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Cool :D – REBELinBLUE, on October 02, 2009 15:03

As do I, the new all accounts view is much nicer.

Although I still wish -£0.00 would become £0.00 and black not red but that is a minor thing.

One minor suggestion, add a favourites feature so you can add some accounts to the sidebar so you can easily get to them from other views.

Ah, hadn't realised that was a backup made on every upgrade, thought it was a backup made every launch.

I take it that it is pointless adding transactions currently as we'd need to revert to the backup to get our categories back, or will you be simply copying the categories across?

Cheers

Out of interest, where are the backups created because I can't find them, only the iPhone backups.

Hi,

Thanks for the latest beta, having a play now.

It has added the badget for the current month, but not the missing months so I have July 2009 and then October 2009. Is there anyway to add the missing ones?

I don't get why they don't do it, it isn't as if they can rollback to the old syncing code (not that that would be easy anyway) because by their own admission on twitter they haven't been using a VCS. Currently we're all sitting here completely locked out of our financial data, if they just released the new beta at least we'd have access to it.

Yes it might confuse some users that they can't sync the iPhone app for a while, but no more so than getting a message about expiration and being directed to a blog post that essentially says we are currently screwed.

MA, I love the product, I really do, but this is becoming beyond a joke now. I understand that yesterday was a bad day for you, but for weeks you've been saying you have a new beta ready to drop the day 1.6 is published, it is a waste of time, resources and energy to try and get it syncing with 1.5 (not to mention a rush job possibly introducing bugs) so just pull the trigger and release what you were going to. – REBELinBLUE, on October 01, 2009 21:12

What I don't get is why it took 2 rejections.

Seriously I can't believe Apple work like that, find 1 thing they object to and then stop the review.

Why the hell don't they do the full review of an app and then give developers a full list of things they object to rather than 1 every 2+ weeks, it is an insane way to work.

I bought an iPhone SDK book quite some time ago but these countless AppStore horror stories are exactly what has stopped me from bothering to open it. – REBELinBLUE, on September 30, 2009 08:40

Apple have really screwed things up, they've rejected the latest update to the iPhone app after nearly 5 weeks.

The next beta needs to new version of the iPhone app to sync so I'm not sure what MA are going to do yet but I hope they sort something out (my suggestion would just be to release the latest beta but make it clear it won't be able to sync, it is better losing sync than losing access completely)

Done

Yes B99 – REBELinBLUE, on September 26, 2009 19:53

It already works with SL for me – REBELinBLUE, on September 26, 2009 12:54

I can only imagine how frustrating it is. The company I work for submitted our first app to Apple on the 9th, on Wednesday the boss asked if we had heard anything from Apple and I just burst out laughing because of the ridiculous time things like Cha-Ching, Dropbox & Spotify have taken to get any response. But sure enough we got a response yesterday afternoon and it was published late last night, which makes this own thing even more frustrating. >_< – REBELinBLUE, on September 26, 2009 08:10

I understand your reasoning but other products actually encrypt your data without having problems with users forgetting their password (1password for example).

Why should the majority compromise on security because of the minority?

If it stays the same I think you should at least add a note to the password option screen in Cha-Ching so people know that there data is NOT encrypted, possibly with a link to a page suggesting ways to improve the situation (detailing things like using File Vault, storing the Cha-Ching folder in an encrypted disk image etc) – REBELinBLUE, on September 26, 2009 08:08

So any ideas?

Yeah I emailed as well and surprise surprise got no reply. Pretty sure that isn't the first time they've said to email beta@midnightapps.com and then never responded.

I love Cha-Ching but it is beginning to get a bit silly now, as a developer myself I understand the problems Midnightapps face but I also recognise this development pattern and it rarely ends well, Cha-Ching 2 has been in beta for over a year, with no end of the beta in sight, updates fix some bugs but break other things (the last one broke smart folders for me) and then there is nothing for months. Little word from MA, maybe the odd tweet or response here but that is rare. Just after a release there is a very days/week activity and then they go silent again.

I understand that you are waiting for Apple to pull their fingers out before you can release the next beta because of changes to the syncing code, but more frequent updates should be something you aim for, this is a beta product not a final product, there are many bugs you can fix before even adding new features especially when those changes then depend on changes to the iPhone app. In future why not fix bugs and get a new beta out sooner rather than adding new features that then means you delay the desktop release, have to update the iPhone release and then can't release either until Apple have approved the iPhone app.

I don't mean to sound overly harsh, I really love Cha-Ching, but I can understand why people are getting really fed up now. As I said I am a developer so I understand the problems you face which is why I am I more inclined to wait longer but other people aren't, as seen by the fake that this comes up time and time again. Once again the major problem is communication, update the blog weekly or even bi-weekly just to let people know what you've done recently, what you've fixed or implemented, "it'll be ready soon" just doesn't cut it for most people as there is nothing but your word that anything has been done, nothing the end user can actually see to reassure themselves that things are actually progressing. – REBELinBLUE, on September 23, 2009 19:10