Hi, I’m having quite a few issues with the reliability of local tasks in eM Client 6. Quite often, reminders are removed, dates and times are changed and recurrences forgotten, leaving me with no confidence in what is actually being stored.
For example, if I create a Task with start, due and reminder dates of today at 8am, when I save and re-open, the reminder is now at 13:21 (which is the current time).
If I add a recurrence of every Wednesday to this task and then open the series, the due date is changed to 13:18 and unticked.
If I complete the task, a new one is created for next Wednesday, but, when I open the series, both due and reminder dates are disabled. If I correct the dates and times and save, the whole series seems to be reset back to the start (thus deleting any recurrences of the task on future dates). If I open the series, this whole thing starts again with the reminder date being changed. If I open only the occurrence at this point, the reminder date is disabled.
Are there known problems with the task system, as it doesn’t seem to work properly? I have a lot of recurring tasks, so this is quite important for me. I am happy to provide further information or help with debugging.
Hi John, thanks for getting back to me and I look forward to receiving the fix. In the meantime, what do you mean by a ‘zero-length’ task? Is there a way to workaround this bug until it is repaired?
Ah, of course. I’ve done a quick test and it seems to be slightly better if I have a task length, but there are still problems with the reminders on recurring tasks.
Hi Paul, I’ve run a quick test, but, unfortunately, it seems that tasks still perform as I describe in my original post. I think individual tasks might be okay, but there are definitely problems with due and reminder dates when adding a recurrence.
If you need any further information or testing from me, please let me know.
Hi, yes we’ve already made some changes in our current internal release, but thanks to your post I’ve just checked that there’s still some issues with this.
But I hope when a new update is released it will be working.