[Brian]

Sandi, the OmniFocus application and your OmniFocus database are stored in two separate locations, and the changes we made to the App won't affect your data at all. I've actually been running both versions on my machine here for a couple of weeks.

(There was a bug that could cause OmniFocus 1.6.0 to crash after 1.7 had worked with the database; maybe that's what you encountered?)

I also synced OmniFocus 1.7 (from work) with OmniFocus 1.6.1 (at home) until today. Didn't notice any problems with my data during that period. Basically, if you reinstall the OmniFocus 1.6.1 application from our website or from Time Machine, you should be able to pick up right where you left off.

Just don't let Time Machine touch any of the files in your Documents or Library folders and you should be okay.

[Ken Case]

Originally Posted by Brian

I also synced OmniFocus 1.7 (from work) with OmniFocus 1.6.1 (at home) until today. Didn't notice any problems with my data during that period.

You can sync 1.7 with 1.6.1 as long as you don't apply a custom user icon to a perspective. If you do, 1.7 stores the icon as an attachment, which causes 1.6.1 to crash because it can't figure out what's supposed to own that attachment (since it doesn't know about syncing perspectives).

[Sandi]

Originally Posted by Ken Case

You can sync 1.7 with 1.6.1 as long as you don't apply a custom user icon to a perspective. If you do, 1.7 stores the icon as an attachment, which causes 1.6.1 to crash because it can't figure out what's supposed to own that attachment (since it doesn't know about syncing perspectives).

Okay, that explains my problems as I had assigned custom icons to some of my perspectives. So if I use standard icons within Omnifocus that sync/crash problem between 1.6.1 and 1.7 should not happen?

BTW I did like the syncing of Perspectives between my Mac and MBP. Having spent ages setting them up in one place it was nice to see that work replicated on the other machine.

Had problems with syncing with iPhone where it lost all settings on MobileMe and removed all data from the phone but it appears to have found the database now and reimported all the information. Syncing is much quicker which is a bonus.

Have tried to revert to 1.6.1 on one machine so that I can compare versions, as I was not au fait enough with program to comment if something was better or not. But even using standard icon for a custom perspective caused the program to crash and refuse to open. Trying to revert to 1.6.1 on both machines caused crashes on both, so now I am trying to recover my database.

Sandi

[omnibob]

I restored my Perspectives using Time Machine, went back to 1.6.1, Perspectives worked, installed .1.7 (v77.32.0.117233), Perspectives are gone. Perspectives files still exist in my Perspectives folder. (Ticket to OG updated.)

Bob

[pjb]

Just went from 161 to 1.7 rev 117233 and my Perspectives were lost.

[Sandi]

Originally Posted by pjb

Just went from 161 to 1.7 rev 117233 and my Perspectives were lost.

I eventually managed to get 1.6.1 reinstalled and working. As there was an incompatability with the synced version on MobileMe I deleted it all from iDisk. I also had to delete the iPhone app as the sync from that caused a fatal error with 1.6.1. With that gone as well as the version held on MobileMe I was at long last able to restore the whole database from a backup prior to installing the sneak peak.

I would like to be able to work with both versions so that I can compare ease of use etc, but it has proved too problematic for me. I'm just pleased I'm back to where I was before I first installed 1.7.

Sandi

[pjb]

Originally Posted by pjb

Just went from 161 to 1.7 rev 117233 and my Perspectives were lost.

Removed .loaded and all my P's were imported using v. 117237.