190034 - Offer more control when managing the direction of a HotSync

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 222016

(MailNews Core Graveyard :: Palm Sync, enhancement)

Description

[Ninoschka Baca]

Mozilla 1.2.1 build: WinMe

Overview: Give the user more control on how a HotSync is performed. Some ideas
are the following:

1. Offer the same options as the Palm Software
- hand held overrides the desktop
- desktop overrides the hand held
- sync in two directions and display prompts when discrepancies occur

2. Display a list of mozilla address books which can be selected or deselected.
For instance a user may not want the Collected Address Book to be synced. Others
may not want the Personal Address Book synced (as stated in bug# 182404, comment# 4)

Comment 1

[Ninoschka Baca]

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Comment 2

[Richard O'Brien]

The Mozilla AB Conduit appears to inherit the synchronisation control from the
previously installed Palm AB conduit and uses this as its default.

If the original conduit is in any other state than "Synchronise" when the
Mozilla AB installation takes place the new conduit does not work, i.e. Mozilla
is not started up and no syncing takes place.

Comment 3

[Ninoschka Baca]

*** Bug 192027 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 4

[Ninoschka Baca]

Trunk build 2003-03-21: WinXP
- In the HotSync Custom dialog I changed Address Book conduit setting to
"Desktop overwrites handheld" (or "Handheld overwrites Desktop"). Installed the
Mozilla Address Book Palm Sync installation, HotSync and it fails to update the
Mozilla AB.
- Then I checked the HotSync Custom dialog and now it has the "Synchronize the
files" radio button selected (I never changed this setting). Performed a HotSync
and now it's updating the Mozilla AB.

Cavin, do you know why this is occuring?

Comment 5

[Luca Postacchini]

*** Bug 204107 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 6

[Robert Accettura [:raccettura]]

And now I find this bug.  

We have one going, with a patch already, so I'll resolve as a DUP, even though
this one is older.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 222016 ***