On Tue, 9 Jun 2020, Philippe Auphelle wrote:

PhA,

As Bob Dole responded when asked by a reporter whether he wore briefs or
boxers, "depends."

What's your OS? What's your handheld? What connection channel are you using?
Did it work before? Have you tried pilot-link?

Rich

Hi Rich,

Thanks for your superfast reply.

:-)

• It worked before (for many years, actually). I figured out the problem
  today because an appointment I just made (in the Palm) didn't show up in
  j-pilot after the sync, but it could have started a few days ago without my
  noticing.
• All others databases do sync properly, it's just Datebook that seems
  to be messed up somehow.
• Currently running Ubuntu 18.4.4 x64, jpilot 1.8.2 (latest Ubuntu
  installed / updated)
• Palm Tx, PalmOS 5.49028
• In j-Pilot Prefs, all Palm files are config'd for "Palm OS < 5.2.1",
  though. I don't think I ever changed those since I installed 18.4 LTS (and
  it worked before).
• Never used pilot-link directly (and just skimming thru the man pages
  kinda scares me right now!)
• Connected through an USB port.
• In case this matters, I have FileZ installed on the Palm. It shows no
  file attrs checked on DatebookDB details, but I have no idea whether this
  is significant as I never checked it up for this file before.
• Finally, I have had a few Ubuntu crashes lately - not j-pilot related
  in any way, but j-pilot was up when they happened, it always is, config'd
  to autostart at startup time.

Thanks for your help and time!    /PhA.

On Tue, 9 Jun 2020 at 17:01, Rich Shepard rshepard@appl-ecosys.com wrote:

Rich,

PS:

• In the screen log, I have "slow_sync_application: Unable to open file:
  DatebookDB", but
• later in the j-pilot screen log, I see "Fetching 'DatebookDB' (Creator
  ID 'date')... OK".

On Tue, 9 Jun 2020 at 17:01, Rich Shepard rshepard@appl-ecosys.com wrote:

On Tue, 9 Jun 2020, Philippe Auphelle wrote:

Phillippe,

I use a Palm TX and set the databases for PalmOS > 5.2.1 to match the TX.

The PalmOS 5.x should use Calendar rather than Datebook; can't get rid of
the latter, though. Here, CalendarDB-PDat.pdb currently holds 191KB and DatebookDB.pdb
is 360B.

Is this usb: or a tty-specific one?

Shouldn't matter.

I recommend doing a soft reset on the TX to reboot it without clearing all
data. Press and release the reset button in the tiny hole. A hard reset is
done by holding down the power button while pressing the reset button. If
worse comes to worse a hard reset followed by restore handheld should do the
trick.

Regards,

Rich

Rich,

all data.

That fixed it!
After I double checked the problem was gone, I followed your other
suggestion and switched all databases to the "> 5.2.1" format.
Yet another sync confirmed all was still fine, so I'm good now.

Thanks for all your help!  /Ph.

On Tue, 9 Jun 2020 at 18:07, Rich Shepard rshepard@appl-ecosys.com wrote:

On Wed, 10 Jun 2020, Philippe Auphelle wrote:

Philippe,

I'm glad that I could help you.

Stay well,

Rich