Kpilot's addressbook conduit erroniously reports confilcts

[davezanni]

Everything syncs fine except for the address book. *Every* time I try to sync, I get a message that address book records have been altered both on the PC and the PDA. It asks me, for all 300 something records to say whether I want the PC value or handheld value to override. This happens even if I configure the address book conduit in kpilot to have handheld values override when there's a conflict, or to have PC values override when there's a conflict.

Looking in the directory where the address book is kept. I see that -- in addition to the .vcf address book file -- there's a "lock" directory. After various synchs, I also get .vcf_01, .vcf_02 etc files.

I've tried changing permissions on the vcf file to 666, and I've tried removing the "lock" directory... but to no avail.

[davezanni (launchpad-net-davezanni)]

This might be a problem with KDEs Kontact. The problem goes away when I set KDE Kontact's Address book resource (the vcf file) to be "read only".

[Rich Johnson (nixternal)]

Are you still experiencing this issue? I don't ever remember experiencing this and sync many times a day.

[davezanni (launchpad-net-davezanni)]

I *probably* am, although I can's say for sure since I'm not using kpilot anymore. I switched back over to gnome so I'm using gnome-pilot (or whatever it is) and I'm synching with evolution. If I'm the only one that has experienced this problem then we might as well just let it go, since I'm pretty content with Evolution and gnome right now. Otherwise if there are others (and they chime in here) then I'll help troubleshoot.