OK, OPIE had it's time. Now I'm going to GPE. Of course, I'm not going without my data.

• Did quite some backups of my OPIE data
  • Multisync 0.82-5 (debian sarge) to Evolution via sftp
  • tar/bzip2 of /home
  • opie-backup to file on CF.
• Installation procedure worked like charm.
• Asks for a (root) password then user details with password. Big plus for GPE
• Now it comes to syncing the data back:
  • I couldn't find a (binary) gpe plugin for multisync 0.82-5.
  • Got and compiled opensync/multisync0.90 from subversion source. Had to get the following debian sarge packages: libxml2-dev, libsqlite3-dev, libglib2.0-dev. (You need opensync before you can make multisync.)
  • Appearently I got only the CLI version of msynctool, no GUI. (Well, actually I prefer this.)
  • Got and compiled the evolution2 plugin. Had to get the following debian sarge packages: evolution-data-server
  • GPE plugin was missing, too. Got and compiled it.
  • Hint: The OpenSync Wiki provides Debian packages and tarballs (including GPE module) if you don't want to deal with svn.
  • Followed the instructions to do the sync:

    Synchronizing group "gpe-evo" 
    The previous synchronization was unclean. Slow-syncing
    Member 1 of type gpe-sync just connected
    Member 2 of type evo2-sync just connected
    All clients connected or error
    Member 2 of type evo2-sync just sent all changes
    No contacts tables found. Creating... done.
    No calendar tables found. Creating... done.
    Member 1 of type gpe-sync just sent all changes
    All clients sent changes or error
    Member 1 of type gpe-sync committed all changes.
    Member 2 of type evo2-sync committed all changes.
    All clients have written
    Member 1 of type gpe-sync just disconnected
    Member 2 of type evo2-sync just disconnected
    All clients have disconnected
    The sync was successful

  • But it wasn't successful. Nothing there, neither in Evo, nor in GPE. (Evolution's data must have been deleted while playing with multisync before.)
  • Syncing between OPIE and GPE (both on Z) didn't work with GPE image.
  • Last resort. Copy kdepim directory to $HOME on desktop. The kdepim pluggin seemed to require multisync/GUI. So, I had to get lots of UI libraries, almost all of KDE and all of GNOME.
  • Execute the GUI at /usr/local/bin/multisync0.90. Many errors. Looks like the multisync from debian sarge but says "experimental".
  • Says "Synced Successfully. Read 1 entries. Wrote 0 Entries."
  • Ok. I learned that neither on the Z nor on the desktop, the kde pim data is where it's supposed to be in ~/kdepim. I give up.

summary: Nice big (=readable) UI elements.