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August 31, 2011 01:31 PM

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gregskey

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Recently I have been unable to do remote scheduled backups using the Seagate Manager utility with my Dockstar/hard drives. The Seagate Manager refuses to detect the hard drives connected to the Dockstar. It returns the message "No external drives were found. Make sure your external drive is connected and turned on." Well, I contacted both Seagate support and Pogoplug support. After numerous email exchanges with Pogoplug support they suggested that the problem was with Seagate Manager. Made sense to me. After contacting Seagate support I received the following reply, "Unfortunately, the newest version of Pogoplug software is not compatible with Seagate Manager. You will have to connect the drives directly to the computer in order to use Seagate Manager with the drives." WHAT !!! That was the entire content of the email. No suggested resolution to my problem or what Seagate planned on doing about it. After replying to the email with many questions, I'm currently waiting for a reply. To say the least, at this point in time, I'm not a happy guy! I'm wondering if any of you who own a Dockstar and use Seagate Manager are experiencing the same problem. I can't believe I'm the only person going through this. I've seen no mention of this problem on the forum(s). If you have experienced this I would like to know what your interaction with Seagate support was like. Do you have any work-around for the now lost remote scheduled backup capability that Seagate Manager used to provide? I find it hard to believe that Seagate Technical Support is not communicating with Pogoplug Technical Support, and visa-versa, regarding this problem. Any information would be appreciated.  Thanks, Greg

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August 31, 2011 2:45 PM

Greg--
I'm not using the Dockstar. I have the Pogoplug hardware (the pink one with 3 USB ports). I have two external hard drives plugged into the Pogoplug with Active Copy set up to mirror Drive A to Drive B (but it never does).

But the response to your problems that you are seeing is not unlike my own. "Unfortunately, the newest version of Pogoplug software is not compatible with Seagate Manager." Wow! Thanks a lot for the help.

Operative word is unfortunately. I feel that is was UNFORTUNATE to have bought into the Pogoplug hype in the first place and spent any of my money with them.

I would not be optimistic that you will get a satisfactory solution. My first tech support posting on problems with ActiveCopy was on 10-Aug-2010. A year has gone by and no improvement.

I hope you have more success than I have.

August 31, 2011 11:53 PM

Guineaman,
Yeah, I'm not that optimistic, but I'll see how this plays out. Maybe they will get their act together. All the "hype" aside, I hope they realize that service after the sale is important and not an after-thought. In the past I have purchased many Seagate and Maxtor products. That can change.

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