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Why didn't you just re-import all files in iTunes? |
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Works well, but why everything in zipformat? If it had the choice of zipping/not zipping/.dmg format I would certainly use this program. But it doesn't. Shame, it looks good. |
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There is no way to drag the server to the thrash. You can only drag the application to the thrash. When you do that, the server keeps running. It's a process called mcucle. You can empty the thrash, it won't run ofcourse, but the server is still registered to keep starting up. OSX will keep trying to do that. If you make a launchd item to keep things running, there must be a way to deactivate this launchagent/demon. There isn't, so like I said, rubbish. AVoid at all costs. |
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Where's the deinstaller. It freekin installes a server on my machine and there is no way to turn it off! Avoid this rubbish! |
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If the Swiss call Switzerland 'Europe', that says a lot about the swiss... |
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If this works, and I guess it does, than it saves you exactly one mouseclick. Hourah! |
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On top of all this, the promised European scenery now has to be payed for. Goodbye xplane! |
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Guess it's nice, but for Macs, there is only a sourcecode download. Binary is only for windows. |
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This is a rather impressive utility. It looks small, it is small, but it does a lot, and it does it very well. What really impressed me is how simple everthing is presented. It actually has the same functionality as Intego's backup, but is cheaper, and much easier to understand. I also like the backups it makes: no proprietary formats, just copies or universaly accessible compression. To have sets is also an obvious, but often overlooked feature. I have just a few things on my wishlist: 1. This one would make life easier: To be able to choose folders from other users to backup, requiring an administrator password ofcourse. If I choose another users' folder now, I get an error message. 2. This is a minor one: The compression formet is .gz, which is nothing bad, but I prefer .dmg's, because they can be read without unpacking them. They can also be encrypted, which may be a nice extra feature :) 3. This is a difficult one, but if implemented is great: Incremental backups with hardlinks to yesterday's backup. To explain what this is would require a long story, so I just give you this address. For unix geeks only!: http://www.mikerubel.org/computers/rsync_snapshots/#Incremental The effect is that you have a full backup everyday, but it only requires the diskspace of an incremental backup. Most of the functionality needed is already present in this app, because you need a rotating system and rsync, that's all. I implemented this in my own backupscripts at home, and if the developer can implement this in his great little interface, I would donate and kneel in front of him. |
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nice little program, but it doesn't give me ip addresses, but MAC addresses. |
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Now you're just being witty on me. |
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Exactly, I can say what I want. So what is your problem? |
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Yeah sure, if people give it a positive review, that settles it and I can't give a review anymore. If a thousand people say something stupid, it's still stupid. |
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Is this formerly known as Tamtam ?:) |
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So if you get positive response on your gui, that makes it good and I should shut up? And if you want to be treated fair, could you point out which of my arguments are false? If you like fair so much, how come you presume I haven't tried it? I can't try it anymore though, my 16 times are up. You seem to be awfully sensitive to negative critics, so why do you post your program on this site? |
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Syncup makes the false presumption that a backup set is connected to a destination. This means that you cannot change the destination of a backup set. Other things that are missing is making a backup of other users' files, choosing single files to backup instead of directories and backing up files that you cannot get at with Finder. It also means the writer has no experience with backups. The fancy features are nice, but if you haven't got the basics right, that means the program is of very limited use. To me, it's useless. And man, work on your interface, this is ungainly to say the least! |
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I do not find this a very good backup tool: 1: The way sets work is very impractical: A set can only hold one directory. Which means that you have to have several sets, for Docs, Pics, Library items, etc. Then, if you want to backup, you need to select the option "backup all sets", but that's not what I want, I only want to backup some particular directories. This is highly inflexible. 2: There is no option to include the full path in the backupdirectory. This is very inconvenient, because all users have "Documents" to backup, and now you have to create separate directories for all users to make backups for them. 3: Also, I cannot make the destination readonly to protect it from other users, because then SK fails. 4: The screen is very small, and long file names don't fit, but you cannot enlarge the screen. This is a beginners interface fault that only Philips Consumer Electronics makes usually, and they are very stupid indeed. |
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Whether I pay for it has nothing got to do with it. It simply doesn't work, so it doesn't work,period. I tried it. Anybody can make something that doesn't work. For free too. That doesn't make it good software. Good software is software that works, and if it's free, that's a very nice bonus. If I, like you suggest, adjust my expectations to the price, all free software is great. But it isn't. Secondly, yes, all webservers have vulnerabilities, that's exactly my point. This will have them too, and more so. Didn't know about 8080, guess you're right. Finally: Nice app, doesn't work, great price. (1/19/2006, Version: 1.4) |
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Bad idea: 1: It doesn't work. I can browse the albums, but when I click on a photo, I get an error. Developers should test more, especially on the basic functionalities of their products. 2: You're opening up a webserver with all possible vulnerabilities of any webserver, but without the big teams of developers to repair them. Who can tell this is a safe server? 3: You're using port 8080, which is a reserved port for other services. You should use an unreserved port. |
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Quite good, but need the following extra features to replace my own backup scripts: 1: No zipping, just copying files. I make DMGs of them every week anyway, and besides: if this one single zip file failes, you've got nothing. 2: Differential/incremental backups: With a total backup of 700MB it's not really pleasant to copy all that every time. 3: Admin/sudo mode: I need to backup other users files too, because I know they won't. For the rest it works quite well. |
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