Doing a selective restore is worse. You pretty much have to select one folder at a time – let it do it s hing, then select the next one. Why? because it can’t parse nested folders. It’ll restore the folders but no files in them. You have to go back and open-restore one-by-one.

Here’s a few tips to make it better

- Make sure you’ve turned off any kind of “sleep” or “hibernation”. Ditto screen savers, power managers, anything that might disturb the running state of the computer. If it gets interrupted, you get to start your restore over from scratch.

- Unless you’re talking one or two files – don’t even think about a selective restore. Carbonite works best when you let it run a total restore. Everything else is a kludge.

- Use the “Carbonite Backup Drive” in “Computer” – NOT the mess in the restore center or the online file access.

- Check and double-check you got what you want back… you only have 30 days. 30 days after the file is removed from your host computer, it also disappears from your backup set. Don’t assume you got everything back.. go into the folders one by one and double-check.

Here’s the best tip – always restore to a DIFFERENT computer. What I do is restore to a spare computer with an external HDD. That way I’m not tying up my “main” computer for days during a file restore process. Then you can just drag/drop your files over to the computer you backed up originally. I realize not everyone has a spare computer kicking around, but if you do… it’s the way to go. Just do a total restore on the spare – let it run for 4-5 days undisturbed, and you’re done.

Of course, be sure to back up your other working computer while you’re restoring your backup on a different one, because Carbonite will not be backing up any new work while it’s restoring .

I’m trying out Mozy home right now …. I switched off of it years ago because its restore procedure was even worse, but that was years ago. I’m betting they have improved it. It’s worth a month at $4.95 to find out if it’s the better of the two solutions at the moment.

I’m starting to wonder if I’ve been duped all these years thinking Steve Jobs was “one of the good guys.”

Now the Justice Dept. and EU equivalent are climbing all over his ass. I hope they take a bite.

Flash and the iPhone….Flash and the iPod are positively made for each other.

We’ve launched somewhat of a free version of iAnnotate called iRead. It has shot up to the top 40 overall apps in less than 2 days, and it allows a lot of the features that make iAnnotate great.

Features:

- full-featured PDF reading
- easy PDF transferring via email and iTunes sync
- fully customizable toolbars
- tabbed PDF reading
- document and full-library search

So if you were on the fence for iAnnotate, be sure to check iRead out and tell us your thoughts!

Regards,
Daniel

iTunes link:
http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/iread-pdf/id378450857?mt=8

These are concept maps (as far as I can see). You may want to check out Cmaptools client/server (free) at: http://cmap.ihmc.us/

~ Rodney

I should probably worry more than I do, because I, too, have a lot of stuff in thek Cloud, in the custody of companies who may or may not care what happens to my data.

Best of luck finally finishing this horrendous problem fix.