Comment 8 for bug 1274683

@Larry: I fear this cannot be done easily. We do not maintain a manifest.xml at the moment when syncing to sdcard. therefore we somehow need to "taint" the note as soon as it is imported. And as we do not store "last-metadata-change-date" either, it is the only way to get the importing done.

solution is to rewrite the whole sync method and implement it as it is in tomboy - with a "server" and a "client" state, with revision comparisions etc. however, this takes more than a couple of hours and therefore i do not dare to start it just in between other things.
However, I am looking forward to the christmas holidays :-)

@Anthony: because of one-way sync. if you do not edit anything there should be no upload - except for the bug of course. however, i can't think of an easy method to require one-way-sync atm.