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#1
Hi Greg,

Thank you for the detailed reply.  I will keep the points you made in mind if I decide to re-evaluate Espionage.

As I mentioned, it really looked promising, but having data corrupted so early in the evaluation process, using a core feature of the product, is/was of great concern.

Regards,
KP
#2
Espionage 2 / Address book corrupted - Bye Bye Espionage
September 09, 2010, 09:05:51 AM
I have been evaluating Espionage (2.8.5) for a couple of days.  The product really looked promising to me, until it corrupted my Address Book.  :x  

I used an application template to encrypt the address book.  During this process an Alert was displayed that the backup of SyncServices had failed and should be re-run.  So, I did this via the Global Status menu's Backup Now option.

All seemed well.  Address Book and associated applications (mail, Safari, etc) were working fine -- Until I logged out and then back in.  Upon login and after being asked for the auto-unlock password, I received an Alert - Will not delete folder 'AddressBook' because it is not empty!  Renamed to 'AddressBook-saved'.  I opened my Address book to find that all entries (hundreds) were gone.  :shock:

Both the folders ../AddressBook and ../AddressBook-saved found in ../Library/Application Support appeared to have problems.  AddressBook itself didn't work and the -saved version was clearly missing some files.

Fortunately, I hand not yet emptied my Trash, which had the original AddressBook folder placed there by the initial encryption attempt.  I renamed the corrupt AddressBook folder and then manually dragged/dropped the original from the Trash back to ../Library/Application Support.  All was well again.  :D

Unfortunately, this has tainted my experience with Espionage.  There is just no way that I can trust an application that can potentially corrupt vast amounts of sensitive data.  In the above described case, I was saved by still having the original folder in the Trash.  Perhaps it would have been recoverable from the ../EspionageBackups folder as well, I don't know.  However, the point is that it shouldn't have been corrupted in the first place.

Maybe I'll give Espionage another go at some later revision, but for now, I'll have to remove it from my system.  One scare was just one too many.

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KP
#3
Espionage 2 / "Backup Now" only on Global Status menu
September 09, 2010, 08:13:37 AM
Version 2.8.5

I cannot seem to find a way to force a backup other than from the Global Status menu.  This poses an inconvenience when the option to show the Global Status menu is disabled.

This all came about when encrypting my Address Book and there was a backup failure of the SyncServices folder.  The Alert suggested re-running the backup.

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KP
#4
Espionage 2 / Lock All Folders global shortcut
September 08, 2010, 09:25:48 PM
Hi,

I'm using the trial version 2.8.5.

On the Global Status menu, there is an option to Lock All Folders.

It would be nice to have a user-defined, global shortcut to activate this option.  It would be especially useful if it was also available when the Global Status menu is disabled.

I know that locking all folders quickly can be achieved by logging out, but sometimes this is not desirable.

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KP
#5
Espionage 2 / Alerts show even when disabled
September 08, 2010, 09:14:46 PM
Hi,

I'm using trial version 2.8.5 and have noticed that the the Alert Denying Access still presents itself even though I have Show Info Notifications and Use Growl for Notifications unchecked on the Preferences/Notification panel.

KP