Hi Andrew,
Finally I came to this and I am writing with a success report and a couple of questions.
Palm Desktop 3, 4 and 6 can export only some strange *.dba format. I found some guidelines to import it in Yahoo! and export it as Outlook, but I never found this function in Yahoo! Fortunately after some research I found DIMEX (http://www.linkesoft.de/dimex/ - in German only..., USD 19,-) - I had to downgrade to Palm 4 and DIMEX exported a beautiful .ics file.
There started the trouble. As I could not understand what happens, if I upload it via the web interface, I gave it to Sunbird to import it. Either Sunbird got stuck or I was a bit impatient, but I thought it takes long (more than 5 minutes) and stopped it in Sunbird and did it again in iCal. iCal did it, but I ended up with duplicates. I thought the events have unique ID and will not duplicate?
I imported about 7 000 events for a 10 years period. Is this too much for DAViCal? Because while playing with two Sunbirds and an iCal in 10-15 minutes they somehow messed up and stopped synchronizing - I had them all display the same calendar, on the same day and tried to change events here and there to see how they update each other. Now the final state is that each of them has some event which the other does not, and they do not get synchronized and the iCal totally lost all events for this day. Looking directly into the database, I can see the events.
Do you have any experience in this direction?
Thank you,
Iavor
PS Shall I put the Palm 3 migration instructions in the Wiki?
On 16.09.2010, at 08:07, Andrew McMillan wrote:
> On Wed, 2010-09-15 at 16:15 +0200, Iv Ray wrote:
>> Can anyone help with some tips how to import Palm Desktop 3.x calendar
>> (going many years in the past, which should be preserved) into
>> DAViCal?
>
> Hi Iv,
>
> Can you export it as some kind of nearly-VCALENDAR format? Is it
> possible to import that into something like Lightning, or Evolution, and
> then either re-export as a real VCALENDAR so you can upload it into
> DAViCal through the web interface? Perhaps even 'sed' would be enough
> to do the transformation.
>
> Just as an aside I would recommend keeping it in an archive calendar,
> rather than in the main one. Several CalDAV clients will do regular
> PROPFIND requests across the whole calendar which will get slower and
> more bandwidth intensive as there are more entries, even though they
> don't transfer the actual calendar.
>
> It's good to see more use of the proposed WebDAV Syncrhonisation
> extension now (it's used in the latest Lightning) which reduce this
> communication a lot.
>
> Cheers,
> Andrew.
> --
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> andrew (AT) morphoss (DOT) com +64(272)DEBIAN
> A handful of friends is worth more than a wagon of gold.
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
Finally I came to this and I am writing with a success report and a couple of questions.
Palm Desktop 3, 4 and 6 can export only some strange *.dba format. I found some guidelines to import it in Yahoo! and export it as Outlook, but I never found this function in Yahoo! Fortunately after some research I found DIMEX (http://www.linkesoft.de/dimex/ - in German only..., USD 19,-) - I had to downgrade to Palm 4 and DIMEX exported a beautiful .ics file.
There started the trouble. As I could not understand what happens, if I upload it via the web interface, I gave it to Sunbird to import it. Either Sunbird got stuck or I was a bit impatient, but I thought it takes long (more than 5 minutes) and stopped it in Sunbird and did it again in iCal. iCal did it, but I ended up with duplicates. I thought the events have unique ID and will not duplicate?
I imported about 7 000 events for a 10 years period. Is this too much for DAViCal? Because while playing with two Sunbirds and an iCal in 10-15 minutes they somehow messed up and stopped synchronizing - I had them all display the same calendar, on the same day and tried to change events here and there to see how they update each other. Now the final state is that each of them has some event which the other does not, and they do not get synchronized and the iCal totally lost all events for this day. Looking directly into the database, I can see the events.
Do you have any experience in this direction?
Thank you,
Iavor
PS Shall I put the Palm 3 migration instructions in the Wiki?
On 16.09.2010, at 08:07, Andrew McMillan wrote:
> On Wed, 2010-09-15 at 16:15 +0200, Iv Ray wrote:
>> Can anyone help with some tips how to import Palm Desktop 3.x calendar
>> (going many years in the past, which should be preserved) into
>> DAViCal?
>
> Hi Iv,
>
> Can you export it as some kind of nearly-VCALENDAR format? Is it
> possible to import that into something like Lightning, or Evolution, and
> then either re-export as a real VCALENDAR so you can upload it into
> DAViCal through the web interface? Perhaps even 'sed' would be enough
> to do the transformation.
>
> Just as an aside I would recommend keeping it in an archive calendar,
> rather than in the main one. Several CalDAV clients will do regular
> PROPFIND requests across the whole calendar which will get slower and
> more bandwidth intensive as there are more entries, even though they
> don't transfer the actual calendar.
>
> It's good to see more use of the proposed WebDAV Syncrhonisation
> extension now (it's used in the latest Lightning) which reduce this
> communication a lot.
>
> Cheers,
> Andrew.
> --
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> andrew (AT) morphoss (DOT) com +64(272)DEBIAN
> A handful of friends is worth more than a wagon of gold.
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------