Yesterday I experienced yet another of these ugly shortcomings in MacOS and that was the trigger I needed to air a few improvements I've in mind for a while with both iOS and MacOS. 1. I'll start with the trigger: I spent way too long to recover old data from OmniFocus.Let's be clear: the only function of a backup is to be restored. Restoring data is all about availability1 in terms of ACCESSIBILITY of the data to be restored and of the restore mechanism. With a personal computer, NOW is the unit of time to be aimed for. In details, what went wrong in the whole process: Omnifocus' Show backups in Finder function didn't bring me to the place where my backups were saved... in 2022. Software upgrade shouldn't mean old backups amnesia. I found the location of the backups by looking in the Ominigroup website. Eventually I found a gruelling path2. Incidentally, I haven't stumbled on any information that would tell me where this app stores my data. I didn't find it in the usual places:…
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