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+ <chapter id="config-sync">
+
+ <!-- THIS ENTIRE CHAPTER MAY BE DELETED -->
+
+ <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&mdash; 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:
+ <!-- LIST HERE -->
+ </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>