[X4U] Odd Back Up Problem

[Terry Devlin]

Hi folks, hope someone here can help me.

A friend has a G3 iMac and uses imSafe to back up, but it has recently 
started misbehaving. Specifically, it allows her to select a folder to 
back-up, but when she goes to select a destination, the programme 
crashes. She called me, and I tried all the usuals, including dumping 
preference files, cleaning caches etc., to no avail. I then installed 
Deja Vu preference pane, and to my surprise I had exactly the same 
result, with a crash on selecting the second folder (regardless of 
whether I selected the Target or Destination folder first.) My 
curiosity aroused, I downloaded PsyncX and had exactly the same result.

However with Silverkeeper and iBackup I had no problems, but neither of 
these apps are up to what she requires in terms of automation etc., and 
especially with no back-up sets.

I created anew user and tried all of the above... and guess what: No 
problem whatsoever.

So, unless I miss my guess, something in the User Folder is causing 
these guys to crash on selecting the second folder, but I've no clue 
what. Any ideas?

Thanks in advance...

Terry Devlin

Every time you make something idiot-proof, some bastard re-invents the 
idiot.
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