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 Thursday, August 04, 2005

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SyncToy

At long last, a decent free sync utility. Man I can’t tell you how excited I am about this. With 4 or so computers it’s a pain to have my photos, music etc on all of them. Today I use a very ad-hoc process.

No more! SyncToy rocks. I used it last night to sync 100 GB of WMA files from my desktop to my Media Center in “echo” mode. I love all the different modes it supports like subscribe, echo etc. Meets all my needs. I plan on using it at work to sync all my spec documents with our SharePoint server for offline access and some level of redundancy.

My only complaint with the product is that you cannot type in UNC paths to select folders, you need to browse your network, and there is no command line support. Hopefully these will be resolved in the final version.

I really have to end it to the Windows team. Between this PowerToy and the RAW Thumbnail PowerToy I’ve gotten two awesome upgrades to XP for free.

There is also a good white paper on SyncToy which is worth reading.

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Thursday, August 04, 2005 12:18:37 PM (Pacific Standard Time, UTC-08:00)
Have you looked at Beyond Compare?

http://www.beyondcompare.com

Only $30, and it does every kind of compare/sync you can imagine-- not only for files and folders, but for file diffs as well. I can't recommend it highly enough.
Jeff Atwood
Thursday, August 04, 2005 12:19:14 PM (Pacific Standard Time, UTC-08:00)
sorry:

http://www.scootersoftware.com/

that other link, uh, doesn't work :P
Jeff Atwood
Thursday, August 04, 2005 6:32:17 PM (Pacific Standard Time, UTC-08:00)
I loved the concept, but it hung on me while transferring files, then refused to cancel. This was after several crashes where it simply went *poof* without any trace of an error. And now since I had to install .NET 2.0 to get it to run, IIS is giving me fits (IIS errors *on the desktop*, out of memory, etc.) *sigh*. Next on my list is a little utility called sync (http://www.codeproject.com/vb/net/sync.asp).
Richard Tallent
Friday, August 05, 2005 5:35:35 PM (Pacific Standard Time, UTC-08:00)
I thought SyncToy is alright, but can't beat the auto syncing that is part of the current sync tool I use, Allway Sync. The latest beat has some funky Scheduling as well as the auto syncing (including When device is connected, every X mins or so many mins after the last file change happened).

Check out my review at:
http://mollyzine-podcasting.blogspot.com/2005/08/allway-sync-perfect-sync-tool-for.html

HTH
Molly
Phillip Molly Malone
Saturday, August 06, 2005 5:27:24 PM (Pacific Standard Time, UTC-08:00)
What does everyone here use for syncing bookmarks?
Leo Nelson
Sunday, August 07, 2005 9:28:52 PM (Pacific Standard Time, UTC-08:00)
Try FavoriteSync.com
Omar Shahine
Thursday, October 27, 2005 12:51:17 AM (Pacific Standard Time, UTC-08:00)
Just letting you know that my review has moved to:
http://www.mollyzine.com/mollyzine/2005/08/allway_sync_the.html

HTH
Molly
Phillip Molly Malone
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