Fab's AutoBackup 7 Pro - a must have tool for techs

The arrangement of desktop icons has to be the least important 'data' to be transferred. I've never been asked, and none of my customers has ever cared. I remove icons that are obviously not needed (e.g. bloatware app shortcuts), and move old icons to the centre away from the list of freshly installed apps.

Any user that has moved icons around obviously knows how to do it, and they're probably the type that enjoys arranging them!
 
I have used a utility called ReIcon (from Sordum, previously mentioned recently) for this purpose.

Yes, you have to install it and "take a snapshot" prior, but once you have it you can use it with an existing snapshot to rearrange on a different machine.
 
Is there going to be a FABS AutoBackup 8 any time in the near horizion?

I bought a copy of AutoBackup 6 PRO during a backup day sale... I want to say in 2015 or 2016? I love the software, and have gotten more than my moneys worth out of it. It even had the perc of alterting me to some files with issues... pictures IIRC, that were ultimately causing me one heck of a hassle trying to migrate a user profile. Tried it the "by hand" method first, was driving me nuts. Remembered I bought, and fired up FABS... BAM! Now your cooking! Deleted those messed up files and presto.

Even though version 6 PRO is doing everything I need. I'd love to support the software and buy a new verison. If I buy 7 PRO now and 8 comes out soon, what's the policy like in that situation? Discounted upgrade? Auto upgrade if your within such a time frame? Or, since this seems like a new thing since I bought my copy, if we are still in "support" do we get upgraded to the new version?

Not trying to be cheap, just not sure how this all works!

Thanks and Merry Christmas!
 
brandonkick said:
Is there going to be a FABS AutoBackup 8 any time in the near horizion?

I bought a copy of AutoBackup 6 PRO during a backup day sale... I want to say in 2015 or 2016? I love the software, and have gotten more than my moneys worth out of it. It even had the perc of alterting me to some files with issues... pictures IIRC, that were ultimately causing me one heck of a hassle trying to migrate a user profile. Tried it the "by hand" method first, was driving me nuts. Remembered I bought, and fired up FABS... BAM! Now your cooking! Deleted those messed up files and presto.

Even though version 6 PRO is doing everything I need. I'd love to support the software and buy a new verison. If I buy 7 PRO now and 8 comes out soon, what's the policy like in that situation? Discounted upgrade? Auto upgrade if your within such a time frame? Or, since this seems like a new thing since I bought my copy, if we are still in "support" do we get upgraded to the new version?

Not trying to be cheap, just not sure how this all works!

Thanks and Merry Christmas!
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There's no v8 in the plans so far. When I released v7, I offered a free conversion for people who bought their v6 up to 6 months before came out. With 7, things are a bit different. By default, v7 comes with updates (and upgrades) for one year (there's an option for 3 years instead), so, if a v8 comes out in this time frame, upgrade from v7 is included with no additional charge.
 
While transferring a corrupted profile to a new one on my system, I ran out of room on the target drive (system drive, which contains both profiles). I had relocated Documents and Pictures to a resident "data" hard drive (D:) years ago, and they are huge. The transfer ran out of room because those folders were unwittingly in the process of being transferred to the new profile. (I'm certain I restored those to their default locations before beginning the transfer but that didn't seem to matter.) So cancelled the task and used the Back button to deselect the Documents and Pictures folders, then clicked Next repeatedly to resume the task. The folders were still attempting to be transferred! It was only by exiting Fabs and restarting the job that I could exclude those folders if they had been deselected after the task had started.

I can't find a log file to pass along, so would have to experiment to re-create the problem to verify that I'm not mis-remembering what I did. Is it possible for Fabs to check whether the default folders have been moved, and to ask whether they should be skipped in the transfer? This would be common situation where a hard disk drive supplements a smaller SSD OS drive.
 
If folders have been relocated to another drive, Fab's detect it. I've been using redirected documents and downloads folders for years an never had any issue with it.
If there's a bug with deselected items being copied anyway, that should be easy to reproduce. I've done a transfer lately while there was a huge apple backup folder. Just like you, I've stopped the task, went back, unselected it and restart the job. The item was skipped as expected. Since it makes a new files list every time it starts a copy job, I must say that I'm puzzled with whatever happened to you here
 
Hello,
Fab's AutoBackup 7 Pro and Fab's AutoBackup 7 Home & Office V7.6.1.3688 have just been released.

Here is the change log for both versions:

Added:
- Pro only: Local cloud items can now be deselected by default by editing autobackup.ini file and adding "DontProcessCloud=1" value under "[CONFIG]" section.

Fixed:
- Drivers backup in command line mode was not working.
- The program could remain stuck in background while checking for updates availability. Now this process is triggered manually so it starts quicker.
- It is not possible to call updater tool from the link within program's interface with version 7.6.0.3532. If you are running version 7.6.0.3532, you will need to download full package from your store account to get this update.
- It is not possible to restart Home & Office version as administrator from the program's interface in version 7.6.0.3532. However, it was still possible to start it as administrator using right click on program's shortcut.
- There could be some error messages about PowerShell when running under Windows XP.

Grab it from your orders history's details on the shop's website at https://store.fpnet.fr/account.php?language=en
 
Hello,
Fab's AutoBackup 7 Pro and Fab's AutoBackup 7 Home & Office V7.6.0.3532 have just been released.

Here is the change log for both versions:

Fixed:
- The program could not find redirected folders paths when new path is elsewhere on C drive. For example, documents folder could be missed if its path is set to "C:\Documents" instead of "C:\Users\User_Name\Documents" as it was not found.
- QuickBooks company file cant get corrupted if QuickBooks processes are still running while backing up / transferring data. If such processes are detected a dialog will show up to prevent this.

Grab it from your orders history's details on the shop's website at https://store.fpnet.fr/account.php?language=en or using the bundled updater tool (click the "Download Fab's AutoBackup 7.X" link within the program and get the updated files).
 
I get the following error when attempting the update within the program:
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Then I get the 'Select files to download' dialog with an empty list.

Downloaded from the website, and noticed the new version is actually 7.6.1.3732
 
fincoder said:
I get the following error when attempting the update within the program:
View attachment 12460

Then I get the 'Select files to download' dialog with an empty list.

Downloaded from the website, and noticed the new version is actually 7.6.1.3732
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I'll look at it as soon as I can. In a first place, I would suspect a firewall issue. Sometimes, download.fpnet.fr, activate.fpnet.fr and store.fpnet.fr urls need to be whitelisted

Edit: just tested an update from 7.6.1.3688 and had no trouble. My #1 suspect remains firewall.
 
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Me too. But when I downloaded it from the store, it's the latest version and works fine. Checking for updates, it says I have the latest version.
 
I've looked at it. There may be some problem with that temporary control ini file not being released as it should be when updater starts.
I've added some piece of code in main exe so it should never be written on the disk. This way, updater should not output an error. That was the good news.
The bad one is that this change will be visible only for the update after next update since current main exe file can have that issue as well.
 
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pcservices said:
First time I'm hearing about this software! I'm going to check this out and show it to the other guys at the shop. I'm loving all the information I'm finding in these forums :)
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Dont forget to get your copy of WRT from fellow nibbler @AlexCa
Windows Repair Toolbox and Fabs are the two most important pieces of software you can have.
 
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