[kdepim-users] restore fails with "*' cannot be read."

[Jason 'vanRijn' Kasper]

On 2/5/08, Robert Widhopf-Fenk <hack at robf.de> wrote:
>
> Hi,


Hi Robert! =:)

I am having an odd problem when trying to restore my Palm V.
> Kpilot complains that it cannot read the backup files, not a
> single one of them, but the files are there and readable.
>
> When I select those files from the DBBackup directory for
> manual installation it works, but my conduits DBs are then
> not correct, i.e. they are empty.


Hmmm. To be perfectly honest, I have never tried using KPIlot's restore
feature. I know this is a cheap answer, but I would recommend using
pilot-xfer -i <list of prc/pdb's> instead of KPilot's restore.

Now, that being said... First, thank you very much for a very clear,
information-containing post! =:) Very nicely done! =:)

,----[ kpilot log ]
> | 01:12:59 File '/home/fenk/.kde/share/apps/kpilot/DBBackup/Robert
> Fenk/EuroCalc.prc' cannot be read.
> | 01:12:59 File '/home/fenk/.kde/share/apps/kpilot/DBBackup/Robert
> Fenk/EuroCalcCFGDB.pdb' cannot be read.
> | 01:12:59 File '/home/fenk/.kde/share/apps/kpilot/DBBackup/Robert
> Fenk/EuroCalcDB.pdb' cannot be read.
> `----
>
> ,----[ ?debug log? from the konsole ]
> |       exec: Adding /home/fenk/.kde/share/apps/kpilot/DBBackup/Robert
> Fenk/EuroCalc.prc to restore list.
> |        >infoFromFile
> | kpilotDaemon: WARNING: [static bool
> PilotLocalDatabase::infoFromFile(const QString&, DBInfo*)] : Can't open
> /home/fenk/.kde/share/apps/kpilot/DBBackup/Robert Fenk/EuroCalc.prc
> | kpilotDaemon: WARNING: [virtual bool RestoreAction::exec()] : Can't open
> /home/fenk/.kde/share/apps/kpilot/DBBackup/Robert Fenk/EuroCalc.prc
> |          >addMessage
> |          >shortStatusString
> |       exec: Adding /home/fenk/.kde/share/apps/kpilot/DBBackup/Robert
> Fenk/EuroCalcCFGDB.pdb to restore list.
> |        >infoFromFile
> | kpilotDaemon: WARNING: [static bool
> PilotLocalDatabase::infoFromFile(const QString&, DBInfo*)] : Can't open
> /home/fenk/.kde/share/apps/kpilot/DBBackup/Robert Fenk/EuroCalcCFGDB.pdb
> | kpilotDaemon: WARNING: [virtual bool RestoreAction::exec()] : Can't open
> /home/fenk/.kde/share/apps/kpilot/DBBackup/Robert Fenk/EuroCalcCFGDB.pdb
> |          >addMessage
> |          >shortStatusString
> |       exec: Adding /home/fenk/.kde/share/apps/kpilot/DBBackup/Robert
> Fenk/EuroCalcDB.pdb to restore list.
> |        >infoFromFile
> | kpilotDaemon: WARNING: [static bool
> PilotLocalDatabase::infoFromFile(const QString&, DBInfo*)] : Can't open
> /home/fenk/.kde/share/apps/kpilot/DBBackup/Robert Fenk/EuroCalcDB.pdb
> | kpilotDaemon: WARNING: [virtual bool RestoreAction::exec()] : Can't open
> /home/fenk/.kde/share/apps/kpilot/DBBackup/Robert Fenk/EuroCalcDB.pdb
> |          >addMessage
> |          >shortStatusString
> `----
>
> ,----[ kpilot version as taken from .../kpilot/lastsync.log ]
> | Version: KPilot 4.9.0 (depth9)
> | Version: pilot-link 0.12.1
> | Version: KDE 3.5.5
> | Version: Qt 3.3.7
> `----
>
> ,----[ The backup was created with ]
> | Version: KPilot 4.4.6
> | Version: pilot-link 0.11.8
> | Version: KDE 3.3.2
> | Version: Qt 3.3.4
> `----
>
> I am running Debian stable.
>
> Any ideas what is going wrong?
>

I'd say you've found a bug. =:( There's only 2 things I can think of that
might be causing this...


   1. It might be the space in the directory name that's causing
   something to go wonky. Unfortunately, that's not an easy one to try to test.
   2. It might be that the file exists, but isn't a valid palm resource.
   To test this, can you do "pilot-file --dump <filename>" on one of the
   failed-to-restore files? And just to be clear... do _any_ of your palm
   backup files get restored? Or none of them do?



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