I'm backing up to a G-Tech G-Drive Q with a Samsung Spinpoint F1 using Firewire 800. The computer is a MacBook Pro 2.4Ghz, 256MB nVidia graphics, 4GB RAM and 160GB internal hard drive. Sorry but I never buy software before I have tried it.Īnyway, regarding this problem, I got the SuperDuper! 2.5(v84) and Mac OS X 10.5.4.

Since you give no trial option, a couple of days ago I downloaded the full version from a P2P network and I will try it for a while, in case I'll continue with it I'll buy it, otherwise I will delete it. Having made the switch to Mac in October and after some good comments about your software in both MacCast and MacBreak Tech, as well as in my web research, I wanted to try it out.

Interestingly, when I use the option 'Quit SuperDuper!' instead of 'Shut Down Computer' there is no such problem and SD quits soon after the backup completes. (While writing this, I realized that I did not try a manual shutdown while SD is still running, should try that also.) If the shutdown does not occur, I can easily quit SD in any way (closing the window, using the application menu, using command-Q) and subsequently shutdown manually. However, I noticed that when the shutdown does occur, it takes an unusual long time (much longer than I was used to in previous OS versions) before SD is quit and the machine is shutdown. I have not been able to figure out if there are specific different circumstances when the shutdown occurs and when in doesn't. Sometimes the shutdown occurs as expected, but most of the times the message 'Logout has timed out because the application SuperDuper! failed to quit' appears after a while. I always do a manually started backup (smart update) at the end of the day of all files on my internal HD, always to the same external FireWire disk, always with the same settings, among which the option to shut down the computer after the backup completes. I have used SD for four years on different successive machines and OSX versions and never had the problem before. The problem started for me after upgrading the OS from 9.4.11 to 9.5.3. I have the very same problem, but with manually started backups.

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