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...and quick to rectify the situation and send out the 'lost' keys for those of us hit by the purchasing bug.
...and quick to rectify the situation and send out the 'lost' keys for those of us hit by the purchasing bug.
Well, I made a backup with V8 before upgrading to 21H1 on main laptop (nightmare). Somehow onedrive glitched and so I reinstalled it but it decided to change my system folders e.g. documents, downloads etc to onedrive instead of local. Tried to change them back to local drive but it complained about document folder not being empty even though it was (i checked for hidden files and hidden system files).
So in end, I gave up and decided to restore using V8 never having tested it.
It worked first time!
I also tested usb drive backup - worked first time.
Now I have copied all usb drive data, I am going to try a full restore to usb drive.
I used to use win32diskimager to backup usb flash drives but it was slow and inflexible.
Such a joy to user Reflect now!
Also changes to interface are minimal - slightly disappointed that they did not make the screens a bit more friendly for beginners (not issue for me but for noobs, it is a little daunting - they should have an express mode which only gives basics for beginners).
Hi there
Any idea if there will be a Free version of V8 -- all I really do is just image my windows OS - I don't need incremental / differential backups for data or even the OS as I run all my data backups via rsync / grsync (GUI version of rync) on a NAS and then from NAS-> external device. Imaging a windows OS if you only have the OS plus installed apps such as office on the OS takes at the most 15 mins so I've no need for all the extra added features such as viboot, guardian etc etc -- which will be of value to loads of others.
Macrium seems a good company and its software always seems to work - so I hope that either V7 will continue to work for basic OS backups - or there will be a free V8 version. I'm OK with CLI stuff so the quality / lack of quality of the GUI that people have previously complained about doesn't really bother me one bit.
Cheers
jimbo
Last edited by Steve C; 22 May 2021 at 09:36.