James,

Thank you for your reply, much appreciate it.

I agree with you, having alternative access methods goes a long way. Esp. the file system access sounds very promising. If you could consider making the code for that driver available eventually, and throw in some documentation, I'd consider the case closed

But I do understand that resources can be an issue, it is more a piece of mind kind of thing, nothing urgent.

Thank you,
Clemens

Hi,

The authors of another backup tool provide a detailed technical description of their backup format, as well as the source code for a restore-only command line utility. While I am not using this tool for different reasons, I find this approach very reassuring.

It has happened to many various times that software stopped working from one day to the next, "unexpectedly quitting" on every start, without any obvious reason. Software might not be compatible with future Mac OS changes. In the last year, various small software companies have been bought only to have their products discontinued by the new owners.

I am not suggesting that any of these scenarios will befall QRecall, but one simply never knows. Being able to access data under all circumstances is especially important for backup software, I think.

Any comments/thoughts would be appreciated.

Thank you,
Clemens