On Sat, Jan 16, 2016 at 10:11 am, Walt Smith wrote: Are Karen's tools being updated since her death? If so, I haven't heard of it and I'd suspect that PC technology has passed her utilities by over the nearly five years since her untimely passing. The fact that they're accessible isn't, in itself, a recommendation for their continued use.
Walt, Like you, I cannot find any versions of this software that were updated even close to 2011 (the last replicator version I can find is from 2009). I decided to try downloading and installing the version with the previously posted link. When you go to run that program the first time it tries to install something called Microsoft Office Single something or other with 2010 included as part of that name. One would definitely want to proceed with extreme caution if you have a later version of office installed on your machine. I stopped it at this point because I have a full installation of Office 2010 on my computer and did not want to have anything related to that installation potentially tweaked. The main menu did finally pop up, and that software is not what I'd call a full backup in any real sense. It definitely allows you to do what its name implies, replicate specific files and folders from your machine to a backup drive, but in general I don't want someone to have to pick and choose what they want to backup. Any individual, particularly if they are not a really sophisticated user, is likely to possibly omit something that they really do want to have backed up. Under Windows 10 I really like their File History feature that's built in as a good user data backup tool that requires virtually no thinking about what you want to back up unless you really are a sophisticated user who has intentionally located data on another logical drive that's on a partition of your hard drive or a completely separate physical drive that would not be backed up automatically. If that's the case, you're definitely going to know you've done that and add locations to what File History backs up. If you're the average user, though, whose entire collection of data files start at the User Libraries level [My Documents, My Pictures, My Music, My Videos - remove the "My " if you have Windows after Windows 7] File History will get everything without any tweaks needed to settings. You still need to take an occasional system image backup as well, but that's a separate issue from user data backup. Brian
