Most welcome are options like “Don’t backup files larger than” a specified number of megabytes, and the ability to exclude files by wildcards, such as *.log or *.zip. SpiderOak provides a host of backup tweaks for those who like to restrict backups beyond just selecting certain files. Essentially, in Basic mode, you decide what gets backed up based on SpiderOak’s broad-based categories. If you switch to Basic mode, the prefab checkboxes take up the main window, and the search functions disappear. You can also search for files across your entire drive, and add external drives to the backup. Prefab checkboxes with bright colors to their left let you pick major categories in the user folder, while the main browser window provides granular selection of folders and files. The backup selection has a beautiful threaded interaction, so that as you proceed through selecting and deselecting files, the Storage Bar at the bottom calculates how many files you will place on its service-and whether you’ll need to buy more storage from SpiderOak to do so. For more-experienced users, that geekiness is an advantage, revealing otherwise-hidden folders that may contain files and nested folders that require backup when you’re not using disk mirroring (as with, say, Backupīackup Preferences: SpiderOak lets you set some fiddly backup parameters, such as excluding files over a certain size to reduce bandwidth use.The backup selection process remains as wonky as it was years ago-it feels more like a Unix directory listing than it does a Mac-style user-friendly approach to selecting files, especially when viewed in Advanced mode. There are other rough spots, too, such as the inability to paste a password into the login field and to copy a sharing URL when its text is selected. Instead, you must select Show from the menu, which reveals a floating window that can get lost under other application windows. Though SpiderOak puts its colorful icon in the system menu bar (you can change it to black if you find it too colorful), the application doesn’t show up in the Dock. My initial nitpick is that the application doesn’t behave like an application.
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