The Memeo Backup WD Anywhere backup that came bundled with WD MyBook was a good set-it-and-forget-it backup software. It came with the WD Anywhere external hard drive that I bought. I have been using for a good pass 18 months and it was almost quite smooth in its back up function. However recently the latest nagging requesting you to update its Memeo WD Anywhere Backup makes it out to be a very irritating nagware.<\/p>\n
All this while they have been giving free updates, which was not too bad, and I have been able to update the Memeo WD Anywhere Backup software without any problem.<\/p>\n
Mind you the Memeo WD Anywhere Backup is not perfect. I’m also using Microsoft SyncToy 1.4 which after syncing, left some bits of ghost files. Those little ghost files is to tell SyncToy which files has been synchronized. And once the syncing was done, those little bits of files would be deleted.<\/p>\n
Unfortunately WD Anywhere Backup would detect those ghost files and attempt to back it up only to find that it has been deleted. So in your WD Anywhere Backup log file you would see errors. This was kinda irritating, because you would have to clear all errors manually. But in the end it will show up again. It is not so big deal, except that when you hover your mouse over the WD Anywhere backup taskbar icon it would still show pending backup leaving you to wonder whether any backup was ever completed, although it was completed, just that the ghost files cause it to report backup is still in progress.<\/p>\n