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 Software : Retrospect Express 5.0 |
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Binding: CD-ROM
Brand: EMC Insignia
EAN: 0093156004787
Format: CD-ROM
Label: Dantz Development Corporation
Manufacturer: Dantz Development Corporation
Model: MU30050
Publisher: Dantz Development Corporation
Sales Rank: 13978
Studio: Dantz Development Corporation
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating: - Might as well be written in Greek
I agree with the reviewer from Charlottesville that "the prompts and messages seem to be written by someone for whom english is a very second or third language", and the PDF file documentation is no better. I find it extremely irritating that simple step by step flow charts for executing the various back-up features are not used. Come on Retrospect,how about some straitforward explantions on using this program. And please, take some lessons from the people who wrote the documentation for the Tech ... Read More
Rating:  - Failed when I need it most
I've been using RE 5.0 for about 18 months. It isn't intuitive, and every time I made a backup I had to re-learn the non-standard interface, but I was able to make backups.
My hard drive volumes were trashed beyond repair while installing another product, so I inserted the RE CD to restore my disk. Unfortunately, everytime the boot-up gets about 90% done, I get a System error message and the whole thing locks up.
Now I have a crashed computer, a complete backup of my files on ... Read More
Rating: - Frustrating
I bought this a year ago to back up my home Mac. Here's my primary complaints :
1. It's "compression" often makes files larger than the original, especially with compressed file formats (mp3s, jpegs, etc). You can turn off compression for a whole backup set, but not for individual directories.
2. It is not easy to use to back up portions of your system. I have 180 GB of hard drive space, but much of that is scratch space for digital work that I don't want backed up (iMovie directories ... Read More
Rating: - Too bad it is the only game in town
I have about 15 years experience programming for the PC and the Mac. I bought this product basically because there did not seem to be much else on the market. I would describe it as odd, and somewhat useless.
I tried to back up 10 gb of data from my Powerbook hard drive to a firewire external disk. After some odd displays of counting over 100,000 files on my hard drive (there are actually less than 8,000) it announced that it could not deal with over 2 gb of data. That might have been ok in 1993, ... Read More
Rating: - I hate it!
I'm an experience Macintosh user, and have used an earlier full version of Retrospect at work to back up 40 Macs on our network. I bought Retrospect Express 5.0 to back up my iMac at home. First there were problems installing this software, then it fought me every step of the way with its inscrutible instructions, long wait times, and failures. I give up. Don't buy this junk. I just wasted $...!
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