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[Vinc Duran]

Wow. I had no idea Qtopia could sync with Outlook. That's going to make my
life much easier.

On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 12:45 PM, Lorn Potter <lpotter at trolltech.com> wrote:

> On Tuesday 20 May 2008, community-request at lists.openmoko.org wrote:
> > Michael Shiloh wrote:
> > > I've just posted about the software update that has been discussed here
> > > today, so I figured I'd take this opportunity to tell you all about my
> > > blog:
> >
> > Cool!
> >
> > Here is another FAQ entry (with a few holes to be filled in):
> >
> > ------------------------------------------------------------
> >
> > Q) How do I preserve my Contacts, Calendar etc information when
> > re-flashing to a later snapshot?
> >
> > A) Bearing in mind that this is early-access software, we do not
> > recommend that you store large volumes of valuable contact or calendar
> > information in your phone. However, some people have used the following
> > procedures for their most immediate contacts.
> >
> > If you're using a pre-ASU snapshot, all such files are stored in
> > ~/.evolution (/home/root/.evolution), and are in "Evolution Database
> > Format"; you could in theory copy this information to your desktop and
> > access it via Evolution or EDS (or vice versa).
> >
> > If you're using ASU, this information is stored [WHERE???], and is
> > stored in a QTopia-specific format.
> >
> > Copy the appropriated directories someplace safe BEFORE re-flashing the
> > phone. Either scp -r them from the phone to your desktop, or, cp -r them
> > to the micro-SD card (assuming you put the card in and that it still has
> > space): cp -r [directories listed above] /media/card/.
> >
> > Then re-flash the phone, and copy the files back.
> >
> > Note: the format of these files is subject to change.
> >
> > Or, [THIS IS UNTESTED] download the QTopia Desktop and synchronize your
> > phone with your desktop. The download site is
> > http://trolltech.com/developer/downloads/qtopia/desktopdownloads/ for
> > common platforms; for unsupported platforms, you could maybe get the
> > "QTopia Open Source Download" and extract and build the QTopia Desktop
> > from that.
> >
> >
> > -----------------------------------------------------------------
> >
> > If anybody knows the location of the files that QT contacts uses, or has
> > actually tried the QTopia Desktop with the new ASU image, please pipe
> > in! (Please don't guess, because you might cause somebody to waste a lot
> > of time, or lose data :-))
>
> Qtopia contacts are stored in the sqlite database. They can also be copied
> to
> the sim card.
>
> Qtopia Desktop is too old and will not work with Qtopia version 4.
>
> Currently Qtopia will only sync to Outlook (I think). Someone could write
> plugins for others.
>
>
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> > Ian Darwin
>
>
>
> --
> Lorn 'ljp' Potter
> Software Engineer, Systems Group, MES, Trolltech
>
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