Storing food

[LoneMarauder]

Has anyone else noticed that in the beta, dupes refuse to deliver food to ration boxes or refrigerators?  Or is it some weird priority thing I've got going on?

I have meal lice rotting in the farm, and no one will take it to the (powered) refrigerator 5 tiles away.  I've noticed the same behavior with the new piles of lumber.

[Von Kartoffen]

This is not my case, but maybe you should check :

1) The priority of your fridge.

2) The priority of the "Store" errants for each duplicant in the priority tab.

3) The navigation of your duplicants (maybe that food or fridge are unreachable for them).

4) The priorities of everything else (maybe all is on 9).

5) The priority of the sweep errand when you order to sweep the food.

6) The list of what your fridge can accept (cooking ingredients and edible).

[Promethien]

Have you done big changes to your errand priorities? Food storage falls under Supplying. Its actually pretty high in the default priorities but if you down arrowed it for all your dupes they will do literally everything else first. 

If its not the result of you tweaking priorities then try a save and load. Sometimes the chore queue gets hiccups.

[bobucles]

Food farms are a great place to set up your first autosweepers. Dupes spend a lot of time on carrying small items, and farms have a steady supply of small items to pick up.

[LoneMarauder]

Yeah that was it, for some reason all my storage bins were set to priority 7 (must've been that way when I built them).  I changed them back and the dupes store food like they should now.