Re: writephonebook, LDIF: "Data format is not valid" error

[Daniele Forsi]

2011/5/12  <address@hidden>:

> Hello :-)

hello

> While using gnokii 0.6.31git (downloaded 5may11) to write a single record 
> LDIF:

> Write Succeeded: memory type: ME, loc: 177, name: V rit  Community, number: 
> +914132622045
> Write failed (Data format is not valid.): memory type: ME, loc: 2, name: , 
> number:

> On the phone an entry had been created with name, phone number and email 
> address,
> no postal address.

> The input file was created by exporting from Thunderbird and manual cleanup.  
> Is further cleanup required?

no, the problem is that --writephonebook always returns error at EOF
for ldif and vcard

> BTW I also manually removed a long "description::" line from the input file 
> because it resulted in gnokii error "utf8_decode/iconv: Argument list too 
> long".  What is the limit?  Is it still 61 from
> #define GN_PHONEBOOK_NAME_MAX_LENGTH            61   /* For 6510 */

yes, but I guess we could raise this limit at least for Series 40 3rd
and later, maybe using PM_EXTPBK2 also for this

-- 
Daniele Forsi