MyLifeOrganized for Windows 5.0 is out now!

[Alyona (MLO Support)]

Try the all-new app with many cool features like Synchronization with Google Calendar, Notes formatting with Markdown, Counters for tasks in views, Text tags and other things to discover. Read more on our website.

You may be wondering if it is wise to invest in upgrading. Here are the main reasons why the upgrade to MLO 5 is beneficial.

Thank you for choosing MyLifeOrganized!

[Jeff Smith]

Will you fix so the website doesn't still say current version is 4.4.8?

A bunch of problems were reported when it was available for testing (was it beta or alpha) but what I remember doesn't look fixed. If the things I need are not fixed yet can I still purchase 4.4.8 so that I can free upgrade later when things are fixed?

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[Alyona (MLO Support)]

Hi,

<< still say current version is 4.4.8?

Could you send us a screenshot?

<<A bunch of problems were reported when it was available for testing (was it beta or alpha) but what I remember doesn't look fixed.

We are still working on improvements and fixing bugs in MLO 5. It would help if you provide links to the posts where you reported issues that are still persist. Thank you.

<<If the things I need are not fixed yet can I still purchase 4.4.8 so that I can free upgrade later when things are fixed?

MLO 4 has been removed from sale. However, if you purchase MLO 5 now, you will get both activation codes: for MLO 5 and MLO 4.

On Tuesday, August 7, 2018 at 10:43:54 PM UTC+3, imajeff wrote:

Will you fix so the website doesn't still say current version is 4.4.8?

A bunch of problems were reported when it was available for testing (was it beta or alpha) but what I remember doesn't look fixed. If the things I need are not fixed yet can I still purchase 4.4.8 so that I can free upgrade later when things are fixed?

On Tue, Aug 7, 2018 at 12:23 PM Alyona (MLO Support) <alyonag...@gmail.com> wrote:

Try the all-new app with many cool features like Synchronization with Google Calendar, Notes formatting with Markdown, Counters for tasks in views, Text tags and other things to discover. Read more on our website.

You may be wondering if it is wise to invest in upgrading. Here are the main reasons why the upgrade to MLO 5 is beneficial.

Thank you for choosing MyLifeOrganized!

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[Jeff Smith]

On Wed, Aug 8, 2018 at 1:46 AM Alyona (MLO Support) <alyonag...@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi,

<< still say current version is 4.4.8?

Could you send us a screenshot?

It was resolved for me a few hours later. I might have had that part of the page still coming from Chrome browser cache. I tried holding down Ctrl and F5 which I think forces it to reload and update the cache. Looks find now.

<<A bunch of problems were reported when it was available for testing (was it beta or alpha) but what I remember doesn't look fixed.

We are still working on improvements and fixing bugs in MLO 5. It would help if you provide links to the posts where you reported issues that are still persist. Thank you.

I was a fan of the Linux version of MLO. Soon my main system will be Linux and somebody said there's a feature removed that allowed MLO to run on a Win emulator without crashing.

 

<<If the things I need are not fixed yet can I still purchase 4.4.8 so that I can free upgrade later when things are fixed?

MLO 4 has been removed from sale. However, if you purchase MLO 5 now, you will get both activation codes: for MLO 5 and MLO 4.

O I C thank you, that

[Will Shafferman]

I had the BETA version downloaded for the last couple of months, and just downloaded the most recent update when it popped up in the app. And after this download, my desktop MLO app is super laggy. Anyone else getting these issues?

[Hein Daddl]

Hey,

thx for the update. But I have two questions: Will FTP Update be avilable for all clients in 5 incl. mobile?

If not: How do I downgrade to 4?

BrG

[Warren Butt]

I didn't see anything about this in the post from the beta but I've been having this issue for a while now:

With both Sync MLO and Sync Google Calendar I am able to set them up and do the initial sync, and it works just fine the first time, but after half an hour or so I start getting errors during sync. Google calendar reports a vague "Calendar Sync Error: JSON response is null." but Sync MLO gives a much longer error message "Unable to load WSDL file/Location {https://.../MLOInetSync.asmx?wsdl} Error [authenticationrequired (407) {...}]" This appears to be a proxy error as the proxy authentication is subject to timeout and needs to be refreshed. Proxy token validation should be checked for, caught and handled in the sync code before an external call is attempted, however I'm required to force an authentication refresh by closing MLO and relaunching it instead as it insists on holding on to the bad authentication. When I'm entering tasks via mobile in a meeting then categorizing them back at my desk this is a break in my workflow to have to restart MLO when I get back just to pull the new tasks from the cloud.

[Jonas]

Am Donnerstag, 23. August 2018 09:25:12 UTC+2 schrieb Hein Daddl:

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If not: How do I downgrade to 4?

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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.

[darkUXpatterns]

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.

[Chris Randle]

On 2018-09-24 15:21, darkUXpatterns wrote:
> 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. *
In MLO v5, from the File menu select "Save as..." and then
"MyLifeOrganized Data File MLO4 (*.ml)" from the "Save as type" drop list.

I do think that this needs to be somewhere obvious (I couldn't find
mention if it at all) in the help file.

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[Jeff Smith]

So we can save our ToDo list data if MLO 5 still is operational, but
What can I do if my trial is over and it doesn't let me open my data any
more? It only lets me create a new data file.

On 9/25/2018 00:07, Chris Randle wrote:
> On 2018-09-24 15:21, darkUXpatterns wrote:
>> 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. *
> In MLO v5, from the File menu select "Save as..." and then
> "MyLifeOrganized Data File MLO4 (*.ml)" from the "Save as type" drop
> list.
>
> I do think that this needs to be somewhere obvious (I couldn't find
> mention if it at all) in the help file.
>

[Cloud Lau]

No support to Asia Characters in the file link, we the Asia users need to manually typing <> before linking a Chinese-name file, come on guys, it's Version 5.0 now...

[Stéph]

Imajeff, you’ll have to find someone you trust, with a cooy of MLO5, who can convert it back for you. If there’s no sensitive information in the task list, I’d be more than happy to do that for you. If you ask the developers, they too may be willing to convert it for you.

Regards,
Stéphane

[Jeff Smith]

nope my best solution was to lose what I did (which wasn't much) on mlo5
by finding an automatic backup just before the upgrade and restore that.
It wasn't easy but was better than what you suggested in that case.

So you are confirming that this is a very bad thing MLO is doing by
tricking people into thinking it would be simple to agree to try 5 and
then just go back to 4.x when it isn't ready. There is no warning that
all these things will happen, yet they are very aware that it will
happen. Bad choice all around.

[Bart]

On Tuesday, August 7, 2018 at 12:23:07 PM UTC-6, Alyona (MLO Support) wrote:

I have tried sending 2 emails to sup...@mylifeorganized.net, but both bounced.  This was in the transcript:

 

   ----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors -----
<sup...@mylifeorganized.net> 

    (reason: 550 216.200.145.35 blacklisted at dnsbl.dronebl.org)

Thought I should let you know. 

[Klint Finley]

I just tried to download MLO 5.0 from the website, but Chrome is blocking the download, saying MLO-Setup.exe is dangerous.

[koala3]

I downloaded version 5 and it looks good.

I tried to pay and register and get it over with rather than wait x number of days.

It was late at night and I seemed to be going around in circles.

What puzzled me is that the MLO website should already KNOW what version I have paid

for and should already know what I need to pay to register for version 5. I couldn't remember,

and even when I had a stab at it, I seemed to get it wrong both ways.

It's simply too hard to pay for version 5. Can you simplify it please.

[otsn...@gmail.com]

I do not like the new app and want to go back to the old version, but no one is answering me.  Ive paid for syncing which I have not been able to do.  No one from support is contacting me.  How could you take a good app and destroy it by merging with Google (aka I SPY)

On Tuesday, August 7, 2018 at 2:23:07 PM UTC-4, Alyona (MLO Support) wrote:

[Joel]

otsnotary, what do you mean by "merged" with Google?  The only feature that uses Google at all is the calendar sync. If you don't want anything to do with Google then just don't use the calendar sync.

Joel

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