Oh boy, this post shouldn't have to exist, but here it goes. MLO dev team, please don't use dark UX patterns, and please add the below solution to your FAQ. I've already had people I've whole-heartedly recommended MLO to get furious with how you guys tricked people into upgrading to MLO 5 by forcing your paying customers into a free trial and locking them out of their to-do lists when they downgrade. Never, *every *force customers to pay you money by locking them out of their to-do lists. Make your software so good that people will continue to upgrade to get the new features. Don't rely on dark patterns. Don't rely on tricks. Just write good software and design good solutions.
Okay, on to the solution. Can you downgrade to MLO 4? Unfortunately, it's not entirely true. You can downgrade the software with no problem but *you can not downgrade your To-Do list. * If you accidentally upgraded to MLO 5 your to-dos will be inaccessible if you downgrade to MLO 4. The only way to truly recover your to-do list is to restore from a backup, but there's some things you can do without MLO forcing you to upgrade to version 5 to keep your to-do list. To downgrade the software only (not your to-do list, which has already been upgraded to MLO 5 file format without user's consent) go to the website to the download page, and at the very bottom there's a Previous Versions section. Download MLO 4. Once you reinstall MLO 4, you'll find that all of your to-dos are gone. *MLO is forcing you to upgrade to version 5 keep your to-do list.* But there's a workaround. You'll have to then reinstall MLO 5 a second time, it will not show your to-dos, so go to File > Open and locate where your original (now MLO 5) to-do list file was stored, export your to-dos as an XML file (File > Export), reinstall MLO 4, and then import that into MLO 4. The XML format does not include recurrences or completed tasks. So if you've used those features (being that recurrences is one of the core features of MLO compared to other tools) you'll be losing that. You can then set up your recurrences and completed tasks again, or use the information to migrate to a new To-do list tool that also includes recurrences. *The best solution is to restore from a backup.* I really hope you have backups of your to-do list. I was lucky; I was able to pull my MLO 4 to-do list off of an external backup to recover what MLO did. *If you have automated backup set up in MLO*, there's a Backups subfolder that contains a bunch of .bak. Sort by date, find the most recent MLO 4 backup and change the extension from .bak to .ml, and then open that as your todo list. If you did not have your own backups, or had MLO's automatic backup enabled, (and you were using non-XML supported features) you're boned. Try the XML export/import procedure. Of course, if you want to reward MLO for tricking users into upgrading by tricking them into a free trial without notice, then I suppose you can pay to keep your to-do list intact. On Monday, September 17, 2018 at 10:10:55 PM UTC-7, Jonas wrote: > > Am Donnerstag, 23. August 2018 09:25:12 UTC+2 schrieb Hein Daddl: >> >> ... >> >> If not: How do I downgrade to 4? >> >> ... >> > Same question for me. I'm pretty sure it said, that you can return to > MLO4, if you dont want to buy MLO5 after the trial. > -- 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/250f66b0-f344-4363-9cca-b8a3cfb7ddbc%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
