My hand-crafted autoformatting rules gone after update to MLO 5

[Danila Sentyabov]

Anyone has encountered this?

Anyone knows how to get them back?

This is a disaster :(

[Jeff Smith]

Backups are a must for those who haven't lost anything yet. I don't trust 5 yet, sorry I don't know what might have happened but I expect it.

Especially before moving to the new version. Backups are often the only way to recover stuff like this.

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[Steve Neas]

I installed MLO5 today and I had the same concern.

I found that MLO had saved a backup copy of my auto-formatting rules before updating.  

Go to Options / Autoformatting / Import, then look for the backup copy in the same folder as your MLO data file. The file will be  named something like xxxx_autoformat_backup.mlaf .

This will append your old rules to the list of new rules, so you might need to re-organize them a bit.

[Ray Emerson]

First step...breathe! This is expected, because MLO 5 has a new set of default icons.

This is discussed in the MLO 5 upgrade documentation here (scroll to the Try MLO 5 now!) and read the procedure.

https://www.mylifeorganized.net/announcements/windows-mlo-5-upgrade.shtml

The upgrade of the MLO file splits information into a few different files. Your autoformatting rules should be in an MLAF file in the same folder as your migrated MLO file.

On Saturday, August 18, 2018 at 12:30:13 PM UTC-4, Danila Sentyabov wrote:

[Danila Sentyabov]

Steve,

Thank you for the instruction!

[Danila Sentyabov]

Thank you! What a relief :-)