Q) How do I preserve my Contacts, Calendar etc information when
re-flashing to a later snapshot?
A) Bearing in mind that this is early-access software, we do not
recommend that you store large volumes of valuable contact or calendar
information in your phone. However, some people have used the following
procedures for their most immediate contacts.
If you're using a pre-ASU snapshot, all such files are stored in
~/.evolution (/home/root/.evolution), and are in "Evolution Database
Format"; you could in theory copy this information to your desktop and
access it via Evolution or EDS (or vice versa).
If you're using ASU, this information is stored [WHERE???], and is
stored in a QTopia-specific format.
Copy the appropriated directories someplace safe BEFORE re-flashing the
phone. Either scp -r them from the phone to your desktop, or, cp -r them
to the micro-SD card (assuming you put the card in and that it still has
space): cp -r [directories listed above] /media/card/.
Then re-flash the phone, and copy the files back.
Note: the format of these files is subject to change.
Or, [THIS IS UNTESTED] download the QTopia Desktop and synchronize your
phone with your desktop. The download site is http://trolltech.com/developer/downloads/qtopia/desktopdownloads/ for
common platforms; for unsupported platforms, you could maybe get the
"QTopia Open Source Download" and extract and build the QTopia Desktop
from that.
If anybody knows the location of the files that QT contacts uses, or has
actually tried the QTopia Desktop with the new ASU image, please pipe
in! (Please don't guess, because you might cause somebody to waste a lot
of time, or lose data :-))
