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Hang during Smart Update
Hi,
I hadn't backed up my MacBook in a few months, so I decided I was overdue for a Smart Update. I've tried a number of times over the past several nights, but Smart Update continues to hang after evaluating about 25 GB. The first night I let it run for about 45 minutes, but it showed no progress after the first 15 minutes or so. Since then I've been stopping the update after about five minutes of no progress. If it matters, I'm backing up to a Western Digital external drive that's connected via USB. I've used Disk Utility's "repair disk" function on the external drive, but it never turns up any problems with the disk. FYI, I'm running OS 10.5.8 and I just updated to the latest version of SuperDuper tonight. I was hopeful the update would solve the problem, but it didn't. Prior to this problem, I had never had any problem with SuperDuper. Finally, I tried to submit feedback via the SuperDuper application itself, but for some reason my message didn't go through. If you need to contact me via e-mail or if you need me to attach the SuperDuper log, please let me know. Thanks in advance. |
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Yes, please send me some email to support and we'll try to figure out what's going on.
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--Dave Nanian |
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I just wanted to follow up and say that Dave responded to my email query almost immediately and the problem turned out to be no problem. What I thought was "hanging" turned out to be just the result of SuperDuper's copying a very large file that took a long time to copy.
Thanks for a great product and outstanding support, Dave. |
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why not post solutions in forum
I've been having a similar problem (a couple problems, actually) and have been searching the forums for possible solutions. I've come across a number of posts where Shirt Pocket support responds by saying "send me an email and we'll try to help."
I appreciate that they are so willing to be helpful, but why not use the forum to conduct the dialog so that a knowledgebase is created to help others having similar issues? |
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Because the solutions involved are nearly always specific to a user. I ask people to post the results to the thread if they'd like, but having them post system logs and the like to a public forum is unnecessary and a bit silly.
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The big problem is that the FAQ won't help users who need to be stepped through diagnosis. After all, there's a pretty extensive Troubleshooting section of the User's Guide, and it does help with virtually all cases...
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Super Duper! Support is Super
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also. -Larco |
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I agree with Larco. SD is a great program with excellent support.
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