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List:       kde-linux
Subject:    Re: [kde-linux] Knotes aren't preserved by logins
From:       Rob Tanner <rtanner () cheshiresgrin ! net>
Date:       2005-05-05 4:29:52
Message-ID: 377BDC05715D3A51624F792C () cheshire ! cheshiresgrin ! net
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Thanks.  That does it.

-- Rob

--On Wednesday, May 04, 2005 01:02:19 PM +0100 Stephan Matthiesen 
<stephan.matthiesen@gmx.de> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Am Mittwoch, 4. Mai 2005 07:13 schrieb Rob Tanner:
>> I just upgraded to the latest and greatest Redhat (ES4) and Knotes are
>> not preserved between invocations of the knotes app (both across logins
>> and by simply quiting and restarting the Knotes app).  According to
>> kde-config, the version of KDE is  3.3.1-3.6 Red Hat.  KDE version
>> 3.1.3-6.10 Red Hat does not have the problem.  What I notice is that
>> specific note preferences are preserved in the directory
>> ~/.kde/share/apps/knotes/notes as libkcal-nnnnn.nnn. But the text is
>> preserved in a single file named ~/.kde/share/apps/knotesnotes.ics,
>> which is overwritten when the Knotes app is started up.
>>
>> Is this a setting soemwhere?  I'm baffled.
>
> No, this is a bug in that version. See:
> http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=90744
>
> It has been corrected since. If you can't update (or don't want to),
> there is  a workaround. It is described in the bug report (in comment #9):
>
>> WORKAROUND with symbolic link:
>>  - (Save old messages if needed)
>>  - rm ~/.kde/share/apps/knotesnotes.ics*
>>  - rm -r -f ~/.kde/share/apps/knotes
>>  - knotes
>>  - (Exit knotes)
>>  - ln -s ~/.kde/share/apps/knotesnotes.ics
> ~/.kde/share/apps/knotes/notes.ics
>>  - knotes
>>  This works for me, saving notes between sessions.
>
> Hope that helps.
> Stephan



Rob Tanner                                        DRACO DORMIENS NUNQUAM
rtanner@cheshiresgrin.net                                    TITILLANDUS

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