A nightmare
Posted: Wed Sep 30, 2015 5:42 pm
I was happy with birdiesync 2 with Thunderbird (TB) and an iPhone for years. But no chance to switch to the current TB version 38. So I read that there would be a new Birdiesync-version soon. As I did not want to be a beta tester I kept my feet still and waited with Birdiesync 2 and an older version of TB. So a few days ago great news: final version available.
Now the nightmare started: backup of the database was one day old from the old version of TB/birdiesync. I installed TB 38.2 and the final version of Birdiesync. The next three hours I tried to understand the new user interface and how to connect one address-book (not the same name) and one calendar (also not the same name, but keep in mind that it worked fine in the older version). Why does the new version not look at the old version?
Finally I started the first synchronization: horror, contacts ok, events doubled in both systems! I tried to restore the backup but this was not possible because the backup was from the old TB version (ok, my mistake). I deleted manually the doubled entries (the next two hours), the of course prepared a backup.
Next day (today): set iPhone (ios 8.4) to write only and replace, TB to read only. Worked, happy, but iPhone 601 events, TB 1270 events?? I bought the license.
Next chapter in the nightmare:
iPhone read/write, TB read/write. Result: iphone 1035 events (a lot of doubles), TB 1273 events. So I restore the backup and started as in the morning: result iPhone 601, TB 1270 events.
iPhone write only, TB read only, start connect, 291 ops will be modified (in the iPhone), ok.
Then I started the same procedure a few times without altering anything:
375 modification, next time 213 modifications, next time 194 modifications, next time sync failed (source disconnected), repeated the sync 356 modifications, then 81 operation, then a sync fail failure, and so on and on and on.
The result: The idea of the program is good and I really need to have this sync but I cannot trust the program any more.
Now the nightmare started: backup of the database was one day old from the old version of TB/birdiesync. I installed TB 38.2 and the final version of Birdiesync. The next three hours I tried to understand the new user interface and how to connect one address-book (not the same name) and one calendar (also not the same name, but keep in mind that it worked fine in the older version). Why does the new version not look at the old version?
Finally I started the first synchronization: horror, contacts ok, events doubled in both systems! I tried to restore the backup but this was not possible because the backup was from the old TB version (ok, my mistake). I deleted manually the doubled entries (the next two hours), the of course prepared a backup.
Next day (today): set iPhone (ios 8.4) to write only and replace, TB to read only. Worked, happy, but iPhone 601 events, TB 1270 events?? I bought the license.
Next chapter in the nightmare:
iPhone read/write, TB read/write. Result: iphone 1035 events (a lot of doubles), TB 1273 events. So I restore the backup and started as in the morning: result iPhone 601, TB 1270 events.
iPhone write only, TB read only, start connect, 291 ops will be modified (in the iPhone), ok.
Then I started the same procedure a few times without altering anything:
375 modification, next time 213 modifications, next time 194 modifications, next time sync failed (source disconnected), repeated the sync 356 modifications, then 81 operation, then a sync fail failure, and so on and on and on.
The result: The idea of the program is good and I really need to have this sync but I cannot trust the program any more.