Hi, Firs Lastmon. Sorry for answering late, here's mt take on this. You are thinking about apps that create documents, like notepad or word. MLO is not that kind of app, it is the kind that manages many entries, more similar to calendar or contacts, where all your stuff is in a single file.
MLO always has a file open, the only question is whether it has been saved. When a new user first opens MLO, the file is empty and also not saved. You could save it first before entering your first task, if you like. But many people just start by entering tasks. At some point MLO will ask them to save it, after which the file isn't empty and has been saved. For most users, that is the last time they need to think about files. When you open MLO it opens the file you had open the last time you used MLO, and all your tasks are there. When you are done, you just exit. MLO auto saves your file and you are ready for next time. Sometimes you might need to open the file, like after a Windows upgrade or if you upgrade your hard drive, when MLO might forget what its most recent file is. As Joel mentioned, this type of user would never ever use the close command. Here are some reasons why someone would use the close command: 1. You share your work tasks with someone else, but you do not want the other people seeing your personal tasks. You would segregate personal and professional tasks to two files and share the professional one. You can open two MLO windows with one file shown in each but if you decide not to (eg if your computer is old and slow) you can use one MLO window and from time to time *close* the window you are working in and open the other one 2. If you discover that yesterday you did an editing error and messed up some tasks, and you do not entirely remember which tasks were affected or what they said before being damaged, you might *close* your file, open a backup file that was saved before the damage, and save the restored file under a new name. In both of these cases, closing one file is immediately followed by opening another. Hope this helps, -Dwight On Tuesday, December 3, 2019 at 12:01:35 AM UTC-5, Firs Lastmon wrote: > > Am evaluating MLO, > > Confused by the design of the below behavior - unless of course I am > missing something. > > When closing the data file (File > Close), the tasks all close as expected. > > What is not expected, is that at this point, new tasks can be created > (without having a data file open). If I then go to close it again, it will > prompt to save. > > As far as I am concerned,the MLO should not allow new tasks to be created, > unless a data file has already been opened. > > What am I missing here? > > > -- 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 view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/mylifeorganized/5e30d692-80da-425e-b73a-3edfc55d5f21%40googlegroups.com.
