Art Alexion on 14 Sep 2005 13:01:29 -0000


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Re: [PLUG] Palm syncing


Jeff Abrahamson wrote:

>On Tue, Sep 13, 2005 at 09:11:41AM -0400, Art Alexion wrote:
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>
>>Gnome-pilot comes pre-installed with conduits to Evolution.  IMO,
>>Evolution is a pig.  As an Outlook substitute, it includes many of
>>outlook's annoyances as well as its functionality.  It was munging
>>my addresses and I don't know if it was gnome-pilot or the Evolution
>>conduits to blame. Fortunately, I have good back ups on the Clie's
>>memory stick.
>>    
>>
>
>It was modifying your data?!  What was it changing?
>  
>

It was parsing stuff wrong.  First names in title fields, addresses in
company names, some field data just dropped -- that sort of thing.

(the specific changes, I don't remember as it has been a while since it
happened, and after happening twice, I stopped using it for two-way
syncing.)

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