Possible to undo synchronization?

[Andy Johnson]

I was trying to set up a one-way sync from Outlook to MLO (just to pull tasks from Outlook to MLO) but something went wrong and it deleted everything from MLO that was not in Outlook.

Is there any way to recover a sync from a previous changeset so that I don't lose all that data?

[Stéph]

Hello Andy,

I'm afraid that depends on whether you set up automatic backups. That option is available in MLO's menu under Tools - Options - Backup. I'm not aware of any way to reverse a sync, other than to reload a backup file.

[Alyona (MLO Support)]

It's not possible to reverse a sync, but it's possible to restore data.

On each ’save’ action MLO creates a backup file first and you can always open it if there are any problems with the main file. Backup files might be created in 2 two possible places:

- If advanced backup config is set - MLO creates the backup copy in the location specified in the configuration under ’Tools’, ’Options’, ’Backup’.
- If  advanced backup config is not set, MLO automatically creates the copy in the same folder where you data file is located

Backup file has the same name as a data file has but with .bak extension. Open this file with MLO application and select ’Save as..’ to save your data in .ml format.

[Andy Johnson]

Oh my gosh that worked! Thank you so much, I found the .sync.bak file fro, before I messed things up. This saved me a lot of work!