This is now apparently the 3rd time in about 2 or three months that MLO has just indiscriminately deleted a whole branch of folders and tasks. For whatever reason it seems to keep eating the same branch though not at every sync but rather at random times. I'm thankful to have the know-how and tools to merge/recover from these disasters (the first time it happened we went DAYS without it being detected). I have no idea if it's eating other data (and I hope it isn't but there's just no way to know.)
For reference here's my setup: MLO 4.3.3 Pro on mine and my assistant's machines. I share two branches (my Inbox and a Biz tasks branch) from my MLO file to a network share on a NAS She in turn sync both of those branches into here MLO file. She does not use MLO for herself and has no data beyond these two branches I also use MLO v2 on my Android and WiFi sync. The data that keeps getting eaten is a structure of folders in my Inbox called Speedbox which has a number of folders within (about 12 presently) some of which have tasks within (probably in the 20 or 30 range presently) On a number of occasions so far my assistant hits sync (F9) and like magic the whole Speedbox disappears. The first time it happened it took a bunch of tasks that were in the Inbox (but not the Speedbox) with it but this last(3rd) time it didn't appear to. I don't remember the details of the second time as I was too busy to even write it up and we caught it immediately so just rolled back to a backup. I don't know what this thing is doing, it just deletes the whole structure without warning, without indication. They are not conflicts they are just deleted inexplicably. This first two times there was no conflict dialog at all. This last time a conflict dialog appeared but showing only 6 tasks. None of these tasks were included in the deletion and pretty sure it's just a coincidence. Since I've gotten decently proficient at dealing with this already, I had saved copies of my file so I tried the conflict resolution multiple ways (remote overwrites local, local over remote, mixed as by default) all ended up eating the Speedbox and in each case it doesn't look like the conflicted tasks even had anything to do with it. I think it's just coincidental. So what I can't figure out is just wth is going on here? Why does MLO just eat this whole structure without any warning. I'm copying this post as an email to tech support and the email will have my logs attached. From my (not very informed) reading of the logs I see no trigger, just that the tasks are being deleted. It's getting ridiculous. I've resolved it (for now) by opening a backup, saving it as an .ml, changing bidi sync to local overwrites remote, syncing, then syncing that down to my assistant's machine. Then a full resynch on her machine then switch me back to bidi and full resync on my end then a sync of MLO-A. Then I tried a various smattering of syncs on all 3 devices to ensure it's good, which it is, for now. Doubtless the problem will return as it already has twice before. If anyone has any thoughts, ideas or has experienced this before I want to hear from you please. J. Below/attached is a screencap of the conflict resolution dialog with the default suggestions. As above, no matter the combo here MLO still eats my Speedbox. <https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-REkrL-sgCa0/VrKPd7WddqI/AAAAAAAACLQ/YJn61MTRF8A/s1600/Conflict%2BResolution%2Bdialog.jpg> -- 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 https://groups.google.com/group/mylifeorganized. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/mylifeorganized/956592be-a570-4406-afe2-8d8cd294a0ac%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
