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- <chapter id="config-sync">
- <title>Setting up your synchronization system</title>
- <para>
- Synchronization presents you with two issues you'll need to
- address.
- <simplelist>
- <member>
- Your computer needs to recognize and access your handheld.
- At this time, <application>Evolution</application> only
- supports Palm-OS devices like the PalmPilot and the
- Handspring Visor.
- </member>
- <member>
- You should decide what sort of synchronization behavior you
- want.
- </member>
- </simplelist>
-
- </para>
-
- <para>
- If you haven't used a handheld device with your computer
- before, you'll need to run the GNOME <application>Control
- Center</application> and make sure that <application>Pilot
- Link</application> is properly configured. Then, select the
- <application>Evolution</application> <glossterm
- linkend="conduit">conduits</glossterm> under the
- <guilabel>Pilot Conduits</guilabel> section of the Control
- Center.
- </para>
-
- <para>
- Once your computer and your Palm-OS device are talking happily
- to each other, you'll have to decide what exactly you want
- them to do with the data they exchange. To enable a conduit, click the
- <guibutton>Enable</guibutton> to enable it and click
- <guibutton>Settings</guibutton>. Your options may vary
- depending on the conduit, but typically they will be:
-
- <variablelist>
- <varlistentry>
- <term>Disabled </term>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- Do nothing.
- </para>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
-
- <varlistentry>
- <term>Synchronize</term>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- Copy new data from the computer to the handheld, and
- from the handheld to the computer. Remove items
- that were on both systems but have been deleted on
- one.
- </para>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
-
- <varlistentry>
- <term>Copy From Pilot</term>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- If there is any new data on the the handheld device,
- copy it to the computer.
- </para>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
-
- <varlistentry>
- <term>Copy To Pilot</term>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- Copy new data from the computer to the handheld.
- </para>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
-
- <varlistentry>
- <term>Merge From Pilot</term>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- Copy new data from the handheld to the computer, and
- remove any information from the computer that has
- been deleted on the handheld.
- </para>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
-
- <varlistentry>
- <term>Merge To Pilot</term>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- Copy new data from the computer to the handheld, and
- remove any information from the handheld that has
- been deleted on the computer.
- </para>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
- </variablelist>
- </para>
-
- <para>
- Select a behavior for each conduit available. For the most
- part, you'll want to stick with
- <guilabel>Synchronize</guilabel>. Then, put your handheld on
- its cradle and press the synchronization button.
- </para>
-
-
- <para>
- <tip>
- <title>Data Loss Prevention</title>
- <para>
- It's always a good idea to make a backup. To do that,
- make a copy of your <systemitem>
- <filename>~/evolution</filename> </systemitem> directory.
- </para>
- </tip>
- </para>
-
- </chapter>
-
-
-
-