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Customer Reviews of Retrospect 6.0 Desktop Mac

Unpleasant to use
Nobody would give the authors of this software an ease-of-use award. From the outset it behaves as if it were written to please IT specialists and others whose careers depend on things being complicated and incomprehensible to mortals. Even when Retrospect is being directed to do something simple, it is not simple to do because it speaks some alien jargon. It could really serve as a model for bad interface design. <
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>It isn't much discussed, but the Mac is really lacking quality tools for backup, file synchronization, and similar critical tasks.

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Best there is!
Why the low ratings? I have used this for back-ups for years and it's just flat out the best there is for back-up. Do these "other users" really back-up? It's really simple and does it all.

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It's not easy to use.
Like other reviewers, I used to swear by Dantz backup software. I used its DiskFit for years. When I upgraded to OS X, I got Dantz's Retrospect and have had a fair number of problems. <
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>1. Dantz gives you one free tech call in the first 30 days and then charges like $70 if you have a problem after that. I think they should give you one free tech call ANYTIME. Most users won't have a problem in the first 30 days -- and when you have a problem after your first hard-drive disaster, getting hit for $70 just adds insult to injury. <
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>2. In order to use an external hard-drive as a backup location, you've got to select this option inside a couple of screens in preferences. This should be the default, especially since this is the favored way of backing up an entire internal hard drive. And even if you've selected it in preferences, if you crash and have to restore from the original CD, you've got to remember this minor selection or your restore won't work, causing much panic as I found out. <
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>3. The program has behaved differently with different backups, causing confusion. For months it performed the backup simply to my external hard drive, then one day it required that my external hard drive be erased to do the backup. <
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>4. When I did experience a problem that required a restore, the program crashed AFTER erasing my hard drive but BEFORE restoring anything. This was distressful. <
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>5. I've had to use the manual many times in my backups because the program simply isn't intuitive. <
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>I give it two stars because I was actually able to restore my data and the thing grudgingly does its job. But, man, I wish it worked more simply for the average user who doesn't give a darn about scripting and network backups.