November 24th, 2010
Things That Make Adam Want To Stab Himself In The Face, pt. 1
eGroupware synchronization. It has this trick of getting so frustratingly close to working. Using syncevolution with my n900, I can get to the point that the sync operation from the phone happily reports success and shows 89 contacts transferred to the server…where they apparently wind up in /dev/null, because when I log in to the web front end with the same user, those 89 contacts sure don’t show up in the contacts view. Where did they go? Nooooobody knows…
4 Responses to “Things That Make Adam Want To Stab Himself In The Face, pt. 1”
Use the Source, Luke.
Ans I’ll see you in 6 years when you’ve figured it out =)
By kitgerrits November 25th, 2010 at 4:10 am
hi Adam, I know nothing about this egroupware stuff but what I can say is that syncing my n900 gave me lots of headaches too ! I only managed to do it with syncml-ds-tool over usb, no way to sync it over bluetooth with syncml-ds-tool or syncevolution though I can send files to the phone via bluetooth so not a pairing issue…
By shikamaru November 25th, 2010 at 2:57 pm
I don’t bother with cable/bt sync any more, it’s pointless when there’s ‘cloud’ (i.e. TCP client/server) syncing systems. As I’ve written before I use Google but would dearly like to get off it and use my own server so Google doesn’t have my contact and calendar data.
By adamw November 25th, 2010 at 3:09 pm
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