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*Spitting mad at .Mac*

arkitect

arkitect

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Sep 5, 2005
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What in gods name is up with this crappy service?

More to the point… why do I keep renewing my subscription to it? :eek:

I made some archives of my Mail folders… so would like to keep a back-up and use some of my 10Gig .Mac space (Wahaaay!!!:rolleyes::rolleyes:) Not huge folders — 200MB total.

So the whole day I have been trying to transfer a few folders… message says:
Transfering 64.5MB etc etc… then "closing file" and it hangs… for hours… I can see with Activity Monitor that 0KB/s is being uploaded. When you cancel the transfer Finder becomes completely unresponsive. *sigh*

.Mac has always been sloooow as treacle, but this is beyond acceptable use. :mad:
What a waste of time and money — or is it just in the UK and Europe that we are provided with an unusable service?

My advice to anyone thinking of getting .Mac? Don't!
 
I am sorry you have so much trouble with your .Mac. I love my service. Please understand that I am not trivializing your concerns, I just want people to know that there are also those of us who are very satisfied. I have been using .Mac since 2000.:)
 
yoda13 said:
I am sorry you have so much trouble with your .Mac. I love my service. Please understand that I am not trivializing your concerns, I just want people to know that there are also those of us who are very satisfied. I have been using .Mac since 2000.:)
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Yup. I joined in 2000 as well…

But the .Mac service in the USA is vastly superior to that dished out to the rest of us outside. :(
 
NAG said:
Hm, weird. The update improved the hang on "closing" thing for me. What connection are you using?
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20MB VirginMedia…

Everything else works fine… uploading the *same* set of folders to my own domain's server took 30 minutes — and no problems.

So if GoDaddy.com can do this surely Apple can? :rolleyes::rolleyes::confused::confused:
 
arkitect said:
Yup. I joined in 2000 as well…

But the .Mac service in the USA is vastly superior to that dished out to the rest of us outside. :(
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I learned something today, I honestly didn't know there were any differences...

That is silly, the service ought to be the same everywhere.
 
yoda13 said:
I learned something today, I honestly didn't know there were any differences...

That is silly, the service ought to be the same everywhere.
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How right you are: It ought to be the same. It costs us the same money (if not more)… :mad:

Anyway! Sorry for ranting like this… :eek::eek: but sometimes you have to wonder about Apple Inc.
 
I've had .mac twice in the past few years and found it horrible and cancelled within the first month both times.

One tip you might want to try is to use a program such as Transmit to upload to your iDisk instead of Finder. It is much more reliable and speedy.
 
Fuchal said:
I've had .mac twice in the past few years and found it horrible and cancelled within the first month both times.

One tip you might want to try is to use a program such as Transmit to upload to your iDisk instead of Finder. It is much more reliable and speedy.
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Thanks for the tip. :) I will try that.

What is frustrating though is Apple leads everyone to believe that "it all just works"

Sometimes I really have to stop drinking so much of that damn KoolAid… :p
 
NAG said:
Yeah, I'm still waiting on those exclusive dotmac widgets for 10.4 that they promised. Whoops. Unfortunately, it is still the easiest service to sync multiple macs.
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Remember those? :p Oh, pity the gullible and easily-led. :eek:

I can only imagine what a horror it must be trying out the "Back to My Mac" service must be…

Has anyone even tried that?
 
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