I am evaluating DO9 for purchase and have run into a major snag. I have a home built PC desktop running Win7 (64bit) and a laptop (MacBookPro) which is bootcamped and is running Win7 (64bit) also. On the desktop, everything works fine. Nice features and saved my bacon actually as I am rebuilding my home server and your sync function has helped in restoring all of the files correctly. I am running into an issue however in using it on my laptop. This issue may be related as to how I am using it. What I am doing, as I mentioned, is synchronizing a number of hard drives from a backup and from an older machine. I am using external FW drives that can be removed and swapped. The backup drives are formatted FAT32. The server that I am copying them to is a Linux server (Fedora 13). On my PC desktop, as I mention, everything seems to work fine. That machine is synchronizing FAT32 drives with the Linux server. On my laptop, the drives that I am synchronizing are HFS file system drives from a MacPro (Snow Leopard OSX) that I have replaced with the new PC. Windows 7 will recognize the drive and read from it correctly. I know I cannot write to the drive but I am not trying to do that. I am simply reading from the HFS drive and then copying to the Linux server. When I try to use DO9 for this purpose it goes nuts. It will read the HFS drive correctly but if I try to drag and drop from the HFS drive to the Linux server it does a number of different things depending upon what I do. If I drag a collection of folders, it will copy the first folder (not the contents) and then quit. If I select files it acts like it copied them but when I check with Explorer they are not there nor does DO9 indicate that it is there. If I try to synchronize between any two directories it gives multiple strange results, none of which are correct.
I'd really like to purchase DO9 and it appears for most of my work it would probably be fine but I do work with both OS types due to the nature of my work and having it go crazy with reading HFS drives is a big negative.
Windows does not support HFS out of the box. What are you using to read the HFS drives in Windows? Is that part of BootCamp? (If it is part of BootCamp is it available separately or only if you buy an Apple computer?)
Good question, I have no idea. Maybe I'm suffering under a happy/unhappy set of circumstances. I never installed anything on my laptop installation other than bootcamp and win7. I do remember however that in the process of installing the OS that bootcamp put something there. I noticed there is a mystery installation of something that I can see in the install/uninstall selection from Apple, which more that likely is allowing me to view HFS files.
If this is obviously the case then probably what is allowing your app to read the HFS drives may be causing the troubles. It was disturbing to see that it was loosing information from my linux server as you should not be seeing anything there from a low level standpoint. My linux box is running Samba and the files seen by any external machine is through a samba share which should be independent of any low level format issues. It may be that the HFS interface was simply causing your app to go bonkers in general.
In the end it is not as big a deal as I originally thought. I forgot that I have a file sync application on the mac side and for times I need that function I can do things on that side. It's more convenient to have it all in one but not a killer if I don't. You've got some pretty nice features in Opus, much more than the other alternatives I've seen on the market. So I understand I believe I can install both on my desktop and my laptop with the purchase of a single license correct?
From Wikipedia it sounds like they are Apple's drivers, and thus not available to anyone without a Mac. The page lists a couple of other HFS+ drivers for Windows that may (or may not) cause things to go better, but I don't know if they're worth trying: