Do It

Formerly known as ToDo

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Do It FAQs

1. I’ve upgraded to Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard) and I keep getting “Multiple Validation Errors Occurred” messages.  What do I do?
   

1. If you were running Do It version 2.5 on a mac with OS X 10.4, after upgrading that mac to OS X 10.5 Do It can have trouble writing that data to disc.  As Do It automatically saves its data every few minutes, a lot of these error messages can be displayed.  This issue has been fixed in version 2.6, which you can download from the link at the bottom of this page.
   

1. How do I remove Do It from .Mac Sync preferences?
   

1. Unfortunately Apple do not provide any way to remove an item from this list.  There are two parts to a sync’able application, the application itself, known as the sync client, and the sync schema, which is the definition of the data types that clients can sync.  What you see in the list in the prefs pane is a list of all the schemas registered on your mac.  Even when the client is unregistered, and the schema is unregistered, there is no guarantee that the schema will be removed from the list.
   

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3. There are a couple of things you can try.  Download this linked application.  It will unregister the Do It Client and the Do It Schema.  Try running it, then restarting you mac.  If that does not remove the item from the list, try backing up your sync data and reseting the sync data from the advanced tab in .mac prefs, Finally, try the 'Reset Sync History' option in iSync's preferences window.  None of these options will remove any of your data, but when you next sync you will be asked if you want to merge or replace your items in each category.  Finally, you can try using one of Apple’s developer’s tools, Syncrospector.  See this article for instructions.
   

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5. If none of this works, the only other way I know of to clear this list is to remove all the sync information from you library folder - but Apple do not recommend this, and neither do I, as it could possibly seriously cripple your computer's syncing and possibly destroy all your syncable data.  The simplest solution may be to ignore the item in the list (It seems that this is Apple's intention).
   

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7. There is some further info in this thread on MacOSXHints.com and on this article on Barebones.com. 
   

1. Why do I see ‘net.jimmcgowan.todoschema.todoitems’ in my.Mac Sync preferences?
   

1. Normally Do It should list its data as ‘Do It Lists’ in .Mac sync prefs.  If instead you are seeing net.jimmcgowan.todoschema.todoitems, your copy of the Do It application is no longer in the same location on your Hard Drive as it was when you ran it for the first time.  The .Mac sync prefs cannot locate the application to find the user friendly name and icon for the list of sync’able items.  To remedy this quit Do It, move the file <your home folder>/Library/Preferences/net.jimmcgowan.doit.plist to the trash, then re-open Do It.  This will cause Do It to reregister itself with .Mac sync prefs, from its new location.
   

1. Why does the black editor window keep changing size?
   

1. If there is more information available regarding the items in the editor window (i.e. the deadline, title, link, etc) it will display a [...] icon next to the item title.  If you move the mouse over this icon the window will expand to show you the extra information.  The window will shrink back to normal when the mouse moves out of that general area of the window.

Update:

Is your copy of Do It up to date?  Download the latest version here.