That's about the length of it, Rob, while your well-meaning but misinformed IT department thinks that locking out WiFi access will make very much difference to your company's network security.
One other option: Can you take your office laptop home, put it on a wired connection to your home broadband and use online sync from there? Your only other option is to persuade Andrey to provide you with a utility to convert Android MLO.bak files to MLO Windows files. I think that open file formats are important for making sure that your data doesn't get locked up in a proprietary software ecosystem. One of the things which attracted me to MLO was the availability of the data in xml, which should be easy to convert and present on different systems - although the truth hasn't turned out quite as simple. Stéphane On Thursday, 18 May 2017 10:16:49 UTC+1, Rob Maule wrote: > > Yup, I wanted to but the office laptop is locked down for wifi access... > > So is there no way to extract the file from the phone to the cloud that a > pc can read? That is totally annoying. My only option would be to extract > the file from my home computer, send it to my work email then restore from > that? If I remember and if I go on my home computer everyday... Does that > sound about right? > > On Tuesday, 16 May 2017 21:20:27 UTC+1, Dwight wrote: >> >> Hi, Rob. The reason that you could not get that to work is because it >> does not work - the file formats are different on phone and Windows. >> Have you considered trying wifi sync? >> >> -Dwight >> >> On 5/16/2017 4:52 AM, 'Rob Maule' via MyLifeOrganized wrote: >> > Hi everyone >> > >> > I'm having problems with syncing which will become clear shortly! >> > >> > My office does not allow MLO access to the firewall for security >> reasons >> > (blah blah blah) so I was trying to work out another way to sync to my >> > office laptop. The goal was to create a backup from my phone and email >> > it to my work email account, then save that file and open it in MLO on >> > the office laptop. However, when trying this the phone emailled an >> > MLObak file and I received "Could not open this file: Invalid file >> > format" error message when trying to open it. Is there something I'm >> > doing wrong? I'm trying to backup from my android phone and open the >> > backup in MLO windows. >> > >> > Thank you! >> > >> > -- >> > 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] >> > <mailto:[email protected]>. >> > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] >> > <mailto:[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/6e919d39-d76e-433d-a033-b3681d5406d7%40googlegroups.com >> >> > < >> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/mylifeorganized/6e919d39-d76e-433d-a033-b3681d5406d7%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer>. >> >> >> > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > -- 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/cdb7c8d2-5b59-4ecc-92be-178c4c0aff51%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
