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Charlie5	Posted: Jul 19, 2019 Score: 3 Reference Charlie5 Posted: Jul 19, 2019 Score: 3 Reference I've posted about this repeatedly. Happened to me just now. I created a search filter with the following: Checked Off - Yes Repeat is - Any This will immediately find any repeat task that has not regenerated. I've made this a part of my daily routine.
jogo2	Posted: Jul 20, 2019 Score: 1 Reference jogo2 Posted: Jul 20, 2019 Score: 1 Reference Posted by Charlie5: I've posted about this repeatedly. Happened to me just now. I created a search filter with the following: Checked Off - Yes Repeat is - Any This will immediately find any repeat task that has not regenerated. I've made this a part of my daily routine. Good idea. I just used it and found 2 tasks that didn't regenerate... Thanks for posting this!
Ob-La-Di+ruben	Posted: Jul 20, 2019 Score: 2 Reference Ob-La-Di+ruben Posted: Jul 20, 2019 Score: 2 Reference Having to do that check really defeats the purpose of having repeating task functionality at all. And the possibilities of things falling thru the cracks are enormous for all of us using repeat and forgetting to do a manual check as you are. I take it you have not received any response from dev/support about this (awful) bug?
Charlie5	Posted: Jul 25, 2019 Score: 1 Reference Charlie5 Posted: Jul 25, 2019 Score: 1 Reference No, they haven't told us anything yet. I posted about it in October: https://www.toodledo.com/forums/2/26283/0/recurring-tasks-not-recurring.html And in December: https://www.toodledo.com/forums/2/26367/0/repeating-tasks-failing-to-repeat.html Others have posted as well.
Ob-La-Di+ruben	Posted: Jul 27, 2019 Score: 0 Reference Ob-La-Di+ruben Posted: Jul 27, 2019 Score: 0 Reference It's interesting that Anant said earlier that this code has been untouched for at least 4 years. By implication, it seems, he's saying that this bug has been around for at least that long. It's a pretty bad bug for anyone using repeat on important tasks so it's curious how it could have gone unnoticed in all that time if it's been around so long. I take it that no one else ran across this or reported it in all this time?
Duo	Posted: Jul 27, 2019 Score: 1 Reference Duo Posted: Jul 27, 2019 Score: 1 Reference Posted by rubenB: It's interesting that Anant said earlier that this code has been untouched for at least 4 years. By implication, it seems, he's saying that this bug has been around for at least that long. It's a pretty bad bug for anyone using repeat on important tasks so it's curious how it could have gone unnoticed in all that time if it's been around so long. I take it that no one else ran across this or reported it in all this time? Hmmm, what he actually said was, "This bug can be traced back to 4 years." Now that doesn't mean that the bug was active during that period. Jake could have edited it out, mitigated it, fixed it and now the new team have done something to activate it. Not saying that's what happened but it's a possibility. I am a very, very heavy user of recurring tasks (many every day, every other day, several a week, several per month, quarterly, bi-annually, every 9 months, annually) and if there is an issue with them I notice right away (as I have done when there are issues on other platforms). I have never run into this bug and I never saw any complaints about it before, although my not running into the bug and not seeing the odd complaint doesn't really mean much. However, I have never seen a barrage of complaints like I have now and I know that now many people who used Toodledo heavily over the past 4 years no longer use it. So now we have a stream of complaints with many heavy users no longer using the product. I think this bug was introduced/re-introduced/activated/re-activated or whatever by code changes made by the new team. I admit that I could be wrong, but then I look at how they implemented multi-select and I'm not so sure that I am.
Ob-La-Di+ruben	Posted: Jul 29, 2019 Score: 0 Reference Ob-La-Di+ruben Posted: Jul 29, 2019 Score: 0 Reference Thanks, Duo. That was very helpful. I use repeat a lot too and it's concerning if I can't depend on deterministic (or rather correct) behavior regarding that.
GSP1963	Posted: Aug 11, 2019 Score: 0 Reference GSP1963 Posted: Aug 11, 2019 Score: 0 Reference So am I correct in thinking this nasty bug, first reported in May, still hasn't been fixed?
Charlie5	Posted: Aug 14, 2019 Score: 1 Reference Charlie5 Posted: Aug 14, 2019 Score: 1 Reference Correct. I just had one not repeat today.
SirLouen	Posted: Aug 16, 2019 Score: 1 Reference SirLouen Posted: Aug 16, 2019 Score: 1 Reference I've implemented the @Charlie5 filter and everything is gone way better Now I can even check 5 or 6 dailies at once and I don't mind about this, because I promptly check the filter and I resolve the issue fast But this is huge dangerous bug for such a task system What it's quite intriguing is what @Duo comments. A heavy recurring user not falling into this? The most common scenario happens with checking multiple dailies at once So it's extremely easy to reproduce this bug: 1. Create a lot of dailies, 40 or 50 2. Check them all at once in groups of 10 3. You will see that at least 1 or 2 will end the recurring process. Maybe there is a sync issue or something. But months continue without this being solved.
Duo	Posted: Aug 16, 2019 Score: 1 Reference Duo Posted: Aug 16, 2019 Score: 1 Reference Posted by SirLouen: [...] What it's quite intriguing is what @Duo comments. A heavy recurring user not falling into this? The most common scenario happens with checking multiple dailies at once So it's extremely easy to reproduce this bug: 1. Create a lot of dailies, 40 or 50 2. Check them all at once in groups of 10 3. You will see that at least 1 or 2 will end the recurring process. Maybe there is a sync issue or something. But months continue without this being solved. @SirLouen I read your comment and it made me realise that I need to clarify something - I USED to be a heavy Toodledo user but not any more. I stopped using Toodledo for anything other than tasks that only had to be reviewed every few months and historical data shortly after Jake left. I haven't been in a position to know whether recurring tasks work or not since last year. I NEVER ran into this issue during my many years of heavy usage while Jake was running the show and I didn't see a stream of reports either. What I wrote previously does not make the critical point that I have not used the software for recurring tasks since before changes were made by the new owners. Posted by Duo: [...] I am a very, very heavy user of recurring tasks (many every day, every other day, several a week, several per month, quarterly, bi-annually, every 9 months, annually) and if there is an issue with them I notice right away (as I have done when there are issues on other platforms). I have never run into this bug and I never saw any complaints about it before, although my not running into the bug and not seeing the odd complaint doesn't really mean much. However, I have never seen a barrage of complaints like I have now and I know that now many people who used Toodledo heavily over the past 4 years no longer use it. [...] Apologies. This should have contained a statement to the effect that I no longer use this platform in that way. Without that it is misleading as to my recent and current usage. I had planned to add something about that as well as pointing out that if I were experiencing those issues and had still been using Toodledo I would have stopped almost immediately.
SirLouen	Posted: Aug 17, 2019 Score: 0 Reference SirLouen Posted: Aug 17, 2019 Score: 0 Reference Who is Jack?
Duo	Posted: Aug 17, 2019 Score: 0 Reference Duo Posted: Aug 17, 2019 Score: 0 Reference Posted by SirLouen: Who is Jack? Jake was the creator of Toodledo. He ran it for many years up until last year: https://www.toodledo.com/forums/1/25931/0/future-plans.html
SirLouen	Posted: Aug 23, 2019 Score: 0 Reference SirLouen Posted: Aug 23, 2019 Score: 0 Reference Posted by Duo: Posted by SirLouen: Who is Jack? Jake was the creator of Toodledo. He ran it for many years up until last year: https://www.toodledo.com/forums/1/25931/0/future-plans.html Ok, well... who knows... this has been unresolved for quite a while now. This message was edited Aug 23, 2019.
Louen	Posted: Nov 29, 2019 Score: 0 Reference Louen Posted: Nov 29, 2019 Score: 0 Reference I feel this bug is going worse every day. In the past I only had 1 or 2 at most recurring tasks lost Now I'm having more than 4 every day...
Louen	Posted: Dec 28, 2019 Score: 0 Reference Louen Posted: Dec 28, 2019 Score: 0 Reference This bug now happens regularly. For a developer this should be extremely easy to spot but still no solutions. Is this software about to be discontinued or something?
pawelkaleta	Posted: Dec 28, 2019 Score: 4 Reference pawelkaleta Posted: Dec 28, 2019 Score: 4 Reference Posted by Louen: Is this software about to be discontinued or something? No, of course not! Because it's already dead.
Louen	Posted: Dec 30, 2019 Score: 1 Reference Louen Posted: Dec 30, 2019 Score: 1 Reference Posted by pawelkaleta: Posted by Louen: Is this software about to be discontinued or something? No, of course not! Because it's already dead. Great news :(
Louen	Posted: Feb 19, 2020 Score: 0 Reference Louen Posted: Feb 19, 2020 Score: 0 Reference I've noticed that this incidence has been slightly reduced lately?
Louen	Posted: Mar 22, 2020 Score: 0 Reference Louen Posted: Mar 22, 2020 Score: 0 Reference Nearly one year later, no news from the developers about this issue.