DANCO  I deleted my old iPod, which I have sold. I connected my new iPod, but nothing happened, not even a prompt. It's a third generation iPod Touch, running the latest OS. Is there are a reason it won't show up, is there just a glitch, or am I doing something wrong? Maybe I needed to restart my computer.  
(Version 1.0.1)

DANCO  So if one wanted to stop using it, it's just a matter of deleting the application? It doesn't install any kexts or the like that have to be deleted.

I'm asking because I have the Paragon NTFS. This is currently not Snow Leopard compatible, though there are compatible betas.

So I might want to use this and then switch to Paragon. Or maybe this will turn out better than Paragon.  
(Version 0.3)

DANCO  It's not that the basic PTHPasteboard does not work on Snow Leopard - it seems to work fine for me so far. But it is unsupported, which means that any issues that might occur will not be resolved. Still, it would be useful to know if there are issues, one person has pointed out that it won't work if the machine runs a 64-bit kernel, but most of us will be running a 32-bit kernel and 64-bit programs.

The Pro version is too expensive if all one needs is a basic clipboard manager.  
(Version 4.5.0)

DANCO  As I noted earlier, the only functionality lost in the free demo version is the ability to copy and delete items. And deletion can be *very* slow in the full version, I guess partly because (unlike Time Machine) you can decide which versions to delete.

If you use Time Machine, do yourself a favour and download the free version.  
(Version 1.4.2)

DANCO  Lockheed, you keep suggesting pmset. But does that let you keep one drive awake while letting others sleep?

That's what some of us need to do. I have one drive (Seagate FreeAgent) that, as far as I have been able to check, just does not wake up properly once it has gone to sleep. So a way of keeping just that one drive awake is useful, and I don't see that can be done with pmset.

The real question is the argument between the developer of this program and the developer of Keep Drive Spinning. I haven't evaluated the programs yet, but it looks as though the objections raised to Keep Drive Spinning were all answered in version 1.1.  
(Version 3.3)

DANCO  So what is the situation for those of us who have the Utility package (particularly from the recent MacHeist).Will we need to pay for the upgrade?  
(Version 1.1.6)

DANCO  In response to Miles.

As I said, some of the options are *user* preferences, and should be changeable by individual users without admin coming into it.

I agree that other options require admin privileges, but this does not necessarily require a user is logged in as admin, simply that an admin username and password is required. But there should be no way a non-admin user even knows the admin password unless, as in my case, only one person is using the machine and that person prefers to run routinely as a non-admin user.

When you say "I do not encourage non admin users to alter system files on my mac" my response is that it isn't a matter of encouraging or not, it should simply not be possible except in my situation, provided an admin name and password is asked for when needed.  
(Version 1.2)

DANCO  Needs to be run as an administrator. It does not even allow you to enter an administrator name and password. At least some of the features (tweaking preferences) would be useful on a user-by-user basis  
(Version 1.2)

DANCO  By the way, where did you get the message that you have to be logged in as administrator? I don't get it when I run the program.

In fact, that was one of my complaints, that one is not currently told this. It runs in a non-admin account, but falsely claims (because it can't access the system log) that no backups have been made. As I said in my earlier post, Rich is working on this issue.  
(Version 1.1)

DANCO  Back-in-Time provides an excellent way of viewing Time Machine backups. You can't do much manipulation of files without paying, but the demo is free and lets you view changes through time. I think this may be what the poster needs.  
(Version 1.1)

DANCO  The app reads the system log, and that *requires* admin privileges. There's no way round that.

You can use Pseudo to run it with admin privileges without actually logging in to an admin account.

I know that Rich is working on a way for the program itself to ask for an admin name and password. But if you're paranoid (perhaps with good reason) that's actually worse than being told you need to log in as an administrator.  
(Version 1.1)

DANCO  Sooner or later Rosetta will cease to work. We need an Intel or Universal program that works like Pseudo.  
(Version 1.2.3)

DANCO  Having downloaded the trial, I find that the developers have been generous. You can't restore files from the trial version, but that's the only limitation. One can really easily find items that have been deleted, see what versions of a file one has, etc. Time Machine itself has to be used to remove unwanted items, though.

Given the functionality of the free version, I highly recommend this.  
(Version 1.3.1)

DANCO  The backup drive can get quite full, and there are items I want to delete (things I don't want to keep or have moved from one place to another so that I don't need them in their original location). Apparently this program will let one see what items on the backup have been deleted from the main drive. I reckon this would be very useful. Price is steep, though.  
(Version 1.3.1)