Jppy: How to export contacts from jpilot/jppy with there photos (images) ?

[Nicholas Piper]

nb,

On Wed, 23 Dec 2009, nb wrote:

> Thank you very much for your answer.
> In fact I'm not familiar with python.
> So for the first item, not seeing private records in jppy plugin in
> jpilot or in jppy, I tried the following :
> 
> I have modified jp_lookup. Here's what I've done
> 
> 
> #records = env.addressBook.records(search=' '.join(args))
> records = env.addressBook.records(privates=True)
> 
> After that jp_lookup -c gives me all records, including the private
> ones, inv vcard format. That's good but I still don't see my private
> records neither in jppy, nor in the jpilot plugin. I think I haven't
> understood everything.

You've not missed anything - actually that's an oversight/not
implemented yet. The GUI does not have anywhere you can select to view
private entries.

Probably fairly easy to add, so mostly an oversight as I don't use
them.

Maybe over Christmas I could add this if I do any work on jppy.

> For the second, I have seen your example, but since the new jp_lookup
> command gives me the file I need, I thing I'll not go that way.
> 
> In fact, the remaining problem, is that I can't see, and thus can't
> modify my private records in jppy and the jpilot plugin.
> 
> I'm using Debian unstable. Martin f. Krafft says in the README.debian
> file :
> 
> jppy uses the Contacts-PAdd database instead of the AddressDB database.
> Contacts-PAdd is provided by PalmOS from version 5 and up, which also
> provide
> AddressDB for backwards compatibility. If you want to make use of all
> the
> extended features and fields made possible by Contacts-PAdd, please go
> to
> J-Pilot's preferences windows, choose the Conduits tab, deselect "Sync
> address" and enable "Sync jppy".
> 
> This doesn't work for me. If I do that, there's no more sync of my
> contacts with the palm.
> So I'm going to report a bug for the Debian package jppy-jpilot-plugins

You're probably using jpilot 1.6.2.8, which natively supports
Contacts-PAdd (since 1.6.0). This means you don't need to select "Sync
jppy". Keep "Sync address", but check that in the jpilot
Preferences->Address you've selected "Use Contacts database"

> I forgot, vcards contain the photos encoded and I could decode them.

Do you need any more there, or is that enough for you?

 Nick
 
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