knotes kpissed me koff
For MONTHS I have been irritated that I have been unable to use knotes (a utility providing memo pad or "post-it note"-like functionality in KDE.) It kept duplicating my entries many times over, giving me an enornous sea of extra notes, and consequently making it impossible to find anything. I tried blowing away the notes files themselves and the knotes config file (knotesrc) but nothing helped. Any new notes I created were heavily duplicated as soon as I quit a restarted knotes. (to be clear, they weren't actually duplicated in the notes.ics file, only in the display of notes from the knotes panel applet or the knotes viewer in kontact). I finally got so frustrated that I backed up my .kde directory and just started blowing away files and directories inside until I found a cure to the problem. At last I have solved this annoying problem.
After removing the following file, my knotes behavoir returned to normal
~/.kde/share/config/kresources/notes/stdrc
I'm not sure of the exact cause of the problem, but after testing with a new user with no prior .kde dir, I could not reproduce the problem; so I think it probably had to do with the huge quantity of notes I had retained since I started using knotes, and the fact that I have upgraded to newer versions of kde and knotes several times since.
In any case, I'm very happy to be able to use knotes again!
