New Organizer Version

[Stephen]

Has anyone tried the new beta of Chronos Organizer?

[JR-London]

I saw this a week ago but haven't downloaded it. The last update I did
put a timebomb in the application that has twice deleted most of the
information in every single contact I had. The trick as well is that
it didn't happen straight away. It sat in there festering and did for
me a few weeks in.

Apparently you'll now get the week view and month view. That didn't
take long did it ?

JR

[db]

Remember, for Chronos a final release is beta, so try at your own risk.

[Ugimom]

I've been using it since the day after release, and (knock on wood)
so far, so good. I agree with db: given some of Chronos' earlier
releases, this is definitely try at your own risk. But even Chronos
seems to recognize that their history doesn't inspire confidence--to
get to the download, you're first warned about the risks of beta
releases, and then given explicit instructions/directions on how to
manually back up your Organizer database, your Address Book, and your
iCal calendars. Having read JR-London's previous posts about
Organizer wiping out his Address Book data, I'd already made a habit
of periodically backing up AB and iCal locally, in addition to my more
comprehensive backups to external drives. I've still not experienced
JR's wipe out, but given some of the sync issues that have happened to
so many others along the way, I don't doubt that it occurred, and
without warning.

Having said all that, the 5.7b2 release has been stable for me (knock
knock, again). It's great to *finally* have the week and month views,
along with a few other refinements. I've encountered one bug that
crashes the application (without data loss)--the Calendars/Months
preference to show day of year # doesn't work, and if I try to force
it, Organizer crashes, and won't reopen (replacement of the plist
preference file was necessary to fix that). And I've reported that
the Day view panes don't remember their positions between restarts of
the program--a GUI bug that mostly just an annoyance. But the general
features such as Daily Notes, links, etc, have been working as they're
supposed to.

Bottom line: it may be a while before I fully trust Organizer. But
even with the problems and missing pieces, its features still fit my
workflow and needs better than any of the many alternatives I've
tried. And this release is working and was a major step in the right
direction.

[db]

Congratualtions Ugimon. I think you might be the first person to write
something positive about Chronos here, ever.

Just remember, final release has proven to be beta quality. Anyone who
trys enough times should be able to get better.