Zire PalmOS user NOT satisfied

[PalmOS Troll]

At first I thought it was great -- I plug in my Palm Zire 21 and the Kpilot
daemon starts and pumps in the data to Linux.

Then I discover that only some of the file types are there, and others are
not ( calendar, notes ).

Then I discover connectors -- great.  It works fine for Schedule and I even
got the Memoes to go to KNotes ( little yellow postit Notes on the
screen ).

Yet -- I am missing somethings.  I don't see a connector for expenses.  And,
I don't see a way to transfer PalmOS notes -- that include graphics -- to
Linux.

I tried JPilot and cannot get it to work.  I shut down the KPilot and press
the sync button and it sits there with the message:

Error reading AddressDB.pdb
****************************************
 Syncing on device /dev/pilot
 Press the HotSync button now
****************************************

I press the HotSync button on the Zire and it just sits there until it times
out.

The biggest problem of all is that assuming I only use KPilot -- sometimes
it works and sometimes it doesn't.  If I reboot, then it tends to work. 
But if I do a bunch of other stuff ( play bzflag, post, use a browser) then
KPilot stops reading the Palm Zire changes...the sync just sits there -- it
doesn't play the little notes.

So, then I boot into Windopes and run the Palm Desktop to /reset/ the Zire
-- or something.  It always works.  Then I boot back into Linux and KPilot
will typically work.

Bottom line: There is something far more robust about the Palm Desktop for
Windows than either KPilot or JPilot.

It not only handles EVERY feature of my Zire -- it always works every time.

GLOSS ( Gnu Linix OSS ) -- PLEASE TELL ME YOU CAN DO A BETTER JOB !!!

-- 
incognito, updated 8/17/2004
http://kentpsychedelic.blogspot.com