Eugene.S

I can feel the pain behind every word you say. Have exactly the same overall experience regarding new and existing features in RDM for mac.

Do you think 5000 records is a huge database?

I also tried using Parallels and RDM for windows, but looks like macbook can't handle it very well.

Hello Michel,

thank you for your reply.

At the moment I am not looking for help, but rather wanted to check with others about their overall experience using RDM for mac.

Thanks.

Eugene

Hello,

I've been using RDM for mac since 2019 and originally great piece of software is getting worse and worse every year.

I am talking purely about RDM for mac, did not work much with windows version.

My adventure was as follows:

• Started using RDM for mac, organized all my connections and credentials using local file. Everything was working great and looking good.

• Credentials database and number of connections grew to about 1500, program started working much slower. Tried to move to Devolutions Online Drive, it did not improve the situation. After discussion with support, I've decided to try DVLS as datasource.

• Configured DVLS, started using it and at first it was working great. Datasource loading started working much better, database grew till about 3000 connection/credentials.

• After about couple of years performance drastically degraded. Datasource connection was not stable, especially when connecting/disconnecting to VPN. RDM was constantly loosing connection to datasource and I had to restart the software every time. Discussion with support concluded that my macbook is old, so I purchased a newer model with better performance overall.

• Another year of using RDM + DVLS, database grew to about 5000 entries. It became a nightmare to continue using RDM + DVLS. After several attempts to discuss with tech support regarding various issues (connection related and performance related), I've decided to switch back to a file as a datasource. Exported all connections from DVLS, powered it off, imported into a file, disabled lots of UI features trying to make RDM a little bit faster. And there was a slight hope. RDM with local file as datasource and tweaking UI settings became working more or less good. App stopped crashing, became more responsive.

• But every RDM update was brining new issues. Namely: copy/paste stopped working normally (this is so annoying), RDP does not keep connection well to linux machines, move item between folders stopped working, scheduled backup to a file was generating backup file every 10 seconds no matter what schedule is (not sure maybe it's fixed now, did not check recently).

• Latest contact to tech support suggested clearing cfg file brining all my UI tweaks back to defaults. Application is loading 30 seconds on first startup now. Copy/paste looks like working now, thanks for this. But 30 seconds loading time is something from another world, not too complicated UI and 65MB connections.db file. Outlook for mac is loading like 5 seconds with much heavier UI and larger database to load.

• Latest RDM for mac update completely broke RDP. Say hi to QA team, if it exists :)

• I am at the point where I am internally ready to switch to a different product, despite all financial and time investments into RDM and DVLS.

I could have added much more details here and there, but the overall trend is obvious. It is so sad to see this happen.

I would like to understand, is it just my experience (one off case), or is it the same for most of the users?

Please share your overall experience with RDM for mac.

Thanks.

Eugene

Hi Xavier,

I mean "persistent" mode. It is asking very often to log in with office 365 credentials and considering I have MFA from Office 365, I have to enter code every time I log in.

Any workaround to reduce the number of logins would be great. Would be nice to have something like trust this device for N days.

Thanks.

Eugene

Are there any plans to add the same feature to RDM for OS X?

Thanks.