Jppy: [SOLVED] Bug report: pilot-xfer cannot fetch ContactsDB-PAdd.pdb

[Norbert Preining]

On Son, 21 Mai 2006, Norbert Preining wrote:
> $ pilot-xfer -f ContactsDB-PAdd
>   Parsing list of files from handheld... done.
>   Fetching 'ContactsDB-PAdd.pdb' ... (12256 bytes)Failed, unable to fetch database from the Palm.
> complete.

I found the solution, and it is quite funny, but could only be seen by
running pilot-xfer via libusb, because then the log files shows the text
actually being transferred.

I found that there were Contacts, those create by Palm /(www.palm.com
etc) which show up in the LIST in Contacts app, but if you click on them
a completely different entry was shown.

So I couldn't delete these entries.

But: Using PhoneMagic I could actually see these entries and could
remove them. Now fetching works, via network, ttyUSB1, and libusb.

If you are interested in the log file running with libusb based on which
I could fix it, please tell me.

Best wishes

Norbert

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