Not a mission-critical solution

Update 2021:
Despite the issues I discussed last year (still present for some hosts) I do continue to use this plugin where it works, because it’s simpler than many others. So overall I am grateful for its existence. But, I am disappointed that it is called clone/migrate. It actually merges source into destination! Which is almost never what I want. I wish they would make that more clear in their docs.

Original 2020:
First of all, when any tool fails to perform it’s promised duty, it should emphatically NOT:
1. do part of the job and then fail, requiring the user to figure out the impossibly difficult task of finding all the files it imported and deleting them, so they can start over and do the whole thing right.
2. it should fail with a more helpful message than “migrate failed”. Yea, uh, we knew that. How about Why? And how to fix it?
3. On that same note, if it failed to migrate, why does the failure dialog offer a big “visit site” button? Completely stupid.
4. Report wrong file counts. In my case, it reported 900MB files when I have 6GB files.
5. Report freaky impossible “files remaining” ratio: in my case, about half way through the migrate, the “files transferred” number passed the “total file” number, and just kept climbing. What??

I have had this plugin fail on two different hosts, so it does not seem an anomaly.

• This topic was modified 3 years, 3 months ago by brucetm. Reason: Update with 2021 experiences