Entries not synced or with the wrong time

[Andreas Heinlein <aheinlein gmx com>]

Hello,

I have another problem with gnome-pilot sync'ing, and I hope you can
help me again.

Today I discovered on one of our palm devices that some appointments
from evolution were missing on the handheld despite sync'ing multiple
times. Even worse, on of the appointments existed on both sides, but
with different times (6-8pm vs. 6:30-9pm). Even if these were both
entered manually, they should have been treated as different
appointments, I think.

I then created another test appointment and sync'ed again, this entry
was synced. I deleted it on the desktop and sync'ed once more, it was
deleted from the palm, *and two, but not all of the other missing
entries, were copied over*.

I gave it another try and deleted the two xml files from
~/.evolution/calendar/local/system/*pilot*. This gave again duplicate
entries on both sides, but all events were transferred this time. Only
said entry with different times was overwritten, it now appeared twice
with 6-8pm on both sides.

I finally managed to clean up with deleting all duplicates on the
desktop and doing a one-way sync to the palm.

But the problem is: if there is the possibility that some appointments,
possibly several weeks or even months in the future, are not sync'ed,
the whole thing is next to useless. It was only by accident that I
actually noticed this, it might as well have been a problem for the last
weeks.

Any idea how to deal with this? Is there any usable development version,
or are these all only useful with GNOME 3? We are using 2.0.17 from
Ubuntu 10.04

THanks,
Andreas