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• INSTALLING BANKTIVITY ON ANOTHER MAC PLUS

When that didn’t work, I reached out to Banktivity support. I verified that the file was present in my local OneDrive folder and tried opening it again, with the same result.

INSTALLING BANKTIVITY ON ANOTHER MAC PLUS

On the plus side, Banktivity opened the file on the minus side, it appeared to be empty. A blank budget? That’s worse than no budget at all I used File > Open Recent, picked my Banktivity file, and saw… this. Interestingly, the dialog didn’t offer to let me open a previous file (this appears to be a bug, btw).

Instead of its normal behavior of opening the last-accessed file, I got a dialog asking me if I wanted to create a new file… never a good sign. This morning, I tried to open Banktivity. This seemed to go flawlessly and, as far as I could tell, all my OneDrive data was present. I can’t remember any time when I ever lost data from it, and as Microsoft has added better support for version history and better sync robustness, there have been any number of times where a buggy app or stupidity on my part would have caused data loss if not for the ability to snatch a file back from the jaws of death.Įarlier this week, I upgraded my Mac mini to macOS Monterey. OneDrive has been unfailingly reliable for me since before it was called Windows Live Mesh. Life was good.Īs I do with all my other important documents, I stored the Banktivity data in a folder in my personal OneDrive. I set it up to ingest my key banking and credit card accounts, let it gather some data, and started sketching out a budget. I used to use Quicken back in the day, but in an attempt to avoid anything having to do with Intuit, I decided to find an alternate app and quickly settled on Banktivity after seeing it mentioned on Daring Fireball. Just like my reaction when people say “yeah, I know, I should exercise but…” and I’m all like BUT EXERCISE IS THE GREATEST WHY WOULDN’T YOU JUST… that’s me with budgeting.) (brief editorial interruption: yes, I know, I know. In a recent spasm of optimism, I decided to start keeping, and sticking to, a budget.