Re: [coldsync-hackers] App info changes

[coldsync-hackers at oldach dot net (Helge Oldach)]

ming deng:
> Daniel Lemire wrote:
> >What puzzles me is that other tools such as my Windows PalmOS deskware 
> >achieve this... or so it seems.
> >
> >Not that I worry about this. coldsync is cool as it is.
> >
> >
> I don't think it will be hard to fix for coldsync. I guess they just 
> forgot there is an appBlock to be synced each time. That data needs to 
> sync whatever it's changed or not, for there is not way to tell whether 
> it is modified or not(correct me if I'm wrong).

Don't forget that this also applies to "Graffiti ShortCuts.prc", "Net
Prefs.prc", "Saved Preferences.prc", and "Unsaved Preferences.prc"
as well. These are resource database which are completely ignored
by coldsync at this moment. However they of course contain valuable
information to restore a broken Palm. There may be others in this class.

I am at this moment just deleting them by means of a very simple fetch
conduit that basically does an unlink($HEADERS{InputDB}):

conduit fetch {
	path: "/home/hmo/.palm/conduits/RemoveDB.pl";
	type: psys/sprf;
	type: psys/pref;
	type: graf/macr;
	type: netl/rsrc;
}

This will force coldsync to blindly restore the databases from the Palm.
It's probably more sensible to not delete them but to move them into
~/.palm/backup/Attic so that there is at least one clean backup copy in
case the sync fails.

Helge

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