Backport r851235 by tmcguire from trunk to the 4.1 branch:

Merged revisions 844028 via svnmerge from
svn+ssh://tmcguire@svn.kde.org/home/kde/branches/kdepim/enterprise4/kdepimlibs

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r844028 | osterfeld | 2008-08-08 14:51:13 +0200 (Fri, 08 Aug 2008) | 1 line

check for write errors

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svn path=/branches/KDE/4.1/kdepimlibs/; revision=877107