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Toast Titanium

Mikokim reviewed on 22 Mar 2012

Never had a problem with Toast until now: After upgrading to Toast 11.0.5 (through in-app update) Toast keeps crashing on me -- more specifically, I don't get beyond the first Toast Setup assistant window -- the program freezes and then crashes; in short I can't launch the program anymore. Tried erasing preferences and repairing permissions -- didn't help. I'm on Lion 10.7.3. My rating reflects the latest update: 11.0.5.

[Version 11.0.5]

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Mikokim replied on 25 Mar 2012

QUick update: I uninstalled Toast 11.0.5 completely and went back to Toast 11.0.4 install -- same problem now; Toast crashes at the first window (Set-up assistant). I've been in touch with Roxio support -- they've tried to help, but so far the problem has not been identified (they thought there might be a conflict with Perian and XVID codecs, but I removed them as well, and still no success (on Lion 10.7.3). Anyone know of a good alternative to Toast. I need to burn data discs and DVDs. TIA.

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Mikokim replied on 30 Mar 2012

@Fontaz77: at least you do get it to work. I'm still out of luck. I do give Roxio support some credit for responding to each note I send them; however, I question their true commitment, plus I have no confidence they looked in detail at the crash reports I sent them. Their latest solution is: to disable all my login items (they point me to an archived, no longer maintained Apple support page from OSX 10.1, although I told them I'm on Lion); then I'm supposed to archive all my "old files" (whatever that means, no real specifics given), and to backup and remove my previous Systems folder (huh?), and delete my old iTunes Library files. Mind you, this recommendation comes AFTER I told them that I already did a clean install of Lion and all my apps and still run into this problem. Clearly some app/process on my system interferes with Toast (the crash reports details bad access errors), but at this point, I give up. Roxio is not really helpful, I regret having shelled out the money for their suite. In the interim I'm using LiquidCD, which, although old, does the job for now with regard to burning data CDs and Video_TS folders. I'm sure Toast runs fine on some other system, but in my case (and obviously Fontaz's) things went array with the upgrade to 11.0.5 -- at least I got a year's worth out of it. But it's time to move on...

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Mikokim replied on 03 Apr 2012

@Fontaz77 - I did create a new user; installed Toast 11.0.4 (didn't want to touch the latest update anymore), and it opened and ran just fine. Copied the user preferences over to my regular account. But that same install of Toast won't launch, more specifically, freezes on launch and then crashes. Clearly, something conflicts with Toast. The real puzzler here: I have the same apps installed as before -- and at the time, Toast 11.0.4 ran just fine. The problems only started after upgrading to 11.0.5. But since I uninstalled 11.0.5 completely, and reinstalled Toast 11.0.4 (downloaded from a link provided by Roxio support) under a new user account, I'm puzzled. As I said: ALL my other apps run just fine, whatever conflicts with Toast -- Roxio hasn't been helpful in trying to identify that conflict (I doubt they looked at the crash report). At this point, LiquidCD works just fine; for conversions I use Handbrake -- so I don't need Toast anymore.

Decloner

Mikokim reviewed on 07 Jan 2012

Several people reported a display problem with this app since August 5, 2011. To this day (1/6/12), no response from the developer. Is this app still under development - will there be a fix?

[Version 1.4]

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Mikokim replied on 07 Jan 2012

Sorry, forgot to add a link to the developer's site:
http://forum.pixelespressoapps.com/discussion/9/decloner-14-mac-version-display-problem/#Item_0

iBank

Mikokim reviewed on 01 May 2011

Still on the fence with this one. Like many others, I'm still using Quicken 2007. With Lion around the corner, and Rosetta support dropping, I have to find an alternative. Overall, this is not a bad program. It does many things I need. Top peeves that would make me bump up my star count if addressed:
- Ability to move transactions from one account to another (people make mistakes; currently, when you accidentally enter a transaction in Account A, even though you meant to add it to Account B, there is no way other than to delete it from Account A and then re-enter it in Account B [unless I'm missing something]).
- Calendar support when entering transactions: add a pop-up calendar to the date column, so it's easy to adjust dates rather than having to enter an entire string manually.
- Reconciliation: I echo the sentiment of some other reviewers: it would be nice to move it closer to the way Quicken 2007 is doing it. I find the current way iBank does it not totally off-putting, but it most definitely would benefit from improvements.

Adding the above would make me definitely bump up stars and lean toward iBank. Extra bonus: Home and Small business reporting support a la Quicken 2007 - with better presets.

As an aside: Experienced corruption of one account when system accidentally crashed while I was entering a transaction into that account. Had to reimport QIF to set up account again and continue testing. Giving the developers the benefit of a doubt here, as the crash was not caused by iBank, but it nonetheless it affected the DB -- some auto-failsafe would be nice here.

[Version 4.2.1]

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Mikokim replied on 03 May 2011

@Donperreault: Thanks for the tip re the pop-up calendar. As I hint at in my review: I'm still evaluating and playing around with a trial. Admittedly to some my above points may be minor, but I found myself stuck with those three things as I started playing around. Let's hope the developers listen.

VueScan

Mikokim reviewed on 20 Apr 2011

VueScan simply works. And if it doesn't, drop Ed a note and he will fix it. Twice in the past I had to contact Ed because of a problem, and he was always quick to repsond (typically within 24 hours!). Those who complain about too many updates within too short a period of time should keep two things in mind: 1) If there is an update, then Ed responded to users having reported a problem with the software. 2) If the version you have installed still works for you: no need to update. I bought a pro license to VueScan (which gives me unlimited updates and upgrades) many years ago, and I'm still using it. Thanks Ed for a great product and for your tireless efforts to satisfy your customers.

[Version 9.0.34]

Apple Mac OS X

mikokim commented on 12 Feb 2008

Major problems after updating my Duo-core G5 and my 17 MacBook Pro -- both systems much, much slower than before. Sharing via Airport painfully slow. Restarted several times. Wish I could roll back to previous version. This is the first time since 2000 that I'm having problems with an update.

[Version 10.5.2]

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