[maemo-users] Fresh start [Re: syncevolution]

[From: Phillip N.]

Hi.

El mié, 25-06-2008 a las 23:02 +0200, Patrick Ohly escribió:
> On Wed, 2008-06-25 at 16:20 -0400, Phillip N. wrote:
> > Ive installed version 0.8 (alpha1), wich seems to work well.
> > I just have some questions:
> > 
> > 1.- I see the events in date (the pimlico program), and not in
> > gpe-calendar. Is is suposted to be this way?
> 
> Yes. It synchronizes the calendar managed by the Evolution Data Server,
> which is used by Dates, but not GPE.
> 
> >  If not how do i make it
> > write to the gpe-calendar database?
> 
> Someone would have to write a SyncEvolution backend for GPE. It's not
> particularly difficult, but I don't have the time to do it myself.
> 

Grate. Thanks for the aclaration. Ill try to get some time and try to do
it.

> > 2.- I just messup almost all our meeting in the office calendar
> > (woops!), wich im restoring, by hand.
> 
> You didn't say whether that was a software or user error. If you think
> it was SyncEvolution's fault, then please let me know.

Know i know what happened.
I sync. and all event were messed up becouse of the timezone. (im
-GMT4).
So i delete the dates database and sync again, and i think it was
two-ways, so i guess it a user problem (doh!).

Now, i finish setup my timezone (im really -4 now in the device), and
sync again. and the items are still not in sync with the timezone.
I see items with this comming from the server:
DTEND:20080627T230000Z              
DTSTART:20080627T193000Z 

Is that in the correct format? i mean, i guess the Z means its GMT+00,
and my n800 has the correct timezone. I guess there is two options:
a.- problem of the server sending the wrong time or timezone.
b.- the timezone support is not 100% perfect?


> 
> On this occasion let me point out that SyncEvolution does a complete
> database dump in vCard resp. iCalendar format before each sync. When
> using the "logdir" option one can keep the last n of these dumps around.
> If some major goof-up happens, one can restore from that dump - at least
> with Evolution on the desktop. I haven't tried importing with Dates or
> Contacts. Perhaps I should add an option to do it via syncevolution
> itself.
> 

Thanks for the tip, i got the file. Ill try on saturday restore the
events using this. :) (lets cross the fingers)


> >  Is there a way to tell syncevolution to download all event and put them
> > on the database, so have a fresh start? Ive try to specify sync=slow and
> > change the deviceId.
> 
> --sync refresh-from-server resp. refresh-from-client seems to be what
> you want:
> 
> $ syncevolution --sync ?
> --sync
>    requests a certain synchronization mode:
>      two-way             = only send/receive changes since last sync
>      slow                = exchange all items
>      refresh-from-client = discard all remote items and replace with
>                            the items on the client
>      refresh-from-server = discard all local items and replace with
>                            the items on the server
>      one-way-from-client = transmit changes from client
>      one-way-from-server = transmit changes from server
>      none (or disabled)  = synchronization disabled
> 

Thanks!