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philwhite100 11-09-2011 14:23

V Stuff ?
 
Not sure if i have posted this in the right section so appologies if not.

I have just installed the V Stuff software but it won't launch without issues.
Now i noticed that there is no mention of Vista 64bit being compatible which is what i have so is this why it won't work??

Thanks.

Nopanic 11-09-2011 21:30

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No idea, you'd need to give me more than that to go off ? what's it doing ?

philwhite100 12-09-2011 19:04

Re: V Stuff ?
 
As soon as i try to launch V Stuff i just get the window popping up saying the program has stopped responding.

Nopanic 13-09-2011 08:25

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Certainly something not right PC side, be that the OS version or something conflicting ..

kwikbreaks 13-09-2011 11:01

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If it's the backup and storage you are looking at then imo you ain't missing much - it won't backup across a network and is so abysmally slow your machine will probably be obsolete before it's done the initial backup anyway. It really isn't worth the price.

mark1234 13-09-2011 13:00

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Quote:

Originally Posted by kwikbreaks (Post 35299613)
If it's the backup and storage you are looking at then imo you ain't missing much - it won't backup across a network and is so abysmally slow your machine will probably be obsolete before it's done the initial backup anyway. It really isn't worth the price.

Have you tried it recently? I agree it was utterly unusable but at some point in the last few months it has been upgraded and now works at a reasonable speed.

roughbeast 13-09-2011 15:12

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Agreed. It is a waste of disc space. I haven't used it in years.

kwikbreaks 13-09-2011 15:16

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Originally Posted by mark1234 (Post 35299645)
Have you tried it recently? I agree it was utterly unusable but at some point in the last few months it has been upgraded and now works at a reasonable speed.

Last time I used it was after a fanfared upgrade. It's useless for me as I already back everything up to a networked raid and it was that which I wanted to back up offsite - it won't do that. I did try it out as a single machine backup which is what it is designed to work as and found it was hideously slow at that time. I'm not inclined to waste another half hour of my life on it.

Nopanic 15-09-2011 07:49

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Works well for me and many thousand other customers, not sure what you did wrong :)

kwikbreaks 15-09-2011 09:06

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Originally Posted by Nopanic (Post 35300319)
Works well for me and many thousand other customers, not sure what you did wrong :)

So does it backup your NAS drive then? If so I may reinstall it.

Nopanic 15-09-2011 11:59

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Originally Posted by kwikbreaks (Post 35300332)
So does it backup your NAS drive then? If so I may reinstall it.

If your machine detects it as a drive it will.

kwikbreaks 15-09-2011 12:14

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In Windows you can assign a drive letter to it but the VM software wouldn't back it up last time a tried. I don't think it worked with USB drives either come to that.

It would be a useful facility if they just let you use FTP with the space instead of their software.

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Remote installed on home machine - it doesn't see (or simply ignores) the mapped network drive. Not there so can't try plugging in a usb disk but I'm pretty much certain it won't work with them either.

From memory it also removes stuff from the backup if you delete it on the local drive - is that the case?

Nopanic 15-09-2011 17:22

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If its running it will look at changes you make and copy you.

If you have files you want to keep, just upload them directly to the webUI ..

I didnt know NAS wouldnt work, thats a bit poo

kwikbreaks 15-09-2011 17:36

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Originally Posted by Nopanic (Post 35300482)
If its running it will look at changes you make and copy you.

So there is no protection for accidental deletion then. It also explains why potentially removable drives are not supported.

I haven't tied again but from memory the UI is picky over folder sizes - uploading a few GB of photos would mean splitting it down into smaller steps and doing them bit at a time manually.

philwhite100 15-09-2011 21:10

Re: V Stuff ?
 
I just insatlled it with no problem but it refuses to launch afterwards.
My Laptop with Vista 32 bit is fine but the Desktop with Vista 64 bit is the problem.

Anyway all i want to do is use it for the free photo printing offer.


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