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Im thinking about it, every business seems to taking advantage of it, what the heck, they way it is.

Id love to be more positive, but this is truly important for ANYONE who is to consider using Acronis products.

Check out the posts in the ATI 2015 forum and all the complaints therein.

Its running OS X 10.10, Parallels Desktop 10 and Windows 8.1.

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I was encouraged to learn there was an ATI version for Mac so I installed it.

What an unpleasant surprise Sleek GUI but functionality stripped down to the bone.

The Mac version is completely different from the previous PC version(2014), like Chalk and cheese.

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Over the first few days I tested a couple of bare metal restores however after restoring, the PD10 drivers would not load.

After several more days an updated version of ATI for Mac was made available which I installed and now the PD10 drivers load properly after a bare metal restore.

So the application now appears to work as far as basic functionality is concerned but it does little more than Apples Time Machine.

Maybe the early implementers of ATI for Mac are being used as beta testers.

It will not recover simple files (.pdf.docx) backed up by PC and pops the message: Failed to perform the operation because the backup settings are inconsistent.

The current ATI 2015 version claims it will work with PC and Mac however if one reads further, the backup and recovery processes describe PC operations not PC and Mac operations.

Its functionality is quite lacking, its very slow to backup andor restore, compared to Time Machine and probably not worth the money or effort to install and learn.

I could post about all of the negative aspects of quasi beta testing for software companies as well as 1st hand experience from behind the front lines, but it makes no sense, only irritates me.

Thanks.

The previous ATI PC version had a routine to convert ATI backups to Windows backups and vice-versa but it appears this has been dropped) Thats a huge discouragement to switch applications.

Over the next three or four years, the stripped-out functionality will be re-introduced in the form of valuable, progressive upgrades, for a fee.

I went through many painful periods of compatibility issues, etc., and tried a slew of other companies for what Acronis was promising.

I too felt abandoned, and chose Macrium Reflect, and never, ever looked back.

Works well, and you can convert to VMs with their tools, etc.

Mac has proven to be the OS of choice, and being the largest valued company in the world is not just for the bling, but for the rock solid OS.

Again, SuperDuper and CarbonCopy Cloner work well, and also, if desired, ChronoSync can be used to sync backups.

My own slanted opinion and 2 cents is after getting to the top, the profits are sucked out, and the shriveled up remains do not survive or validate consideration.

You might want to read, and think about considering getting into a business where you can profit while the loophole exists.

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