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Unison

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Version:  1.8.1

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Like a fool, I keep coming back...

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Contributed by: Levon River Saturday, July 30 2005 @ 11:14 PM PDT

Product Platform: MacOSX

Used Product For: Less than a month

Recommend Product: NO

Well, the last time I reviewed this program, the developer's came and pooh-poohed everything I wrote about that was problematic--then implemented what I had written as "features.". So I came back. Now I can run it and make some sense of it--as long as I don't mind having a Mac G4 that runs only somewhat slower than an Atari or Commodore 128. Apparently Unison now is a sobriety check point, stopping every computer activity and having it attempt to walk a straight line before proceeding. Or something. I have no idea what the infernal thing is doing. I only know that while it's running, everything else is molasses, and when I quit it, everything else runs like a scalded dawg. As programmers, they make great cops.
Levon River
  
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3 comments |

Like a fool, I keep coming back... - macDigital

while i'm sorry to hear you're having problems with Unison, your review almost made me spit my coffee at the monitor! ROTFL!

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Wednesday, August 17 2005 @ 05:49 AM PDT


walk a straight line - sjk

Yeah, the sobriety check point analogy is really funny.

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Wednesday, August 17 2005 @ 07:47 AM PDT


Like a fool, I keep coming back... - Squished Squirrel

I would agree with you about occasional problems with Unison sucking the life out of your machine with 1.6.1, but I haven't seen the problem once with 1.6.2.

If you downloaded a large number of files with 1.6.1, and then scrolled the download window, you stood a good chance of bringing Unison, and the whole machine to a crawl. And if you didn't patiently try and quit Unison, and just force quit it, it would leave the computer in the same pokey state.

But, as I said, I haven't seen that in 1.6.2

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Thursday, August 18 2005 @ 04:08 PM PDT