I launched OmniFocus 3 for Mac for the first time and noticed that File > Open Archive is greyed out. Presumably, this is because OF 3 is looking in a different location for the archive. Is it possible to recover my old archive?
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Sure! The easiest way is to archive from OmniFocus 3, at which point OmniFocus should offer to copy the old archive over for you, if you have updated from OmniFocus 2 on the same Mac.
Alternately, you can search for Archive.ofocus to find the current location.
If you were using OmniFocus 2 before, by default, the archive is located at Users ▸ username ▸ Library ▸ Containers ▸ com.omnigroup.OmniFocus2 ▸ Data ▸ Library ▸ Application Support ▸ OmniFocus.
Put a copy of the older local archive into Users ▸ username ▸ Library ▸ Containers ▸ com.omnigroup.OmniFocus3 ▸ Data ▸ Library ▸ Application Support ▸ OmniFocus.
Thanks,
Lanette
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This is what you want to do. Rooting around in the OmniFocus container shouldn’t be necessary.
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Perfect! Nearly 11 years of data in that archive. 🤓
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You forgot to add the disclaimer … shouldn’t be necessary when OF had a decent way to “Move Project to Archive”.
I did muck about in the OF container precisely because I dislike the current archiving method.
Now, I cannot get the Archive to accept a copy + paste operation (my preferred MO). Is anyone else having this problem?
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JJW
