Merge from pilot not repeatable

["Manuel M. T. Chakravarty" <chak cse unsw edu au>]

Hi!

I have successfully installed and used gnome-pilot with the
gnomecal conduit and a USB Visor.  However, I ran into the
following problem.  I downloaded all my calendar entries
from the Visor into gnomecal using the `Merge From Pilot'
setting.  As I experimented with different settings and knew
that I have all the relevant data on the Visor, I deleted
the local calendar file (.gnome/user-cal.vcf) only to find
that apparently the software refuses to download entries
twice from the Visor.  Any *new* entries that I make are
nicely downloaded, but those that I already downloaded
aren't merged in again when deleted.

I guess, this is meant to be a feature (not a bug), but I
wonder whether it can't be overridden somehow.  Did anybody
else run into this problem yet?

I also couldn't get `Copy From Pilot' to work at all.  From
what I understand, this option deletes the local resource
first and then downloads all data from the pilot.  For the
calendar, it seems to delete .gnome/user-cal.vcf (no
warning) and then fails to download anything (gnomecal is
automatically started, but contains no entries whatsoever).

Cheers,
Manuel

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  Manuel M. T. Chakravarty                               chak cse unsw edu au
  School of Computer Science & Engineering
  University of New South Wales, Sydney     http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~chak/