I normally run FME Desktop at the office, where I'm storing named connections and associated files on an office network share, in order to facilitate sharing these between the development and production desktop licenses.
These files are backed up to my local drive every day.
Now, when I'm trying to run FME offline, without access to the office network, FME refuses to access the named connection, and even bars me from reading from a local SQL database although all connection data is entered manually.
This also happens after I change the references in under options to point to the local backup copies of the files in question.
WTF?
Why is FME refusing to work normally in this manner ?
Version 2022.2.2