Re: Migrating PocketPC contacts to OPIE

On Wed, Jan 17, 2007 at 07:44:20PM +0200, Paul Sokolovsky wrote:
> 1. Use generic sync framework, like OpenSync.
> 2. Try to find existing adhoc convertor.
> 3. Try to write own adhoc convertor.

I am surprised you did not try an intermediate format like vcard and
ical. Using both you could take care of contacts, calendar and todos.

At least that is what I did when I migrated from PalmOS to Opie (back in
the day).

The vcard and ical formats are well supported by scripting languages and
usually you can coax things like jpilot and Opie to either export or
import these formats.

I noticed that you didnot employ synce at all. Any reason?

> 1. After I looked more closely at OPIE Contacts' import capabilities, I
> confirmed that it handles VCard format pretty well, and the way to
> generalize the conversion util is to add VCard support to it. This
> will work (somehow) for GPE too.

Ah, further study. I see.

E

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