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thx for this nice tool, i installed it but i do not find the activation Point. how to enter the key.
After entering the provided licence key, it still shows only 180-day validity. Please advise.
[@Fakir Hassen] Be sure to press the big green “Activate” button in the License window after you entry the activation key, NOT just press Enter (which only closes this window).
[@Danilo] Press the yellow “Buy BitCopy” button, enter the key in the resulting license dialog, then press the green Activate button which will appear once the key is entered.
Installed, then uninstalled immediately. Badly behaved software.
When you launch it under a non-admin account (as you should), nothing happens. Nada. You need to Run as admin. Otherwise, the UAC prompt won’t even appear.
It’s not high DPI aware, and can’t be made so by ticking the DPI box in Properties. The user interface is blurry (Windows 7 here).
It checks for the licence at launch every – single – time. With a progress bar, and all. Presumably connecting to the activation server.
Theres’s no proper help available, only a meagre FAQ under the guise of an rtf file.
There’s a warning message each time you quit the program, with no obvious way to opt out of it.
Nothing is said about this program being able to copy faster than Windows, which is one of the main reasons to use a third-party program.
Close to nothing is said about what happens when some files fail to be copied. Error resilience is the other big reason to use a third-party program, instead of the built-in Windows function.
Complex, outdated user interface. Website straight out of the 90’s.
[@Clairvaux] Yes, you must be an admin to install and run BitCopy. It does NOT check for a license at every launch, but only on first launch to obtain a license. Subsequently, it just checks the local license file. Sorry you don’t like my FAQ. BitCopy is designed to run always since it allows you to schedule copies, thus the warning box when you quit. It doesn’t copy faster than Windows necessarily (although it does in cases with large directories involved), but is vastly more flexible in terms of selecting files to be copied. When a file copy fails, the error is clearly reported in the copy journal and counted on the main screen summary pane. Sorry you don’t like my software… :-(
[@MolllieSoft] Very good to see that Molliesoft is here to support their product. Good answers to some good questions, thank you! I normally use an excellent program from the late, great Karen Kenworthy (Replicator) for the array of backup jobs I have at work. Many small backups to manage. I’m very intrigued with your advanced filters, it sounds like I could use fewer backup jobs. Might work very well at home to run before I shut down, to copy any changed files from certain folders to OneDrive with a single button press. If it’s easy to set up a copy, and I don’t need to save and name things before running, this could help me manage files while I’m working on music or photos or backing up saved game folders before starting up a game. I used to trust Microsoft’s file explorer for copies but after seeing it quit without warning or any way to find out how far it got (copying one external drive to another), I never use it except for very simple copies. I very much like Free Commander XE for managing files, but think BitCopy sounds like a great solution for more advanced situations. Looking forward to trying it out, thanks!
[@Mr.Dave] To set up a copy job, just add a new copy set, then specify the source and target directories. By default, everything at or below the source will be copied to parallel directories at the target. Later you can add a schedule if you wish so it will happen automatically, or set up a file filter to restrict which files are copied. Enjoy!
[@MolllieSoft] Thanks, I was just reading your very nice and thorough and organized FAQ file. BitCopy is a very extensive program! I can see it being excellent if you have many servers or PCs connected and need to do selective backups on a schedule. Your filters and ways to compare text and values are very flexible. I know I will be able to use this at home to easily perform backups of certain folders and files in between the full partition backups that I don’t do often enough.
In my opinion, MollieSoft has done a very good job of thinking through what’s important. It’s not as simple as drag’n’drop but it handles so much more. Once it’s set up you can run when needed or automate and forget about it. I haven’t gone through the steps of creating a copy set, but the help is good and program seems laid out well.
How about a little higher rating for this software? Seems to me that most comments here are somewhat favorable. Even the software developer has contributed some positive information. Often that is rather rare.
It doesn’t launch on my Windows 10 64 bit.
thank you
[@Jun] Please provide me with some more details about the launch failure. Email me at [email protected].
[@MolllieSoft]
It is a very rare occasion to see the software provider here providing support and I just wanted to say thank you for that! You being here is the primary reason I will try this.If I am understanding the program correctly, it can do a simple folder backup manually or on a schedule from, for example, the “C” drive to an external drive, and beyond that more intricate levels of copying. As a single machine home user, I am not sure I have a use for the higher levels but I am downloading it to try the simple type of backup I mentioned.
Additionally, I think it is great that you provide the downloadable FAQ so one does not have to be online when needing to read it. It is actually more of an instruction manual so you might want to consider renaming it as such. Just a thought.
Thank you for this offering. And thank you to SOS.
