Bill Jones
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Carbon Copy Cloner
niblettes reviewed on 06 Oct 2011
Why is CCC not a good backup solution? Because once you select what you want backed up and save it as a schedule task there is absolutely no way to either see or edit what you have chosen to back up. My folder structure evolves over time, and what I need to backup does too.
So, if you've created a new folder outside of the folders you originally selected for backup and you want it included in the backup you have to delete your saved backups and create new ones from scratch -- hopefully you remember all the folders and files you originally selected so you can select them again.
In other words CCC provides only half the necessary basic CRUD (create, read, update and delete) functionality, which means its only half a backup application.
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ForkLift
niblettes reviewed on 19 Jul 2011
First moving files by drag and drop is wonky. For example with FL open and my documents folder selected, I can drag and drop a file from my desktop to "documents" but not to any of its sub-folders that are displayed. To drag-and-drop to a sub-folder I have to first select that subfolder and then drag and and drop to it.
The second problem occurs when I swap the view:
1. The left panel selects "Macintosh HD". So If I was looking at my "Documents" folder and that was selected, swapping the view selects "Macintosh HD"
2. The first item in that folder gets auto-selected -- even if I had nothing selected before swapping the view. So for example in my "Documents" folder the "Blogs" folder is the first item when the items are sorted alphabetically.
Then when I swap back Forklift then takes me into the "Blogs" folder, rather than the "Documents" folder I was actually looking at. Forklift will then continue to drill down as I repeat the sequence of swapping view, then swapping back.
The third problem is days after I've report these problems I've heard nothing back from the developers.
So ForkLift can't manage to support proper file navigation, file moving, or timely customer support. I might expect this from a product I'm beta testing, but not a version 2.0 product I paid for.
My recommendation: Do not buy ForkLift.