Unreliable & Risky - skipowder1

I feel very much the same. I have also used retrospect for many many years as a Mac User. I have subsequently been informed that Dantz no longer supports retrospect backup for single users and will no longer do so. This was not an officially announced policy change but rather something I found out, only after calling up for assistance. They have sold it to Western Digital who make Back up drives and incorporate it into there one push button automatic backup. I am extremely dissappointed that such business practises still exist and that there is no recourse as a customer for some remuneration. But they are not alone.. Symantic's Norton Utilities is also guilty of this unannounced Shutdown to Mac Users. After 15+ years, Symantic suddenly stopped its support and any further upgrades for Norton Utilities for single Mac Users... They did this immediately and without any advanced warning.. with no regard for thousands of loyal mac users. At least some advance notice would have helped , at least one could have made the choice to maintain his/her old OS 10 to maintain diagnostic capablities. But since there was no advance warning and one upgraded to panther or tiger.. You simply found out upon running the normal diagnostic, that you could not. Unfortunately, as far as I am concerned , there is no other commisurate diagnostic available on the market that is anywhere near as user freindly and thorough as Symantic... If I am wrong about that fact someone please advise me..

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Saturday, August 06 2005 @ 10:47 AM PDT

Unreliable & Risky - poolmouse

the fact that dantz is spiraling downward has no bearing on symantec's totall collapse as of osx. symantec was only have bad back in os9 days. anyone who trusts symantec after what they did to osx users does not deserve a computer.

norton utilities was never more than an over-hyped over-marketed and over-rated piece of c**p. it has no place in any sysadmin's toolbox.

don

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Saturday, August 06 2005 @ 02:18 PM PDT