>>>>> Thomas DeWeese writes:
>> 3) It always does a full sync, rather than a fast sync. This
>> is true whether I use SyncBBDB as a PilotManager conduit or use
>> bootstrap from the command line (which I prefer).
>> 4) Running from the command line (bootstrap) runs fine, but
>> gives an error message of "Can't use an undefined value as a
>> symbol reference at SyncUtil/StandAloneHost.pm line 89." at the
>> end each time. Has it left something unfinished, perhaps this
>> is why it never does a fast sync?
> Yes, this is the problem. it's trying to update it's prefs
> file in it's conduit dir. It should print the prefs file it's
> trying to use when it starts up, probably the directory doesn't
> exist. I'll see about making it a little clearer what's
> happening.
OK, I see what it is looking for now. It is trying to put the prefs
file in ~/.bbdb/prefs, but since ~/.bbdb is a file and not a directory
it fails. I've changed one line in SyncUtil/StandAloneHost.pm to make
it use ~/.bbdb.dir/ for the conduit directory instead. Now the script
exits normally. It starts with the messages:
ATTN: Prefs: /u/kels/.bbdb.dir/prefs
ATTN: Please start HotSync now.
ATTN: Doing Full Sync!
I thought that that means it is doing a slow sync, but it hasn't
changed now that it finds the prefs file. It is only actually
transferring the changed records, the bulk of the time a sync takes is
downloading the pilot addresses, while it prints the message:
Reading Pilot Addresses [full sync]: 37%
etc. Does this full sync mean it is still not doing everything quite
right, and not able to do a fast sync? Can this be speeded up any
more (right now it is ~2 minutes for a 148k AddressDB.pdb file,
PILOTRATE=115200)?
>> 6) I'm not always fond of having a BBDB record split into
>> multiple Palm records. I can see why this makes sense as a
>> general conversion method, but it would be nice to be able to
>> override this behavior. For example, it would be nice to be
>> able to set a custom field to "work address" or similar and
>> have that include the 2nd address from a BBDB entry. Is there
>> any way to do this currently?
> No unless you are willing to live with the address as 'note'
> in BBDB. Otherwise SyncBBDB would have tomunge and unmunge the
> data into a string and back to an address record. This is hard,
> and will almost always have problems with the address format
> used in some country in bangladesh.
Well, putting a BBDB address into a Palm note is straightforward, but
parsing the reverse is nontrivial. So it would lose the full two-way
syncronization capability. Maybe a BBDB address could be put into a
Palm note, but if the Palm note is modified it would have to revert to
a BBDB note. But that is probably overcomplicated and maybe hard to
do keeping track of the fields in the pilot-id record.
> If you are willing to have it treated as a string simply make
> it a note in BBDB.
This sounds like the right solution for me in cases where I would like
a single record for a person.
> Hope this helps.
Very much, thanks!
--
Kelsey Jordahl
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