Re: BitPim Database Import/Export

"Roger Binns" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.mobile.bitpim.devel
Message-ID <004a01c597ea$c6a76dd0$3501a8c0@rogersqyvr14d3>
> Now that SQLite database files are portable across platforms, is there still 
> a need to export/import BitPim database to a text file?

The need was as a backup you could see - binary data just isn't that convincing.
For example can you verify that a particular entry is in your backup?

It is also useful for transforming data outside of BitPim.  You can dump to
text, edit/chop/add in whatever way, and then put back in again, or send
to someone else.

Admittedly vcard/vcal could perform this somewhat, but you'd have to export
for each type of data.

Finally have a look at something analogous, in the form of Subversion and
their dump files.

Roger


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