Synching you Palm Tungsten|T to J-Pilot over USB on Ubuntu Debian GNU/Linux

Ok, simple enough.

Install J-Pilot (I used apt, apt-get install jpilot !)

  • Navigate the menu to File -> Preferences
  • Select the “Settings’ tab”
  • Enter usb: in the “Serial Port” field.
  • Select “OK”
  • Press the HotSync button on the cradle.
  • Click the HotSync button on the left of the J-Pilot window.

Next for some plugins, watch this space!

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2 Responses to “Synching you Palm Tungsten|T to J-Pilot over USB on Ubuntu Debian GNU/Linux”

  1. Mac Horn Says:
    December 19, 2008 at 1:00 am | Reply

    Woo hoo!!! You have rescued a Ubuntu newbie from further hours of frustration.

    Thank you for this – never occurred to me to press the Hotsync button on *both* devices. I’ve been banging my head on the desk when I got no response to either the Palm Hotsync button or the jpilot Hotsync button. But now I know, and all my Palm files have appeared in jpilot (the main reason for getting a netbook in the first place!)

  2. dmom Says:
    January 28, 2009 at 11:18 pm | Reply

    Mac Horn,

    I am delighted that you found this useful.

    I must humbly admit that I was also banging my head off a wall for quite a while before I got it working. Simple enough now looking back, but nobody mentioned it in anything else that I read, and my use cases previously entailed only the requirement to activate the hotsync from -either- the device or computer, not both.

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