I use Carbonite on my Mac, have done since owning a Mac, circa October 2010. I have it on all three of my Mac's.
The icon for it at the top of the screen near to the clock is, as others have said, inaccessible. However, it is easily accessed through the System Preferences menus. Given you setup Carbonite and then can forget about it, this hardly seems a major limitation to me. I once a month nip into it, just to check all looks good, that the indicators for how much data has been backed up etc are seeming right, and once a week I leave my Mac on all night to ensure that the backup is completely up to date. This is only necessary if you change / update a lot of content on a regular bases. The reason I specifically like Carbonite compared to a lot of the other backup options out there is that it is fully automated, download, install, pay and leave it alone. It just works. You can use their web-site quite easily to check your specific files which are currently backed up, you can, within the System Preferences controls indicate an automatic backup, or a specific set of files / folders you want to be backed up. This is what I do, as i am not worried about applications or other such things, I just backup all users Documents, Music, Movies and Pictures folders. This gets all the essential stuff. I also use Time Machine to backup all machines locally to a NAS. But, yes, Carbonite works just fine for the most part, certainly if you just want a point and shoot backup solution you can feel confident in, Carbonite will not let you down. Regards, Neil Barnfather Talks List Administrator Twitter @neilbarnfather TalkNav is a Nuance, Code Factory and Sendero dealer, for all your accessible phone, PDA and GPS related enquiries visit www.talknav.com URL: - www.talknav.com e-mail: - serv...@talknav.com Phone: - +44 844 999 4199 On 3 Apr 2012, at 10:25, Gigi wrote: Hi guys It's interesting that you should say that you had been able to use Carbonite just fine. I tried to use Carbonite back in the days when I was using Windows. I couldn't get it to work completely withdraws. Also, I did not have good luck with their customer service. I called them and the customer support person just didn't get it one tried to explain that I was trying to use the speech computer. I'm buying all this up to say that it's real interesting that some of these third-party companies say that things won't work with voiceover, and then folks on this list start using the program. Four instance, the Abby find Wietor people told me that their program wouldn't work with voiceover. I know, some of you are talking about using it. So, what does that mean were supposed to do if we want to know if something works with voice over for sure? Regards Gigi Sent from my iPhone On Apr 3, 2012, at 3:39 AM, Dan Eickmeier <va3ets2...@me.com> wrote: > My experience with carbonite is that it actually is fairly accessible. ONe > issue I do have, is when I attempt to look at my backup, I can't drill > down into my backup, like I can any folder that has sub-folders in finder, > I seem to get taken back to the top level of my backup when attempting to do > this. It's interesting that Carbonite support actually said it's totally > inaccessible with VO. the system pref pane is actually not too bad in my > opinion, with the exception of that one issue. Carbonite like a lot of > third-party apps does have an item in the menu bar, which we cannot access. > Aside from that, I've actually been very happy with carbonite on the mac. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
