Disappearing foods
elbon5555
Posts: 2 Member
I've entered a number of foods for my diary through scanning and manually and they seem to disappear after a while. Entering and creating foods constantly is not acceptable. I was so pleased with myfitnesspal that I bought the premium version. I will soon be cancelling my account if this is the standard function.
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Did you go to MY FOODS and search?2
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If you're using the website the recent foods only holds 100 items in it. In the app, however, everything stays and is searchable.1
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If you're using the website the recent foods only holds 100 items in it. In the app, however, everything stays and is searchable.
Sadly, not everything. In one of the updates, they made it so entries more than X period of time (I can't remember what it is, but I know it's not a year -- it's shorter than that) no longer appear if you start to type them in. Hugely frustrating for once a year things like Thanksgiving, travel (if you go to the same place), etc.2 -
collectingblues wrote: »If you're using the website the recent foods only holds 100 items in it. In the app, however, everything stays and is searchable.
Sadly, not everything. In one of the updates, they made it so entries more than X period of time (I can't remember what it is, but I know it's not a year -- it's shorter than that) no longer appear if you start to type them in. Hugely frustrating for once a year things like Thanksgiving, travel (if you go to the same place), etc.
I can't be sure, but for the Recent list query (predictive text search) of the Food Diary, I don't think there is a time period cutoff. I would think it is most likely a mobile device memory storage limitation. Most apps set aside a maximum amount of total memory to include the required app software programming memory storage and some minimum data memory storage on the mobile device's memory. As the data storage fills up to the maximum total memory set aside, normally the older data would need to get bumped off of the limited mobile storage in favor of the more recent data saved. In other words, only a subset of the data can be downloaded and stored on the mobile device; when it gets full, older data gets the boot in favor of newer data.4 -
collectingblues wrote: »If you're using the website the recent foods only holds 100 items in it. In the app, however, everything stays and is searchable.
Sadly, not everything. In one of the updates, they made it so entries more than X period of time (I can't remember what it is, but I know it's not a year -- it's shorter than that) no longer appear if you start to type them in. Hugely frustrating for once a year things like Thanksgiving, travel (if you go to the same place), etc.
I can't be sure, but for the Recent list query (predictive text search) of the Food Diary, I don't think there is a time period cutoff. I would think it is most likely a mobile device memory storage limitation. Most apps set aside a maximum amount of total memory to include the required app software programming memory storage and some minimum data memory storage on the mobile device's memory. As the data storage fills up to the maximum total memory set aside, normally the older data would need to get bumped off of the limited mobile storage in favor of the more recent data saved. In other words, only a subset of the data can be downloaded and stored on the mobile device; when it gets full, older data gets the boot in favor of newer data.
All i know is that after an app update... maybe a year ago? ... where a lot of the reviews complained about wiping out past foods, I haven't had full results since. Regardless of phone.
They also don't appear in the web version for me.0 -
collectingblues wrote: »collectingblues wrote: »If you're using the website the recent foods only holds 100 items in it. In the app, however, everything stays and is searchable.
Sadly, not everything. In one of the updates, they made it so entries more than X period of time (I can't remember what it is, but I know it's not a year -- it's shorter than that) no longer appear if you start to type them in. Hugely frustrating for once a year things like Thanksgiving, travel (if you go to the same place), etc.
I can't be sure, but for the Recent list query (predictive text search) of the Food Diary, I don't think there is a time period cutoff. I would think it is most likely a mobile device memory storage limitation. Most apps set aside a maximum amount of total memory to include the required app software programming memory storage and some minimum data memory storage on the mobile device's memory. As the data storage fills up to the maximum total memory set aside, normally the older data would need to get bumped off of the limited mobile storage in favor of the more recent data saved. In other words, only a subset of the data can be downloaded and stored on the mobile device; when it gets full, older data gets the boot in favor of newer data.
All i know is that after an app update... maybe a year ago? ... where a lot of the reviews complained about wiping out past foods, I haven't had full results since. Regardless of phone.
They also don't appear in the web version for me.
Are you using iOS or Android? I've got MFP for Android, but an old version (4.8) from around September 2015. Since my Diary goes back to July 2013, my Android version always dropped older items when the data storage limit was reached. I wonder if the roll-out of the "Restaurant" logging feature, or some of the newer app features required more programming storage and the data storage allocation was sacrificed for the newer app features. Just speculating here.1 -
collectingblues wrote: »collectingblues wrote: »If you're using the website the recent foods only holds 100 items in it. In the app, however, everything stays and is searchable.
Sadly, not everything. In one of the updates, they made it so entries more than X period of time (I can't remember what it is, but I know it's not a year -- it's shorter than that) no longer appear if you start to type them in. Hugely frustrating for once a year things like Thanksgiving, travel (if you go to the same place), etc.
I can't be sure, but for the Recent list query (predictive text search) of the Food Diary, I don't think there is a time period cutoff. I would think it is most likely a mobile device memory storage limitation. Most apps set aside a maximum amount of total memory to include the required app software programming memory storage and some minimum data memory storage on the mobile device's memory. As the data storage fills up to the maximum total memory set aside, normally the older data would need to get bumped off of the limited mobile storage in favor of the more recent data saved. In other words, only a subset of the data can be downloaded and stored on the mobile device; when it gets full, older data gets the boot in favor of newer data.
All i know is that after an app update... maybe a year ago? ... where a lot of the reviews complained about wiping out past foods, I haven't had full results since. Regardless of phone.
They also don't appear in the web version for me.
Are you using iOS or Android? I've got MFP for Android, but an old version (4.8) from around September 2015. Since my Diary goes back to July 2013, my Android version always dropped older items when the data storage limit was reached. I wonder if the roll-out of the "Restaurant" logging feature, or some of the newer app features required more programming storage and the data storage allocation was sacrificed for the newer app features. Just speculating here.
iOS -- definitely a newer version than September 2015, though.0
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