Unable to move to root

[Jeroen]

Hi,

I'm just starting with MLO. It seems I've lost the ability to move or ad tasks to the root folder. How can I correct that?

Thanks in advance,

Jeroen

[Stéph]

Hello Jeroen,

I think we're going to need more info to be able to help out.  Firstly, I've just tried moving a task to the root of my outline (in Windows, by just dragging the task with my mouse) without any problems. So, the MLO software isn't the problem.

Let's try creating a task in the root - 

If you select a task that's already in the root and press "Ins" (assuming you haven't changed the hotkey), does it create a new sibling task, also in the root folder?

Alternative method - try right-clicking on a task in the root and select "New Task" - that should also create a sibling in the root. 

Moving a task into the root folder - 

Try selecting a task and then dragging it down your list until the insertion line is where you want it - does that work?

Try the hotkey for promoting a task up the outline until it's at root level (on my laptop that's Shift+Alt+left arrow - can't remember whether that's a fixed hotkey or custom shortcut key).

If those options don't work in your outline, try creating a new outline and create a few tasks and subtasks in that, to see if your original outline has some kind of corruption (which is a very, very rare occurrence).

If you still can't create tasks in the root, you may have to try reinstalling MLO (or use the portable app version of MLO, like I do). 

Hope that helps you track the problem down,

Stéphane

[Jeroen]

Hi Stéphane,

Thank you for your help. The suggestions you wrote work, but my issue is that I wanted to be able to move tasks from the inbox to the root of the outline by keyboard using CTRL+M. I thought that function was broken, but now I realize it doesn't exist. In the android app there is a function to move a task to the <root top> or <root bottom> and I thought there was similar functionality in the windows app using CTRL+M.

Regards,

Jeroen

Op woensdag 15 juni 2022 om 20:30:49 UTC+2 schreef Stéph:

[Stéph]

Oh right. The Move window still exists - It's triggered by a hotkey which I happen to have set to Alt+Shift+M (but you'll probably have set to some other key combination). It's also available on the context menu if you right click on the action description. You're right, though - there isn't an option to move a task into the root, as it's meant for filing tasks into the appropriate folder or project. You'd have to drag and drop to move your task into the root of the outline.

Stéphane