Move It (PC CD)

 

 

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Collecting, editing and cataloguing your media files has been made significantly easier with this software. The program opens with a relatively blank - but customisable - screen listing your detected devices (hard drives, flash discs, media players or websites) down both sides. The software takes a little time to search and catalogue all the files on these but once this is done, should you wish to move files between one and another, you just open the necessary devices, highlight the respective files, and click on the transfer arrow.

The only issue really is that at this price, it's really not an essential purchase. The interface is simple and user-definable but on the flipside, uploads are quite slow. Unless you often transfer content from device-to-device and upload online, it's probably not worth a purchse. If you do struggle to keep on top of your media every day, it could prove to be money very well spent.

I've been a fan of Nero's products for many years, but this one just doesn't cut it. Its greatest failing is its over-confidence: it promises but doesn't deliver.

The booklet says this: "Simply connect your mobile device to your PC and Nero Move it transfers the files automatically in the ideal format." Which leaves the user few options if the program doesn't do that. Which, with my 2008 Samsung U600, it didn't (even though this phone is listed in the drop-down menu).

The over-confident notes continue: "Even if you're an inexperienced user, you have a clear overview of both the sources for your files and of the corresponding data volumes thanks to the software's intuitive interface." Even if I were not looking at a pair of empty boxes, I could see that the interface is far from clear and the instructions are ambiguous. An "inexperienced user", even with a device that the program could read, would be slightly confused. The phrase "You can access all pictures, videos and music files with no problem whatsoever" is likely to antagonise disappointed users who have no sense of irony.

Nero makes the mistake of assuming everything will work automatically and offering no options if it doesn't. They should know better than that.

I installed Move-It initially on a PC with Windows XP to SP2 and having all the system requirements listed and on the first run it immediately connected to install a 91Mb update to version 1.2.19.0 which repeated the whole installation procedure.

The second try to run it gave an error message "Nero Move it encountered a fatal error. If the error persists you may need to reinstall the application "

This was followed by "Critical Error in installation of Nero , please contact support" followed by numerous "NeroMoveit.exe has encountered a problem and needs to close. We are sorry for the inconvenience."

I then did a system restore but was unable to re-install from the original boxed CD only the Update I had downloaded. All the original problems remained and the program was uninstalled.

As I was asked to review this product I tried an installation on a higher specification PC running Windows Vista Ultimate which installed and updated as before but after it catalogued and listed the devices gave error messages, "Could not Copy avi to Creative Zen device before it to gave the familiar error message "NeroMoveit.exe has encountered a problem and needs to close. We are sorry for the inconvenience."

The support site for Nero Move-it gives a search on FAQ's but returns nothing on any word you put in so I have logged all this to the Nero Support team.

In 20 years of computing I have never had a piece of software this bad from Day One and trying two different PC's does indicate there is something badly wrong with it.

Should it be resolved I will update the review but for the moment I can't recommend you purchase this software.

Update to the above after Nero Support Response. The installation was problematic because already installed on both computers was an early version of Nero 7 Burning Software.

Although this was bought on Ebay as legal software it was in fact a serial number issued to many users and therefore now invalid due to installing Move It. The error messages did not convey this information but my Nero 7 is now invalid and will not run.

A link to the Nero support site downloaded a link to clean up and remove all installations and Move It was re-installed.

I have now found it to be very slow in initially cataloguing compared to Picasa for example and some of the thumbnails do not correspond to the images once opened. this could cause you to delete duplicates in error.

As stated initially all actions this software does can already be easily achieved by Windows and freeware file conversion such as Format Factory.

Update 2nd March from Nero Support regarding the above problem paticularly freezing up

This is a known problem that will be solved in one of our next updates.

Our development team is working hard on a solution for this.

We apologize for any inconvenience that may have been caused by this problem. Thank you for your understanding!

Please send the Windows Error Report to microsoft so that our developers can investigate this problem.

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2.0 out of 5 stars Move It on out .......
.... to the back of the cupboard!

This isn't necessarily a bad piece of software, it's just not essential and not as winderful as I thought it would be. Read more

Published 6 months ago by hmcni

3.0 out of 5 stars I kind of like (to) Move It, Move It.
The age of portable video is upon us and the range of portable devices available to watch it on has never been broader. But then neither has the range of video formats... Read more

Published on 23 Dec 2009 by LegendaryMrDude

1.0 out of 5 stars Quite moving...
...I cried. This crashed my PC upon installing it. I got beyond that after some hassle and got an update which seemed to want to endlessly install itself. Read more

Published on 8 Aug 2009 by D Deacon

2.0 out of 5 stars You can get more capable programmes on the net for less money
Nero Move It fails for the same reason every programme of this nature sold through channels such as Amazon does. Read more

Published on 19 Jun 2009 by Dr. W. E. Allen

3.0 out of 5 stars A little too much time spent on the look of it...
..where some more thought on the usability might have reaped more rewards. It certainly looks nice, but it suffers with poor performance speed and some of it his hardly intuituve... Read more

Published on 1 Jun 2009 by Mr BD

3.0 out of 5 stars A little confused
I must admit io got a little confused by what this product actually does. Having spent some time with it, it is essentially software that lets you organise all your videos, music,... Read more

Published on 24 April 2009 by Roger Fitch

4.0 out of 5 stars Good, but painfully slow
I got Move It to help me organise my music and move it between different PCs. I didn't have to many problems doing this; the interface is very user friendly and easy to use. Read more

Published on 19 April 2009 by Mr. A. Mcgregor

1.0 out of 5 stars Pointless
I got this software because I wanted something that would allow me to transfer and re-code different types of media files between different devices. Read more

Published on 14 April 2009 by Chris

2.0 out of 5 stars Why?
Had no problem installing this at all. I also disagree with other reviewers about no recognising icons, and so on. Read more

Published on 9 April 2009 by Scubaboy

3.0 out of 5 stars A Sound Piece of Software
Having installed the software, the first thing I noticed was the speed at which it performed. On a fairly average spec laptop (2 GB of RAM & Centrino Duo Processor) the software... Read more

Published on 1 April 2009 by Ken Smith

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