Hi Carsten, I'm sure this bug is going to be a pain to track down... :( I'm using multiple org files and I'm clocking time and jumping between the files for hours. Then for no reason I can determine the colour display of tasks breaks. When it's broken I get black tasks alternating instead of all blue. I created a test.org file which shows this problem and it looks like the following image - task '* two' is black and not blue.