Re: Conboy - Note Taking Application (Tomboy clone)
 

Is there a way to sync between Tomboy and Conboy (using SSH presumably)?

In the past I just copied my Conboy notes to my Tomboy watch folder. However, I started sorting my notes into briefcases on Tomboy (I think it is called briefcase - I can't remember) but my method of copying my Conboy notes to the Tomboy folder meant I would have to replace all notes in the folder with the newer notes from Conboy and Tomboy treated them all as completely new notes which meant my briefcase sorting was lost.

I want to be able to sync my notes to Tomboy and still preserve the briefcase sorting.

If there is a way to sync does sync in both directions? What I mean is if I last edited the note on Conboy when I sync the Tomboy version is updated to the version last edited on Conboy. If on the other hand the note was last edited on Tomboy then when I sync the Conboy version is updated to reflect the edits on Tomboy. Or is the sync one way only, so the Tomboy version always replaces the Conboy one even though the Conboy one is the last edited one.

Re: Conboy - Note Taking Application (Tomboy clone)
 

Please heeeeeelp!!!!

Don't know what I have done but somehow Conboy is no longer saving changes to my notes. When Conboy is open the changes are saved. So if I change a note and then go back to the front page the edited note is top of the list (if sorted by date). If I go back into the note the changes are there. However, if I close Conboy and then open it again the changes are gone. Strangely this problem only applies to existing notes. If I create a new note then all the changes are saved when I close.

How did I get into this mess? I don't know. but last thing that happened before I noticed this issue is that I copied all my notes to my laptop using WinSCP and OpenSSH. When it asked me if I wanted to replace all notes on the laptop I selected newer only. Doesn't seem like anything out of the ordinary there.

Could I have deleted something from the home/user/.Conboy folder or elsewhere that is needed to tell Conboy to save?

I have deleted all the notes and replaced them with the ones in my App data folder on my laptop where Tomboy uses as its watch folder but this does not fix the issue.

EDIT:

I have even tried uninstalling Conboy, deleting the .Conboy folder and then reinstalling Conboy, copying the notes back from my laptop to the .Conboy folder and I still have the same issue.

Re: Conboy - Note Taking Application (Tomboy clone)
 

You've most likely changed the file owner to root. Issue a
chown -R user <name of conboy user folder>

Edit: checked and it's just .conboy, so open xterm, type
sudo gainroot
chown -R user .conboy

AFAIK anything you transfer to the N900 with winscp will be owned by root, so you'll always need to do this when moving things to your user directory.

Note that the problem actually probably didn't manifest until the step where you deleted them and then copied them from the laptop, or you had another issue before that which may still need to be addressed.

This is a perfect example of why doing things as root is dangerous...

Re: Conboy - Note Taking Application (Tomboy clone)
 

Thanks. Unfortunately WinSCP was the only way to get the files I edited on Tomboy on to the N900 because I have a faulty USB port.

I tried the command you entered but it did not make any difference (although I was not sure at which point I was to run the command - before transferring the files using WinSCP, after, before closing Conboy after editing note). However, I think what you said is almost certainly the cause of the problem.

I have managed to find a way around the issue though and my notes are saving now, although Conboy has now become unstable (it crashes like three times before finally opening). Hopefully this will sort itself out.

Anyway the work around I did was that I put memory card into my blackberry and connected blackberry to laptop. I then transferred the Tomboy files to the media card using USB. Then I put the memory card into the N900 and used xterm cp command to copy them to the .Conboy folder thereby avoiding having to use WinSCP and like I said they are now saving.

Very ungainly process though so I think I will stick to just editing notes on my N900 rather than on laptop as well, at least until I can fix the faulty USB port on my device.

Re: Conboy - Note Taking Application (Tomboy clone)
 

Can't comment on the instability but your workaround accomplished the same thing (it left the files owned by your user account instead of root). In the future if you need to copy notes to your N900, you can use winscp and then issue the chown command before starting up conboy.

Re: Conboy - Note Taking Application (Tomboy clone)
 

awesomeness, running snowy 0.1, windows syncs, n900 syncs, mac syncs, and there is a web ui. wicked, thank you developers for putting in this work!

Re: Conboy - Note Taking Application (Tomboy clone)
 

Conboy does not start.
Error message: Internal error. Aplication "Conboy" closed.
Can you help?

Re: Conboy - Note Taking Application (Tomboy clone)
 

same problem.
a erased all settings, and still get the same message.
If started from console, I get a Segmentation Fault.
Tried apt-get remove and then apt-get install still no luck.
Please help, conboy is my number one application on N900!

Re: Conboy - Note Taking Application (Tomboy clone)
 

Installed conboy (unstable) (instead of plain conboy) and seems ok.
:-)

Re: Conboy - Note Taking Application (Tomboy clone)
 

Also getting "internal error" and segmentation fault from console.