From b9401b5e1d56efe83087574adad21155c65a4793 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Aaron Weber Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2000 07:46:07 +0000 Subject: Fixed sig stuff here and in setupassist. 2000-09-20 Aaron Weber * C/config-prefs.sgml: Fixed sig stuff here and in setupassist. * C/config-sync.sgml: Fixed description of conduit usage. 2000-09-18 Aaron Weber * C/preface.sgml: Spelling fixes, etc. svn path=/trunk/; revision=5518 --- doc/C/config-sync.sgml | 39 +++++++++++++++------------------------ 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 24 deletions(-) (limited to 'doc/C/config-sync.sgml') diff --git a/doc/C/config-sync.sgml b/doc/C/config-sync.sgml index ae78a6daaf..8fcf94e3af 100644 --- a/doc/C/config-sync.sgml +++ b/doc/C/config-sync.sgml @@ -1,19 +1,17 @@ - - - Setting up your synchronization system 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 Gnome-Pilot - working, then all you have to do is tell it to use Evolution - as a conduit. If you haven't used + working, then all you have to do is tell it to use the + Evolution + conduit. If you haven't used Gnome-Pilot before, you'll need to run the GNOME Control Center and go through the hand-held device setup assistant. Then you can - create the Evolution conduit and press the hotsync button. + select the Evolution conduit and press the hotsync button. If that doesn't work, jump up and down several times and swear @@ -21,26 +19,19 @@ Gnome-Pilot 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 - su to become root, and then use - chmod a+rw /dev/[DEVICENAME] 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.) + that device. If you don't, you'll need to be added to whatever + group has those permissions (probably tty). - Once Evolution 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: + Once Evolution knows how 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? + only the a few contacts or messages on your hand-held or your + laptop, but keep all the data server or your desktop machine? Select the Synchronization tab from the Preferences window to set up the conflict resolution preferences. @@ -58,9 +49,9 @@ 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 - Evolution files. You can do - this by... + preferences, make a backup of your the + evolution + directory. -- cgit v1.2.3