Intro and Kontact troubles(Jack Monty)

[Colin Ward]

First of all, Welcome, Jack to the kdepim-users 
community!

As to your issue with Kontact and Google Calendar 
and contacts, I am having the issue as well with 
contacts but due to some digging I have done on my 
own into the issue, and without going into a detailed 
explanation, the contacts portion of Kontact will no 
longer sync with Google contacts. This is because of 
a change made by Google. If Kontact is 
reprogrammed to line up with this change, then 
Google contacts should again be able to sync with 
Kontact, but I am not aware of any plans for that 
reprogramming to happen but I am not "in the 
know" about such things.

as for syncing your calendar, I suspect you have to 
set up what is known as an app password. This is a 
"special" password that allows google to "trust" what 
are called "untrusted" apps. These are apps that 
google has decided do not meet its securi ty protools 
and so they are blocked from connecting to Google's 
servers. If you search for "setting up an app 
password google Kontact" or something similar, 
there are many good tutorials.

Welcome again!

Colin