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kpilot driving me crazy

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Tuesday, January 3rd 2006, 2:19pm

kpilot driving me crazy

i've searched and searched for the answer to this issue but have come up with
nothing.

i'm using kde 3.5 trying to sync my sony clie peg sj30 with kontact. the pilot
is syncing but nothing is transferring over from the PC. no addresses, no
calendars, no nothing.

i've looked at every configuration file, removed everything and started from
scratch but to no avail.

i have noticed in the kpilot viewer none of the addresses or dates are showing
up as well. is there some magic trick i'm missing to get addresses and dates
(and todos by the way) from kontact to the viewer to the pda?

i've searched google, the kontact web site, the kdepim website, and just about
everywhere else i can think of.

thanks anyone for any help.

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Wednesday, January 4th 2006, 2:23pm

small update:

if i enter an appointment into the PDA it IS syncing that new appointment to the Kontact calendar. just not the other way around (from PC to PDA).

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Thursday, January 5th 2006, 2:13pm

Are you trying to copy everything from the PC to the Clie? If so, have you tried setting kpilot to "Copy PC to Handheld" I have a Clie PEG TJ127 (I think), and I had to do that the first time I synced. I don't know why. After that, I could put on a normal sync, and it just worked. Also, if your Clie is in fact currently empty, you can try setting the conflict resolution to "PC Overrides" for the time being until everything is transferred.

If you have information on your Clie already, then disregard the above, or you might erase important information.

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Thursday, January 5th 2006, 11:23pm

tried that just now. didn't work. in fact, the PC didn't override anything. i entered a test contact and test calendar entry and both are still on the clie but nothing was added from the PC.

does it matter that the Kpilot viewer doesn't show anything? i open the kpilot view, click on Address viewer, and i see nothing. why is this happening?

thanks for your help by the way.

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Tuesday, January 10th 2006, 1:53pm

so it seems the problem is that Fedora Core has shipped a pre release of pilot-link with FC4. that problem, from what i've read from the FC mailing list, is what is caused the problems with syncing with kpilot.

and then i read that the KDE community is switching the entire system to KitchenSync. apparently this will come out with the release of FC5? is that correct?

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Friday, February 3rd 2006, 2:13am

Sorry for just now getting back to you. It seems that this is an ongoing problem with FC4 and Palm PDAs in general. see:

http://lists.kde.org/?l=kde-pim&m=112208219915205&w=2

It might do you good to try installing a different (stable) version of pilot-link.

I really don't know what else to tell you. I use SuSE, and haven't used Fedora since FC2 because of constant conflicts with KDE. Fedora definitely lends itself more easily to Gnome.

Anyway, I don't think the OpenSync-KitchenSync thing is coming until KDE 4, which is not due out until like the end of 2006. Is that when FC5 is supposed to arrive?

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Tuesday, February 7th 2006, 10:49am

Ask at the right place

The right place to ask this kind of question is on the kdepim-users mailing list, which exists for the purpose of dealing with user's problems (and figuring out if the problem really is a bug). The list is publically archived, too, so it's searchable and the solutions are available to everyone. You don't need to be subscribed to post messages to the list, though you might miss replies if you're not subscribed. The list address is kdepim-users@kde.org .

Since this is about KPilot, you might even look at the KPilot website (though it doesn't have any debugging information right now, so there's no point in doing so now).

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Wednesday, February 27th 2008, 2:07pm

RE: Ask at the right place

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Originally posted by eetbeest
The right place to ask this kind of question is on the kdepim-users mailing list, which exists for the purpose of dealing with user's problems (and figuring out if the problem really is a bug). The list is publically archived, too, so it's searchable and the solutions are available to everyone. You don't need to be subscribed to post messages to the list, though you might miss replies if you're not subscribed. The list address is kdepim-users@kde.org .

Since this is about KPilot, you might even look at the KPilot website (though it doesn't have any debugging information right now, so there's no point in doing so now).


So, you are saying that this forum is a waste of time for people looking for help with KDE? Given the lack of responses to many calls for help, :( I can believe that.