MYOB offline being phased out
I Just received an email regarding the phasing out of the desktop library I’m pretty disgusted that this is happening and having to have all files online and was told this would be happening mid Jun...
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"Glad to have you rejoined the conversation." MYOB represents a very small proportion of my actual work, its just the accounts for purchases, and invoices, as well as end of year, by day I design electronic hardware, so im not going to sit here wasting my time, when work is busy.
MYOB needs to realise that not all of us use MYOB all day every day, and a lot of us only need the basic features, and want to work off line not online. I do not trust other off site services with my work flows, I keep them here on my PC. I use offsite for back up only.
Was just trying to be friendly there Peter, that's all
Being friendly would be not removing features that people need, and giving more than 7 days notice of major changes.
Obviously, with the l-o-n-g wait time, MYOB has a lot of flaws with their program and customers are NOT happy.Turn off auto updates as I want the option to update myself, like it used to be! I downloaded 2026.4SE for an offline file and then the next day it updated to 2026.5SE. If I wasn't paying attention, I could have upgrade my offline file to 2026.5SE and then I wouldn't be able to back up offline and would have needed to restore the file once I downloaded 2026.4SE again. MYOB is becoming a CONTROLLING NIGHTMARE.
Re-Instate backups offline for all MYOB files. Don't say it can't be done, as it can. I still have a client using 2026.5 online that can still back up offline. Just put it back on.
Hey everyone,
Let's stay respectful on this forum. The moderators are only trying to answer questions and provide assistance. They cannot make MYOB change things straight away.
I think both the moderators and MYOB are now very aware of our disagreement over the loss of offline backups and working offline. Mike has posted that they are reviewing what can be done. Unless there is a brand new issue or possible point of view, I think it would be best to not continue to cover points already covered.
Cheers, Bronwyn
Hi MJBook
We are all strung out over the changes, but Bronwyn is correct - being respectful actually gets things done quicker - we all are angry, that is permissible.
Mike cannot roll back MYOB - that is another department - but we ' the users' are being heard for something as an alternative.
Now, your point re AR SE 2026.5 & 2026.5 - AR SE 2026.5 is still able to access online and open 2026.5 files and back up locally and open them locally.
There is a post on this subject I wrote - yes MYOB rolled out an update for AR SE 2026.5 to stop it seeing the online files and hence opening and backing up - it was an update from 2026.5.0 to 2026.5.0 - yep sneaky. But the previous version should still be on your computer.
Open the shortcut on your desktop for AR SE 2026.5 and in the Target and Start in lines change the ...\app-2026.500.10023 back to .......1.0015 and you will then be able to see the online files and back up still.
Now this part is important - R click the icon again - select 'open file location' now click the up arrow on explorer - you need to get to C:\Program Files (x86)\MYOB\AccountRightServerEdition directory where you will see an exe called update.exe put an underscore () after the last e i.e. update.exe_ and this stops it running else it will roll you back to version 1.0023
That is it - back online and able to do back ups locally.
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