re: SyncToy 2.0

Larry Parks — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 19:01:21 GMT

I have had the same fears, but today I took the step similiar to what you described above.

Briefly, I have a laptop (Vista x64), a desktop computer at home (XP), and a WD 500G My Book 'remote' hard drive. I have had two hard drives on the home computer crash and thus re-built. The first time it crashed I lost a whole year of digital photos. So, back-up is high on my list.

This is what I would like to do and I think SyncToy can accomplish this. I want both computers to have the same contents in (for example) four different folders: My Documents, Music, Favorites, Pictures. The desktop is processing the final folder pair now (Pictures) and writing it to the WD My Book HD. When this is finished, I will connect the WD HD to this laptop, run the SyncToy from here and have it compare the contents and update the laptop and the WD HD. In this second step, I will get some new files from the laptop to the WD HD, so I will have to go back to the desktop computer an resync, so the added files from the laptop to the WD HD will be written to the desktop computer. After this, I should have 3 copies of my data (I'm hoping).

I didn't come up with this idea until I read you note above. Thanks for the info and wish me luck.

re: SyncToy 2.0

Aldo — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 07:57:43 GMT

Your post has really inspired me. I can totally identify with you. Synctoy has made my life easier. I'm a Database/Visual programmer.