[ramekin]

I'm attempting to recover my OF after a tragic crash last week, but my backup xml file is not recognized.

Specifically -- "Unrecognizable transaction file name 'B0A416EB-7833-4258-A047-59DEEFAF57E9C80989A8-CCC9-485E-AD42-C88AE8EE6D0F.xml'."

The backup file is attached in a zip - can anyone shed light onto what the problem might be?

Thanks!

[Tim Wood]

You can use Show Package Contents on the .ofocus file and rename root=B0A416EB-7833-4258-A047-59DEEFAF57E9C80989A8-CCC9-485E-AD42-C88AE8EE6D0F.xml to root=B0A416EB-7833-4258-A047-59DEEFAF57E9C80989A8-CCC9-485E-AD42-C88AE8EE6D0F.xml to root=B0A416EB-7833-4258-A047-59DEEFAF57E9:C80989A8-CCC9-485E-AD42-C88AE8EE6D0F.xml

(note the ":" in the middle).

How did this file get in this state? If you can reproduce OmniFocus doing this, please let us know how as soon as possible.

[Tim Wood]

Trying this in Finder, I see that it won't let you do the rename there. Here is a fixed copy.

OmniFocus 2007-11-26 111406.ofocus 2.zip

[ramekin]

I was unable to add a colon in finder, but I used a slash and that worked for recovery! Thanks

[ramekin]

As background:

- Originally, I was using 10.4 and backing up using Mozy.
- Upon replacing my HDD, I installed 10.5
- Restored backed up files from Mozy into 10.5, and none of the OF backup files have a colon in their xml file names.

Don't know if its a Mozy situation or a 10.5 situation, but hopefully that helps.

[Tim Wood]

Ah; interesting! I'm guessing the round-trip through Mozy is the issue. The ":" was probably rejected by Finder for legacy OS9 HFS reasons (the "/" is turned into a ":" behind the scenes now).

Mozy may be doing some sort of "Mac-aware" file name mapping that is causing this. Of course, I'm only guessing this is the case -- I haven't tried Mozy, so you might try pushing your file through them and back again to see if it happens again. If so, I'd recommend asking them to fix the issue so other folks doing get hit by this.

Thanks for the extra details!

[kebmo19]

I had exactly the same issue (leopard backup, leopard restore) using mozy to backup the documents folder which includes "Omni Focus Backups", thanks for the solution! i'm concerned about mozy now, that was scary! ~K