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<title>Setting up your synchronization system</title>
<para>
Synchronization presents you with two issues you'll need to
deal with. The first one is pretty simple: you'll need to get
the data to move among the various devices you're using. If
you've already got <application>Gnome-Pilot</application>
working, then all you have to do is tell it to use Evolution
as a conduit. If you haven't used
<application>Gnome-Pilot</application> before, you'll need to
run the GNOME <application>Control Center</application> and go
through the hand-held device setup assistant. Then you can
create the Evolution conduit and press the hotsync button.
</para>
<para>
If that doesn't work, jump up and down several times and swear
loudly. Then make sure you've got
<application>Gnome-Pilot</application> going to the right
device (for my serial port, it's /dev/ttys0, not the default
/dev/pilot) and that you have read and write permission on
that device. If you don't you'll need to be added to whatever
group has those permissions (for my system, it's tty).
Alternately, if you're the only user of your computer and
don't care too much about security, just use
<command>su</command> to become root, and then use
<command>chmod a+rw /dev/[DEVICENAME]</command> to set
universal read and write permissions on that port— just
don't tell your sysadmin I said you could. (Sysadmins, of
course, would never do such a thing.)
</para>
<para>
Once <application>Evolution</application> knows where to get
the mail, address, and calendar data, it needs to know what to
do with it. When you synchronize your local data with the data on
a server or handheld device, you may run into conflicts:
perhaps you have ended up with two cards with the same name
and different addresses, or old mail that has been deleted
from one device but not the other. What if you want to keep
only the most recent mail on your hand-held or your laptop,
but all the mail on the LDAP server or your desktop machine?
Select the <guibutton>Synchronization</guibutton> tab from the
<interface>Preferences</interface> window to set up the
conflict resolution preferences.
</para>
<para>
You can set <application>Evolution</application>'s
synchronization behavior in the following ways:
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</para>
<para>
<warning>
<title>Data Loss Prevention</title>
<para>
It's always a good idea to make a backup. If you set your
synchronization behaviors wrong, you could end up deleting
the messages and cards you want to keep, and keeping the
ones you want to delete. Before you change these
preferences, make a backup of your
<application>Evolution</application> files. You can do
this by... <!--DESCRIBE HERE -->
</para>
</warning>
</para>
</chapter>
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