Re: [PilotMgr] SyncAB CSV Tools?

[Erik van Oosten <evoosten@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Andreas,

> # WARNING: ABfiltercat renumbers the remaining records from 0
> # and up. This is needed because records created on the pilot
> # tend to have numbers that are overwritten by the ABpq script.
> 
> How will SyncAB react on this? Won't this create havoc? Or does it
> simply re-sort my Pilot's entries?

SyncAB doesn't care to much. Sometimes you see that an entry
that is deleted and added in the same synchronization. But
that is the only visible effect. Under some very weird
cicumstances (double edits and removals and more complicated
things like that) it is possible that SyncAB tries to remove a
non-existent entry on the Pilot over and over again. This not
harmfull, but difficult to get rid of (you need to hand edit
the shadow database SyncAB keeps).
I use these scripts for more then a year now and I have never
seen records disapearing, and I don't see how they could.
I would worry a bit more when you use multiple programs to
sync the addressbook to (more shadow databases). Unless of
course these programs also work via the .csvaddr file.

I guess stuff would be more stable/future proof when you
actually prevent changing identifiers of the .csvaddr entries.
However, that would mean a serious programming effort. I
thought about it, but I didn't feel like going that far.

In the addressbook application on the Pilot you will not
notice anything, it sorts your entries alphabetically anyway.

Greetings,
    Erik.


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