Ronan wrote:
> Solving the Palm sync thing would make lots of people happy.
Seconded. But my mileage has varied; and I've tried most of the
approaches that have been mentioned on this list.
> Several hacks are floating around, including at least three variants
> called bbdb-pilot.el and at least two that work as plugins with
> PilotManager (http://www.moshpit.org/pilotmgr/).
Even (sic) the bbdb-pilot.el that JWZ posted had bugs. Has anyone
tried to fix them?
> I think Thomas DeWeese's SyncBBDB is probably the closest to the
> right solution; it's a PilotManager plugin but will also work
> standalone.
My experience with SyncBBDB has not been good, maybe because I use
2.00.06; it duplicated a load of records in the Palm and corrupted
some of them. I carefully removed the duplications (which were of the
form of one record for Joe Bloggs + phone number and another for Joe
Bloggs + net address, for each single Joe Bloggs record with both in
the BB) and synced again and all seemed well; a subsequent sync after
a few changes at the BBDB end and the problem came back (at which
point I restored a backup and haven't synced since!).
I'm not in a particular hurry to move to BBDB 2.2 - but what were the
advantages again? Does it work with Gnu Emacs 19.33 (the oldest
version I regularly have cause to use)? Has menu support been
implemented for Gnu Emacs yet?
I do remember vaguely hearing about a bbdb-merge being part of 2.2 -
does this work reliably? If so, surely any sync with external formats
such as the Palm would best be based on the same technology, surely?
Patrick
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