Recent Mint change has broken Mojito

Hi All,

It appears that Mint.com has made a change today (26-May-2016) that is causing Mojito to fail with the following error:

Unable to determine if Mint is ready. Error: <error><code>1</code><description>Session has expired.</description><name></name><type></type></error>

The cause of the problem is unknown at this point. Unfortunately, I am in the middle of a multi-week vacation, so my ability to debug and fix it is severely hampered. I'll see what I can do, but I can't make an promises as to when the issue will be fixed.

In the meantime, please use Mint.com directly. Sorry for the inconvenience.

-b3

Oops! Mojito 1.1.5.1 is Broken

Hi Mojito Users,

I was doing some maintenance to Mojito to address a change Google will be making to their "Apps Script" for Google Sheets. In the process of testing my changes, I accidentally deleted the version of MojitoLib (a code library) that Mojito 1.1.5.1 is using. It was as easy as clicking the mouse twice instead of once ... and it was gone, with no way to get it back (!!). Ugh ... thanks Google.

To remedy this mistake, I have released a new version of MojitoLib. However, you will either need to download a new copy of Mojito, or you can upgrade your copy of Mojito to version 1.1.5.2 (assuming you are using Mojito 1.1.5.1, which is the current version as of this writing).

To upgrade your copy of Mojito, follow the easy steps on the FAQ page.

I apologize for this accident and hope the inconvenience is minimal.

-b3

Mint login problem - Fixed

Several users have reported a Mint sync and login problem from Mojito. The initial login succeeds, but after a few seconds the login window appears again, repeating over and over.

I have been able to reproduce the problem but have not identified the root cause yet. I will continue to investigate as time allows (given the holidays and all).

Thanks,
-b3

Update (2014-12-21):

I have found the problem and am fixing it. Give me a day or so to update the Download page with the new version.

Unfortunately, the fix requires a small change in the login code, which I have always kept in the script attached to the spreadsheet (so you can see exactly what the code does); but each time I need to fix an issue in the login code, you (the users) are forced to download a new copy of Mojito. I think I'm going to finally move that code into the separate script library (MojitoLib)...

Update (2014-12-23):

I've posted release 1.1.5 with the Mint login fix. Thanks for your patience. The fix requires you to download a new copy of Mojito. Sorry about that ...

-b3

Mint taking a LONG time to retrieve data from financial institutions causing Mojito to time out

Hi All,

Starting a few days ago (around December 14, 2014), you may have noticed Mojito failing to sync data from Mint with this message: "Mint is taking too long to refresh your account data. Try again in a few minutes."

Here is what's happening. When you log in to your Mint account (either through their website or through Mojito), Mint goes and retrieves your latest transactions / data from your financial institutions (banks, lenders, investment companies, etc.). Mojito waits up to 60 seconds for Mint to complete this process before syncing your data (so it doesn't just fetch stale data that you probably already have). For me, Mint used to take between 30 to 50 seconds to refresh its data from financial institutions; but now it is taking almost 4 minutes. It seems that Mint's back end syncing process has become much slower for some reason. Unfortunately, there is nothing we can do to speed up Mint.

If you haven't figured it out already, the workaround is this:

In Mojito, start syncing your data. Go do something for a few minutes so Mint can finish its back end data refresh process. Then, come back to Mojito and start the sync again. The second time it should succeed.

In the meantime, I'll work on increasing the Mojito time out.

Update (2014-12-18):

I think this may have been a problem with my own accounts. I had a couple that needed "fixing" which was causing Mint to take a long time to refresh my financial data. However, let me know if you are regularly seeing the Mojito sync abort due to the 60 time out.

Mojito 1.1.4.1 is available -- Fix for bug in Reconcile Account feature

The bug mentioned in my previous blog post has now been fixed. If you are using Mojito 1.1.4, please upgrade your copy to version 1.1.4.1 now.

Do NOT use the Reconcile Account feature in version 1.1.4.

Thanks,
-b3

Heads up: Do NOT reconcile your accounts with Mojito 1.1.4 - Bug fix is coming

Hi All,

I just discovered a bug in Mojito 1.1.4 with the Reconcile Account feature. At the end of the reconcile process, Mojito adds a dummy transaction: "** Reconciled: <account name> **". This is so you can track each account statement you reconciled.

Mojito 1.1.4 has a bug that causes it to insert the dummy "Reconciled" transaction over and over again! You must close Mojito to stop it. Hopefully I am the only one who has encountered this bug. I now have a few thousand dummy transactions to delete ...

I will post a bug fix release as soon as I can.

Mojito 1.1.4 is now available

Version 1.1.4 adds a few new features. 

• There are new buttons on the About sheet so you can quickly click the operation you want to perform when you open Mojito.
• You can now make a copy of the Budget, Savings Goals, and In/Out sheets. This allows you to track your personal budget separate from your work budget, for example.
• When creating split items, you can now edit more than just the category. You can also edit the merchant and tags at the same time.

Note: These features required changes to the Mojito spreadsheet itself, not just the code behind the scenes. Because of this, there is no way to upgrade older versions of Mojoto to version 1.1.4. You must download a new copy of Mojito . Sorry for the inconvenience. If you don't care about the new features, then you can continue using version 1.1.3 without any problems.