My dream would be for Emplode to just "cache" the data from the last couple of successful synchs and allow you to force that stuff back onto the empeg in a pinch,

MY dream would be to have a utility in Emplode that would simply mirror the entire contents of the empeg, including database, to my local hard drive. The resulting output file would not have to be editable, playable, changeable, displayable or otherwise usable in any way -- just so long as I could mirror it back to the empeg to do a complete restore. I think that a file of this nature might be exempt from empeg's justifiable concerns about enabling piracy. The program could even be made so that it would only restore to the empeg that wrote it (same serial #).

If you wanted to take it a step further, make it a "smart" mirror that would skip over any files unchanged since the last backup. The first backup you did would take a long time, but subsequent backups would only add new additions to the backup file, and over-write modified files (i.e., the database files). And a "really smart" mirror process might do a full synchronization -- add new files, delete old files, update changed files -- but this might be overkill.

I would pay money for such a program, either as an enhancement to Emplode or a standalone utility, and I suspect there are hundreds of other people out there on the bbs who would do likewise.

Since my programming skills do not encompass much more than writing a "Hello, World" screen display in Q-Basic (and I'd have to find my Q-Basic book to even remember how to do that!), I leave the implementation of this "dream" to my betters. (Are you listening, Frank?)

tanstaafl.

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