Hi, C. I'd like to understand a little better about your situation.
A task whose parents are not projects and are not repeating tasks will not be affected by this change. I'm guessing that you are not a user of repeating tasks with subtasks. You described your interests being focused on what's to come and that you have little interest in what has been done. With repeating tasks, your past tasks become your future tasks and cannot easily be dismissed. This does not sound like you. So I'm guessing that you have a lot of tasks that are organized as projects. Because if you don't have subtasks of repeating tasks and you don't have tasks in projects, this change does not affect you. To me, many of the things about projects require tasks completed early to stick around into the later phases of the project. For example, you can't compute a meaningful progress bar or percent complete if the early tasks have been archived. So I'm wondering what you get out of organizing your tasks as projects. Would you mind describing how you use the projects, and what you get out of them that you wouldn't get from, say, a folder full of tasks. -Dwight From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of mlo_user_08 Sent: Thursday, April 25, 2013 4:32 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [MLO] Change: Archiving old completed tasks will not archive the subtasks from open Projects... Greetings, Loving the latest with 4.1, but one of the recent changes is making way more work to clean up and see what remains on the 'to-do' plate. >From the Change Log: "Change: Archiving old completed tasks will not archive the subtasks from open Projects and open Recurrence tasks anymore. You need to complete a project or recurrent task for archiving their subtasks." I could certainly see where this could be an advantage in some cases, and it's a perfectly valid option-- but I would think that it should be just that-- an Option... that one could enable or disable in the AutoArchive feature settings dialogue. The way I have it set up, everything that's completed is busted out to an archive file, should I every need to see it again-- which is pretty much never since I'm more concerned about what I need to do next rather than what I did 10 minutes ago, I can always dig it up. I think I've done that once in the last 7 years, give or take. With the prior Archiving behavior it was real nice to just clean the deck, get the debris out, and see *what's left* that needs to be completed. Sure, I could probably use the 'hide' feature, but since I check my total tasks in the reports it would be nice to get an accurate number... The extra completed tasks also bring down the Windows Mobile file since there's now a good deal more tasks in the file itself unless I manually scrub completed tasks. The current workaround is to manually delete them, but given that I used to be able to automate the process using a macro, it's kind of a bummer, and a time sucker, to have to go through and manually delete completed items just because they reside in a project (that will likely be going on for the next 6 months at least....!) Having said that... digging the latest release of 4.1. More good stuff that I'm finding on a daily basis... Cheers, C. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MyLifeOrganized" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/mylifeorganized?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MyLifeOrganized" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/mylifeorganized?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
