Jrileye on "Interupted"
Noobie here. Humble home user with 1 PC, Win 7 64 bit. Started first backup yesterday, got to about 10% of 78 GB. Accidentally was turned off without restart aouthorization. Now it is running again, at...
View ArticleGrant837 on "Can iDrive please explain what Local Backup backs up and how?"
My local backup of 700GB runs for 7-8 hours each time. The log summary each time looks pretty much the same: [Files considered for backup: 128411] [Files already present in your device: 126413] [Files...
View ArticleBerzelius on "Is it possible to have more than one Local Backup?"
If I use the iDrive local backup it is on a USB drive and, by the nature of such devices, it can be painfully slow. What I would like is to have more than one local backup. With two I could have one...
View ArticleElroy on "How to disable 'Upgrade Storage' iDrive pop-up in Windows Desktop"
Whenever I start-up my computer (or at random times), I am annoyingly greeted by a pop-up windows by iDrive begging me to upgrade my storage, even though I do not want to. I see no option to disable...
View ArticleSy Clops on "Can't Reinstall iDrive on Mac"
My MacMini server main hard drive failed. It was replaced, restored and operational quickly, however, I cannot reinstall iDrive. I've tried numerous times and all I get is 'Installation Fail'. I've...
View ArticleGrant837 on "I can only see logs going back two days..."
Hi, I only can find the logs of my backups going back two days... while the drop down box indicates I should be able to see all them from ' the begining of time'. How can I see my logs that are older...
View ArticleFlashPan on "Change Email Report Header?"
Hi, Currently I get: Backup Status Report [MY ACCOUNT NAME] [Backed up file(s): 4 of 4] [Successful Backup] I would like to replace or add the name of the device/PC that performed the backup and the...
View ArticleLJamesJohnson on "Massive archive cleanup"
I must have had my setting wrong from the get-go. I am now over my 1000 gig limit, again. There is something about iDrive that just doesn't compute for my brain and if I get extra charges again I"ll...
View ArticleSqCS on "Backup to Network Location(s)"
iDrive supports backup of mapped drives, but as far as I can tell, it does not allow local backups to be saved to a network location. Saving the local backup onto something other than the device being...
View Articlecolinprob on "I drive is very slow at uploading"
Dear sir, madam, I see many people in the forum experiencing the same thing: very very slow uploads. In my case not even 1% of the speed of my connection. You are not addressing this problem correctly,...
View ArticleDC17 on "Export file listing"
Is there any way to export a listing of all my backed up folder/files to a text file, so that I can keep an offline record of what is backed up.
View ArticleJGrace on "Deselected folders using selective sync feature but local disk...
Steps taken: 1. Deselected folders using selective sync feature 2. observe that folders are gone from main sync folder 3. observe that local storage is not being recovered 4. found out that the space...
View ArticleElenaRuiz on "copy data from another computer"
Hello. I have Idrive installed in a Desktop PC1 (my Office) with 300Gg information to backup My internet connection is very slow (DSL) Can I?: . Copy 300Gb information to USB disc . Install idrive...
View ArticlePC Dr on "Recover backed up file via iPhone app"
I have installed the iPhone app and would like to use it to recover at a remote location certain files that have been backed up on my home system. Recovery, I presume, would occur via email -- I'd...
View ArticleBertH on "previous backups seem incomplete How do I know if everything is in...
This morning I clicked the more link in the status report. To my surprice I saw that a lot of files in the mydocuments folder are backed up for the first time. although they are already for many yers...
View ArticleJustinLW on "Changing the name of a folder, or moving folders around on local...
I currently have my backup automated for my local drives. If I change the name of a folder on my local drive, will iDrive re-upload the entire folder under the new name during the next backup? If I...
View ArticleFLJohnson on "Mac System Folder Not Showing"
I am a first-time user of iDrive. I just finished backup of my Mac's hard drive, but the System folder is not showing as being backed up. It also isn't showing as being available to be checked (which...
View ArticleDistorted Vision on "Private Key Encryption: Filenames"
I was just wondering if filenames are encrypted on IDrive's servers when using private key encryption. The Terms & Conditions state: "Encryption System IDrive supports 256-bit AES data encryption...
View Articledavidrob on "Backing up WD My Cloud to iDrive"
Anybody had any success (or lack of) trying to back up a WD My Cloud to iDrive? Not through a computer, but directly from the My Cloud device. Since the My Cloud is a Linux box, can that add in be used...
View ArticleMr Jinx on "Idrive slow restore, capped to 3 Mbit/s?"
I am currently doing a large restore. The restore speed does not go any higher than 3 Mbit/s. Is Idrive capping network speed? A little background: My connection is 200Mbit/s down and 20Mbit/s up....
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