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I may take a look at that free one. Acronis is kinda intrusive and has too much crap going on in the background when you're not using it.
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John Simmons / outlaw programmer wrote: I may take a look at that free one. Acronis is kinda intrusive and has too much crap going on in the background when you're not using it.
Definitely a great product and one Griff has been spruking for years.
Michael Martin
Australia
"I controlled my laughter and simple said "No,I am very busy,so I can't write any code for you". The moment they heard this all the smiling face turned into a sad looking face and one of them farted. So I had to leave the place as soon as possible."
- Mr.Prakash One Fine Saturday. 24/04/2004
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John Simmons / outlaw programmer wrote: Acronis is kinda intrusive and has too much crap going on in the background when you're not using it.
Do they still do that? When will these companies learn...
Before I started using VMs (and thus just backing up entire VHD files), I used a pirated version of Acronis for years to back up my OS drive. Felt bad about it, as it was a great product, and I felt they deserved the support, so I ended up purchasing it. Much to my chagrin, the latest version installed a lot of crap, integrated into Explorer, that you couldn't get rid of. I ended up uninstalling it and sticking to my older copy.
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I have used both, and actually continue to do so during my 1 year of evaluation.
I agree that Acronis has a LOT of extra baggage. I have a NAS device with 2 network ports, and I am trying to setup one connection to be secure, and to connect/disconnect only when the backups are running... Acronis is not making this easy. Windows is making it worse.
I also ran into a hiccup recently when Acronis Active Protection (Something I did not realize I was running blocked some code and screwed me up).
This may be the last year I run Acronis...
(I have a new 2TB SSD to install in my C: slot, so I am going to use AOMEI this time).
Thanks OG
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Using any suggestions or advice, from the Lounge, in the real world, is a very dangerous endeavor. You are very lucky that you did not start the apocalypse.
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Hi, I used Acronis True Image and encountered a very strange and debilitating problem on my 32 GB super dev PC...Memory use would steadily creep upwards until it hit 100% a few minutes after boot. Then it would sit there for about 20-30 minutes then steadily creep downward. So after every boot it was 30 minutes before I could use the PC. Also, it would do this intermittently during the day. Tried all sorts of things - RAM, new SSD, etc. Lots of ideas on the web but nothing worked until I started one by one uninstalling apps before doing a complete reformat and reload. And it was simply - Uninstall Acronis! The problem went away! And so did my use of Acronics. I use Macrium now and am happy with it and happier with it than when using Acronis. After spending months with this problem and was ready to dump and replace the motherboard...I dumped and will never use Acronis. Months of productivity negatively impacted.
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I'll kick it off with this:
Von Richthoven: I must now tell you of the full horror of what awaits you.
Edmund: Ah, you see, Balders. Dress it up in any amount of pompous verbal diarrhoea, and the message is`Squareheads down for the big Boche gang-bang'.
Von Richthoven: As an officer and a gentleman, you will be looking forward to a quick and noble death.
Edmund: Well, obviously.
Von Richthoven: But, instead, an even worse fate awaits you. Tomorrow, you will be taken back to Germany...
Edmund: Here it comes!
Von Richthoven: ...to a convent school, outside Heidelberg, where you will spend the rest of the war teaching the young girls home economics. For you, as a man of honour, the HUMILIATION will be UNBEARABLE
Or if you prefer: Youtube[^]
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant Anonymous
- The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine Winston Churchill, 1944
- Never argue with a fool. Onlookers may not be able to tell the difference. Mark Twain
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Lord Flashheart: Have you any idea what it's like to have the wind rushing through your hair, George?
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Flasheart: Treat your plane the same way you'll treat your woman. Get in her five times a day and bring her to heaven and back.
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Woof!
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant Anonymous
- The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine Winston Churchill, 1944
- Never argue with a fool. Onlookers may not be able to tell the difference. Mark Twain
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I wonder what the Suffragette movement thought about that!
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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I'm sure they found it as funny as everyone else.
"There are two ways of constructing a software design: One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies, and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies. The first method is far more difficult." - C.A.R. Hoare
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A lounge post yesterday led me to watch a movie which I hadn't known featured Rowan.
My life is not any richer for it.
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Commitstrip OTD: Goodbye Stephen Hawking[^]
I like to think he'd approve.
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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I think he would have preferred being in the weelchair but yes: I think he would have liked it.
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fd9750 wrote: I think he would have preferred being in the weelchair
Don't make pictures of god!
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A very moving and touching tribute to a wonderful human being.
"There are two ways of constructing a software design: One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies, and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies. The first method is far more difficult." - C.A.R. Hoare
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Quote: So yeah. Nectome is a preserve-your-brain-and-upload-it company. Its chemical solution can keep a body intact for hundreds of years, maybe thousands, as a statue of frozen glass. ...
The company has consulted with lawyers familiar with California’s two-year-old End of Life Option Act, which permits doctor-assisted suicide for terminal patients, and believes its service will be legal. The product is “100 percent fatal,” says McIntyre. “That is why we are uniquely situated among the Y Combinator companies.” [^]
«... thank the gods that they have made you superior to those events which they have not placed within your own control, rendered you accountable for that only which is within you own control For what, then, have they made you responsible? For that which is alone in your own power—a right use of things as they appear.» Discourses of Epictetus Book I:12
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Hundreds of years?
Is that similar to sperm/egg storage location that recently had a failure in their storage system. Much less than hundreds of years on that one.
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Kent beat you to it[^].
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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Kent beats me to everything !
«... thank the gods that they have made you superior to those events which they have not placed within your own control, rendered you accountable for that only which is within you own control For what, then, have they made you responsible? For that which is alone in your own power—a right use of things as they appear.» Discourses of Epictetus Book I:12
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I just got the same thing happening to me as I spotted your message!
Hawking dead! No one knows maths anymore!
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I saw that as well. I think it might have to do with failed and retried download attempts, so it might be showing the total of all the downloaded data.
This update cost me half a day due to our slow internet speed, canceling it and having to completely reinstall it.
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