Drive Snap for Drive Snapshot

I linked to that thread above, but the download link is dead. Probably a long time dead.

 

I was one of several testers at the time and it showed great promise as a doable reliable DS Front End. However i think @markymoo might have rushed things just a bit too fast for many when he mentioned it would be a paid version only early on and that caused a swift recoil from it unfortunately. Still his concept turned productive might have been a bit premature in demanding a paid version so soon. Nonetheless i was fully onboard but the built in cut-off test release was too brief IMO.

 

I did a bit of searching, but it seems it was exclusive to Wilders.

 

Mark spent over a year developing Drive Snap. It was available as a trial for a few months before he asked $10 for a license fee. He only sold ten licenses so he gave up.

Selling software is difficult. People like "free". For example, the Macrium Reflect thread has significantly fewer posts since the announcement that the free version will be discontinued.

 

That's sad, Brian.

 

Mark and I exchanged quite a few PMs. It is sad. He took it badly.

 

That's so sadly true @Brian K - @markymoo fashioned such an excellent software on his own effort, time, and dime. I look at it this way. That front end for DS might have gained traction and managed to compensate him reasonably but if i remember not many folks here at Wilders, even back then, used Drive Snapshot to the degree to meet expectations. For us Imaging Diehards and DS loyals, Drive Snap offered us something very useful and long missing in our use of DS. However we were not exactly the ideal niche group when many others were using & satisfied with other mainstream imaging programs.

I know how it must looked for @markymoo and that, but we are the only one's who saw promise and for him perhaps a future for Drive Snap. Personally i thought it was the best freelance designed front end for DS ever.

 

@Brian K @EASTER He should have introduced it to a wider audience than just Wilders.
I think it has lots of potential.

 

It would be interesting if it was around now, how still vital & useful it could be for DS after all these years.

 

This post and this post by markymoo pretty well described what Drive Snap did.
It basically put most of the Drive Snapshot command line features into a GUI as well as built in scheduler functionality.

I was aware of at least some of the hidden functionality via these switches.

 

Yes and @markymoo integrated other command line features into a neat set of user friendly choices that actually worked exactly as intended. We might even say that he automated the DS process for user's of DS in saving time & effort.