemed to work at first but would not sync from the handheld back to the PC ).
Calendar, Contacts and Memos all seem to sync just fine both to and from Garnet. This took a bit of futzing with it though...
1. Create an item on the PC
2. sync from PC to garnet - one way
3. Modify the item in Garnet
4. sync from garnet to PC - one way
5. set hotsync to sync instead of just one-way copy.
I had to repeat those steps for each pim app.
At this point I apologize in advance for my rant.
The problem is the ToDo App. I was so thrilled when I heard we could emulate palm apps on our tablets. For so long I had hoped that we would get SOMETHING that would let us reliably sync our mariad lists of contacts, appointments and grocery lists ( although Mtn Dew, Doritos and Microwave dinners shouldn't be all that hard to remember ). My previous attempts using opensync, gpesyncd, and multisync were all exercises in partially working sync tools entirely too frustrating to use, and this comes from someone that has compiled v4l to be able to use my "unsupported" video capture card with mythtv and setup bind to run in a chroot jail because I was bored and wanted to tinker with something.
All this to have my hopes smashed when every single ToDo App I can find for palmos fails miserably at sync'ing from garnet to my PC! This would have been the most important part of the whole Garnet VM for my use. I realize that I was probably foolish to think that all of this would work in a beta release of an emulator and that I should be glad that I at least have a working way to sync what I can, but it still leaves me wanting.
Has anyone had any luck in getting any sort of task/todo app to sync reliably without a mess of scripts and manually deleting duplicate entries? I'm getting very tempted to just start using rsync to replicate text files at this point.
Anyone have any luck with any of the ToDo Apps in Garnet VM?
I have tried Todo+, ToDo2, DateBK6 and none of them seem to create the expected entries in the actual ToDoDB that hotsync connects to.
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