Re: [SyncEvolution] SyncEvolution and N900 with Evolution - Sporadic addressbook update oddness

On Sun, 2010-05-09 at 03:25 +0100, Jeff wrote: > I am currently testing Contact migration. I expect simple > add/update/remove and conflict handling will work fine so chose to start > with testing the IM fields. There is an existing bug related to > some of the non-standard fields used by Maemo to track bindings between > IM contacts and people contacts For what it's worth, I don't think that > bug is still a bug from what I can tell - I plan to review it and test > it more though. I'm not sure whether this bug is still relevant in the N900. > Question: > > The wiki (http://syncevolution.org/wiki/linux-desktop) says > syncevolution SHOULD work with Evolution 2.24 and later.... > > Has anyone tried it with version 2.26.x ? I'm only using it with 2.28. > The reason I ask is, the symptoms I'm seeing almost seem like they could > be caused by a bug in the evolution ui losing it's link to the evolution > data server. That is mostly likely the reason, given that restarting Evolution fixes the problem. > My current thought is to try upgrading evolution (and of course it's > data server) to the latest (version 2.6.30)...this might pose other > problems if (as the wiki mentions) the EDS is no longer backward > compatible.... There haven't been relevant changes recently, so migrating should be safe. But note that you may not be able to fall back unless you copy your .evolution directory first and restore it before falling back.