Re: [SyncEvolution] "Comparison was impossible" "
On Fri, 2017-04-28 at 10:31 +0200, Vincent wrote:
> Envoyé: Jeudi 27 Avril 2017 15:01:18
> Objet: Re: [SyncEvolution] "Comparison was impossible" "
>
> A --sync refresh-from-remote should reset your local data. It ignores
> any existing items in the local database and also generates a new
> local
> backup. Have you done that?
>
> I'm not sure why you get the "comparison impossible" message. Perhaps
> synccompare is not installed or not usable (it needs Perl).
>
Yes, I've tried both refresh-from-remote and refresh-from-local (despite that cleared
my database) and I always get the "Comparison was impossible" message.
Could you tell me more about synccompare?
In the syncevolution.org packages, it is under /usr/bin/synccompare.
It's a perl script that takes two database dumps and compares them,
similar to a diff between text files.
It gives you additional information what exactly changed during a sync
(for example: ADR in a contact changed from foo to bar) instead of
merely saying "one contact changed".
Can I use it or debug by another command line?
You can call it with "synccompare <dump A> <dump B>" where each
parameter is one of the ~/.cache/syncevolution/*/*.before or *.after
directories.
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