Re: [Freesafe-users] Installation/wish list

[Marai L. <at...@at...>]

On Sun, 17 Oct 2004 14:46 +0100 (BST)
si...@sh... (Simon Sherlock) wrote:

  Hi,

> Could I please request a bit more documentation?  I just installed 0.2.6

Yes, sure. The application seems mature enough to have some documentation
on it.

> and hadn't realised I would lose all my data that I'd entered in 0.2.5. 

Well, that's a problem with MIDP and the concrete MIDP implementation.
With not-so-smart phones you'll have this problem with any midlet. I have
a Nokia 9210 and if I install a new version of a midlet, it keeps the old
as well. And of course, as with most smart phones I can copy the password
database (manually) from the old version to the new one. But you need a
file manager application in order to do this, and you don't have that in a
Nokia 6230.

> Will it ever be possible to migrate passwords between versions/new 
> installations?

Yes, actually I've been thinking of it since the beginning, but nobody has
ever requested it, as I think most users use jFreeSafe with smart phones.
But it seems that the not-so-smart phones also get a momentum :), so I'll
implement this feature. The only solution I could come up with is that you
install a simple server software on your PC (which must have an internet
connection of some kind) and then you backup your password phone database
to it over the internet. You can then install the new version and restore
the database to that. 

I'll implement this in the next version (which means that you won't be
able to migrate your data from 0.2.6 to 0.2.7).

  Regards,
    atleta (Laszlo Marai)