# &kpilot; User's Guide

## Introduction

&kpilot; &kpilotver; is an application that synchronizes your &PalmPilot; or similar device (like the &Handspring; &Visor;, the &Sony; &Clie; or other &PalmOS; devices) with your &kde; desktop, much like the Palm Desktop &HotSync; software does for &Windows;. &kpilot; can back-up, restore, and &HotSync; your &PalmPilot;. It can synchronize the built-in applications with their &kde; counterparts. It also features additional conduits for third-party software.

There is a web page for &kpilot;: the Official &kpilot; Home Page. The KDE-PIM website also offers useful information on the subject of PIM in general. &kpilot; shares the kdepim-users mailing list, kdepim-users@kde.org. See the mailing lists page for more information on subscribing and unsubscribing from the list.

### Trademarks

&kpilot; describes synchronization operations with &PalmOS; devices, and it uses the word &HotSync; to name those synchronization operations, while recognizing that &HotSync; is a trademark of Palm, Inc. Holders of other trademarks, such as &Handspring; &Visor;, &Sony; &Clie;, and the Palm, Inc. trademarks &PalmPilot; and Zire are recognized as well.

## Overview of &kpilot;

&kpilot; consists of two parts: the &kpilot; daemon, which sits in the system tray and handles the actual communication with the &handheld;, and the normal &kpilot; program, which lets you configure the daemon and view the databases on your &handheld;. In normal operation, you will not need to use &kpilot; itself very much, since the daemon handles communication unobtrusively and synchronizes your data to &kde; applications like &korganizer; and &knotes;. &kpilot; is integrated into &kontact; as well.

It is vital to configure &kpilot; before use. At the very least, you need to tell it which hardware device to use to communicate with your &handheld;. Configuration settings are described at length in the section on configuring &kpilot;. For the impatient, the configuration wizard can set up most things for you.

Once &kpilot; is configured, you should make a backup of your &handheld; first. That is to be on the safe side. Once that is done, you can just leave the &kpilot; daemon running in the system tray, and all you need to do is press the &HotSync; button, and changes in the &handheld; data and the &kde; applications will be synchronized, so that the information matches again on both the &handheld; and the desktop.

If you want to examine the data stored on your &handheld;, the built in viewers can be used. This allows you to view memos, addresses, &etc;. There is a generic hexadecimal database viewer for advanced use.

Finally, &kpilot; can be used to install new programs and databases on your &handheld;.

&configuring-kpilot; &using-kpilot; &synchronization; &kpilot-faq;

## Credits and License

&kpilot; Program copyright 1998-2000 by &Dan.Pilone; &Dan.Pilone.mail;

Contributors:

- Adriaan de Groot groot@kde.org

- &Preston.Brown; pbrown@redhat.com

- VCal and Todo Conduits by: Herwin Jan Steehouwer, Kenneth Albanowski, &Michael.Kropfberger;

- Popmail Conduit overhaul: Marko Grönroos

- &kaddressbook; Conduit: Greg Stern

- Patches by: Jörn Ahrens, Robert Ambrose, Jörg Habenicht, Philipp Hullmann, Dag Nygren, Scott Presnell, Heiko Purnhagen, Chuck Robey and Jay Summet

Documentation copyright 2000,2001 Adriaan de Groot groot@kde.org. Documentation copyright 2004,2005 Carlos Leonhard Woelz carloswoelz@imap-mail.com

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