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Aug 19 2009

WHOSYOURTATOR  Nice app but too expensive when there are free options like SmartSVN. I'd pay $25 to $30 for it. I'm hoping to see it in a Mac Update Promo soon.  
(Version 1.0.4)

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Drive Genius
Mar 15 2009
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WHOSYOURTATOR  Defrag feature should be renamed the destruct feature. Drive Genious 2.1 completely hoses my disk on my Mac Pro. The first time I tried it the disk wasn't even bootable. I had to restore from Time Machine.

Later on, I tried the degraf again. I created a disk image of my drive first, this is a must. The second time I booted to OS X install disk and ran a permission repair and a verify to ensure there were no errors on the disk. I ensured the volume would still boot, then rebooted into Drive Genius. I ran verify and no errors reported. I then ran defrag. Defrag completed and the computer rebooted. Files in OS X where hosed. Some I could not delete. I could not save files. I rebooted and my Mac Pro would just shut down during boot. Blah!

This time I restored from a disk image and was back up. Don't waste your time with Drive Genius.  
(Version 2.1.0)

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Drive Genius
Mar 16 2009

PROSOFT SUPPORT  Hey there,

David from Prosoft here.

We are sincerely sorry to hear about the issues you have experienced with Drive Genius 2. We really do care about our customers and are always frustrated when we hear of issues like this- Although Drive Genius is an award-winning utility, it is important to note that all drive utilities can expose problems that you might not have known about before. A drive may have "been fine before", but in reality there may have been unknown issues. With that said, we commonly advise the following steps in using Drive Genius 2 to help you provide maintenance on your computer:

1) Duplicate your hard drive-- This is the most important step users need to take before doing maintenance on their hard drive)

2) Repair Errors on your Hard drive

3) Defrag your hard drive.

Given your situation, please contact our Support department. We do want to get information about your system so that we can look into this issue. This is very uncommon with the use of Drive Genius, which is an award winning application used every day around the world by end users, IT professionals and the Apple Genius Bar includes Drive Genius as part of their ProCare plan, so we would like to get some more information about your system.

You can contact our support by email to support@prosoftengineering.com or give us a call at 925-426-6306.

David

Prosoft Engineering  
(Version 2.1.0)

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ChronoSync
Jan 19 2009
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WHOSYOURTATOR  I give Chronosync 4.x four stars up from three in my last 3.3.x review. The agent is a nice addition since it can keep FULL permissions in sync. I'll definitely be purchasing the new Chronosync Agent once my trial expires. The stability and UI performance are much improved of the main Chronosync app.

I've tried running my user home folder from external drives using esata and its just not sufficient for me. Chronosync fills the gap and allows me to avoid having to carry around an external drive to share between my laptop and mac pro. I just use a home-to-home sync before switching machines using chronosync and I have ALL my files with my laptop I am on the road and have no internet access. This is something that MobileMe's back to my mac service cannot do since it requires an internet connection.

A couple of suggestions would be to include some type of listener in both Chronosync and Chronosync agent that actively monitors file changes on each machine. This would reduce scan time and make this app perfect.

Finally, as always, support is excellent in answering questions. If you can't find what you are looking for in the application, just contact support and they are always prompt to reply.  
(Version 4.0)

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ChronoSync
Jan 1 2009
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WHOSYOURTATOR  Chronosync 3.x works as expected, the customer support is very responsive, but I am bumping this down to a 3 because its maker is actively advertising that Chronosync 4 was going to be released in December 2008 and its now January 2009.

Please be transparent with your customers and let them know why the release is delayed and when the new version is expected since you are marketing the "free upgrade".  
(Version 3.3.6)

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ChronoSync
Jan 5 2009

ODYSSEUS  The developer is only a month late and you're upset about that?  
(Version 4.0)

praisebury
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ChronoSync
Jan 5 2009

PENGUIRL  It's only five days late but WHOSYOURTATOR posted his/her comment on New Year's day when it was one day late. That just seems silly to me, five days is pretty good for a small software developer.  
(Version 4.0)

praisebury
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