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December 8, 2010 12:15 PM

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Johncoffee

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I was happy when Pogoplug copied my 96GB iTunes library just before (see last thread). It appears that Active Copy started somehow again at 0%, no file is accessible at the drive anymore.

All is terrible sluggish - no data transfer takes place when looking at my wireless throughput with Net Monitor.

Conclusion: Pogoplug is a good concept, but simply doesn't work as described. The software is not ready - not at all - and terrible buggy. I have the latest version 2.5.5 installed to no avail.

Too bad. It seems that I need to wait for a upgrade.

..or is there any other suggestion?

Cheers

John

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December 8, 2010 2:01 PM

Please contact support@pogoplug.com. What you are trying to do should work great (I use it in the same way) - support will help figure out what's going on.

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December 8, 2010 2:13 PM

Jed said: Please contact support@pogoplug.com. What you are trying to do should work great (I use it in the same way) - support will help figure out what's going on.

Thanks Jed for your kind reply.

I did some further digging into the problem. What I found is the following:

- My WD Harddisk is Mac OS extended formatted when connecting directly to my iMac via USB

- It shows as a Generic File System (MacFuse) when looking at it with when connected to the Pogoplug (CMD-I)

- With Disk repair, there where issues with the drive. Maybe the reason for this is that I've disconnected the drive several times when problems appeared.

- After repairing with Disk Utility, all seems fine again.

- Active copy tells me now "Copy up-to-date" and sometimes starts from 0% but rushes to 100% within a minute or two. There seems to be a intelligent copy strategy. I didn't know that, maybe I missed that at some point.

- I'll add now a Copy my Movies task to see how it performs.

Keep you posted!

BR 

John

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December 9, 2010 5:07 PM

Some updates:
- I was able to get the Active copy done for "my Movies" of my OS X user account to the Pgoplug drive.
- Tonite I lost my Airport connection for a short time. The Pogoplug drive however didn't update anymore in the finder once the Airport connection had been reestablished.
- Access through the web interface however still worked.
- I disconnected the drive in the web interface and tried to reconnect. --> nope. Didn't work anymore
- Power cycle the Drive and try to reconnect. Nada - Pogoplug thinks that there is no drive attached to it
- Power cycle Pogoplug as well: Nada - drive doesn't mount anymore

Next:
- connect the drive direct to my iMac and run Disk Utility.
Result:
- Volume corrupt and needs to be repaired.
- Disk Utility tells me that it stopped repairing the disk and that I should back up as many of my files as possible and to reformat the disk! Bummer !! This supposed to be a backup disk drive!

I didn't do anything wrong to the drive - I just lost my internet connection 1 hr ago and ejected the drive in the web interface.

Conclusion: Not only Version 2.5.5 of Pogoplugs software has severe flaws, but also the Pogoplug unit itself seems to corrupt a hard drive completely.

I give up this experiment - I'm bothered to get in touch with support - I simply doubt that this is a real product for the time being. Other users seem to have similar problems. I can't recommend this product at all.
Pogoplugs team should have a look how "Dropbox" works. Simply amazing. I would wish that Pogoplug would work like Dropbox. But that seems to by another class.

A heavy disappointed user

John

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February 17, 2011 9:08 AM

I've been browsing the forums looking for answers, as my PogoPlug problems seem to be mounting. I totally agree: good concept, but the company doesn't really know how to implement it very well: 2.5.5 is buggy, the website is buggy, the device corrupts most drives I've hooked up to it (these are drives I never have issues with when I use them for recording HD audio, which would immediately point out if there were flaws), and it seems there's no one who knows how to sort out the problems. Sadly, after a month of trying to sort this out, my return option with the retailer has run out, so now Pogoplug has eaten my time AND money.
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April 11, 2011 7:36 AM

I've had a series of problems recently: fat and os journaled hard drives need repairing when ejected and plugged into a mac. It's certainly not a problem with the drives as I've swapped and changed different makes and the same thing seems to be happening. Anyone else getting this issue?

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