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Clone X

Clone X - 3.2.0

Creates/restores bootable copy of your disks.

All Time: (2.1)
This Version: Not rated (0.0)
Current Version: 3.2.0
Release Date: 2008-11-20
License: Update
Downloads (this version): 1,710
Downloads (all versions): 34,070
Price: $49.00

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Product Description:

Clone X is specially designed to create a copy of your system, to duplicate it on other disks or computers, and to repair and reinstall the system in case of problems (damaged system, errors during installation, etc.)

With Mac OS X, the system is now a very complex construction. It is no longer confined within the OS 9 System folder, but is distributed all around multiple folders, most of them being inaccessible (invisible, protected or permission denied). Moreover, any copy or installation must preserve permissions and ownership of each file.

Clone your System: Clone'X provide powerfull features to analyze your System (OS X and OS 9), to execute a full copy (a clone) of your System, even if the system was installed and updated many times with the updaters provided by Apple. The clone is saved in an external drive, CD-R as well as a part of your internal disk. The clone is compressed to save disk space, and you can create as many clones as you need.

Repair your System: Starting from this clone, Clone'X will be able at any time to repair your system if damaged, or if some data was lost, or an installation has corrupted your System. You'll have your System back to its original state. Repair operation is undoable!

Recreate identical Systems on other disks: With the copy of your original System realized by Clone'X, you can install a similar system on other disks or other computers, preserving your own configuration and settings.


Upgrades from version 3.x.x are free. You can dowload a free demo version on our website.

What's new in this version:

  • [new] Add a tool to backup to Network Volumes. (Can't boot with it).
  • [new] Clone X will warn you if disks names contain invalid characters. These can prevent bootable copy to boot depending on the OS version.
  • [change] Corrected a language copy bug. Sometimes languages were copied even if you asked Clone X to do not copy them.
  • [change] Expert restore, sometimes Clone X can't be stopped bug corrected.
  • [other] Several minor updates.

Operating System Requirements:

This product is designed to run on the following operating systems:

  • Mac OS X 10.5 Intel
  • Mac OS X 10.5 PPC
  • Mac OS X 10.4 Intel
  • Mac OS X 10.4 PPC

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Clone X CommentaryHuh - Version: 3.1.0, 10/14/2008 11:07PM PST

Ban_This
This is version 3.1.0 but there in a version 3.1.1 on demonoid, that's odd.
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Clone X ReviewNeeds much more work - Version: 3.0, 5/4/2007 02:24AM PST

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Jason!
I've tried Clone X in the past, but I downloaded the version 3 trial today to see if it had improved. Much to my dismay, it has not.

The first problem I noticed is that the installer DMG contains two PDF manuals. One claims to be French and the other English. However, both files are actually French. There is no English manual in spite of one PDF saying it is in English! I might expect this from immature software, but Clone X is not at version 3!

I then launched the app (not knowing what recommendations the manual has since I cannot read French). The interface seemed self-explanatory enough, so I thought I would do a test clone from my internal 120GB hard drive to my external 120GB firewire drive. I have made this type of clone before using Apple's Disk Utility in OS X. I had hoped Clone X might be faster, as Clone X, by its very name, is supposed to excel at cloning. However, it took well over 3 hours to clone just under 100GB of data (on my 1.7GHz G4 Mac).

I suppose I can live with a 3 hour cloning time for 100GB of data, but I had hoped that Clone X would make me a perfect clone. Disk Utility does a pretty good job, but some of my applications (like little Snitch and Adobe apps) sense that the disk has been cloned and then I have to re-register again. Sadly, Clone X makes a worse clone than Apple's Disk Utility. Upon completing the clone operation, I was presented with an Errors dialog. Clone X told me there were a total of 2193 errors. It then listed the following data, which I really don't know what to make of since the following numbers total more than 2193:

On File: 1493
On Folders: 6992
Others: 7

It then told me that Clone X couldn't set permissions on some files, couldn't modify some dates, and couldn't set correct file sizes -- which it says is a "critical error."

In light of the fact there is nothing fancy about my computer setup, I am greatly disappointed by this software. I would have expected a dedicated cloning application, especially at version 3.0, to have worked better than Apple's Disk Utility. But that is not the case with Clone X. And to think, this software costs nearly US$50!

User beware.
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Clone X Troubleshooting ReportDisc Boots in French, Not English, and No Apps Launch - Version: 2.0.2, 8/27/2006 06:18PM PST

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bradhorn77
Everything seemed to be going OK, after reading the entire manual first. I added all the applications of interest and a few help documents as well.

After booting from the CD, it launched CXLauncher -in French! Hey thats great but I was expecting English, which I thought was the default. OK, so I figured out what just about everything meant in French and tried launching my applications - only to get absolutely nothing for it. The only application that actually launched was System Preferences, with no preferences to click on. OK, so maybe I needed to add all the preference panels or something to make that work. But how about DiskWarrior, Mactracker, Activity Monitor, ... you know - the point of it all?

Nothing in the documentation or on VersionTracker or the developer's web site had anything remotely relating to my experience. I'm a first time user - and a very disappointed one at that!

Is this a case of: "programmers don't know how to program (or test) anymore"?
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