About:
ColdSync is a portable synchronization tool for Palm devices (PalmPilot, Handspring Visor, etc.) that runs under *BSD, Solaris, Digital Unix/Tru64, Linux, AIX, and Windows NT. It supports PalmOS 2.0 (original PalmPilot) and later. It is only known to support Visor syncing under FreeBSD and Linux, however. It supports IR syncing under Linux. ColdSync can back up, restore, install, and synchronize database, and can be extended and customized through the use of conduits. ColdSync is rather paranoid and takes pains not to delete anything it isn't 100% sure about.

Release focus: Minor feature enhancements

Changes:
Some support was added for the Palm m50x series. The configuration file is now better and more powerful, as it includes proper support for strings and variables. Various bug fixes were made.

Author:
Arensb [contact developer]

Rating:	reset 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
8.41/10.00 (3 votes)

Homepage:
http://www.coldsync.org/
Tar/GZ:
http://www.coldsync.org/download/coldsync-2.2.5.tar.gz
Changelog:
http://www.coldsync.org/NEWS
Mailing list archive:
http://www.thedotin.net/maillists/coldsync-hackers/

Trove categories: [change]

[Development Status]		5 - Production/Stable
[Environment]		Console (Text Based), No Input/Output (Daemon)
[Intended Audience]		End Users/Desktop
[License]		OSI Approved :: Artistic License
[Operating System]		POSIX, POSIX :: BSD :: FreeBSD
[Topic]		Communications, Utilities

Dependencies: [change]
No dependencies filed

 Branches

Branch	Version	Last release	License	URLs
Stable	2.2.5	07-Dec-2001	Artistic License
Development	2.1.0-20010415	18-Apr-2001	Artistic License

 Releases

Version	Focus	Date
2.2.5	Minor feature enhancements	07-Dec-2001 16:38
2.1.2	Major feature enhancements	30-May-2001 20:10
1.4.6	N/A	29-Sep-2000 04:38
1.4.5	N/A	25-Sep-2000 05:37
1.2.0	N/A	05-Jun-2000 12:39
1.1.9	N/A	07-May-2000 07:16
1.1.5	N/A	06-Apr-2000 00:46
1.1.2	N/A	27-Jan-2000 10:49
1.0.0	N/A	22-Jan-2000 21:24

 Comments

[»] Designed to be "stable" but is not yet.
by Jon Mayo - May 23rd 2002 13:38:13

This application, according to it's website is ment to be "stable" rather than featureful. Seeing as it segfaults as soon as I press hotsync on my PalmIIIx (linux 2.4.18) it makes me think that "stable" is a relative term and does not indicate that the code has gone through any sort of review or evaluation process. Sorry to slam the software so much, but it's not right to imply that the software is stable when infact it is not.

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[»] Re: Designed to be "stable" but is not yet.
by Alessandro Zummo - Dec 8th 2002 07:47:55

You may want to try the latest CVS version and see if it performs better. If you still have troubles, please send a bug report to the developers.

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