Strange repeating project / repeating action behavior

OmniFocus
#1

I have been experiencing a weird an issue and I’m wondering if any of you have come across it. I have a project that repeats weekly. In that project there are a series of actions. Sometime ago, I moved two additional actions into that project. Those new actions both repeating and I had initially neglected to disable the repeat. The first time the task came due, I noticed the repeating actions within the project after I clicked one done and it respawned. I edited the task to disable the repeat.

Then after I completed all the tasks in the project, the project respawns as it should, and the actions all show up as non-repeating. But then when the task comes due, those two tasks have somehow been reset as repeating.

This has been happening for weeks and I finally started thinking I was crazy. So, last week I took a screenshot after I completed the project and it respawned. As I thought, none of the actions in that project were repeating. I checked again tonight (the project is due tomorrow) and lo and behold, those two tasks are showing to be set to repeat.

I don’t touch this project during the week. I don’t have any scripts that I believe are interacting with that project or those actions.

Have any of you seen something like this? Any idea how to resolve it?

#2

What happens if you recreate the two separate actions afresh in the Project; and delete those which you actually moved into it - in case they brought some inherent repeating attributes with them?

#3

what are the “repeat from this item” settings? Completion date or assigned dates?

#4

From “assigned date.” Specifically: [Every week, on Saturday, from Assigned Dates.)

#5

I just tried that last night. We’ll have to wait until next week to find out. I’ll report back.

If it does fix it, I’ll be happy it’s fixed but I will feel a touch of disappointment that this mystery will not be resolved. The case of the existential tasks that just want to repeat no matter how you set them.

#6

What happens if you set them to completion date? (I had almost the same issue, was caused by that)

#7

I’ll try that next and see what happens. It’s so bizarre.

#8

can you share a screenshot of the inspector for the project and the task?

#9

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