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Microsoft's new SyncToy

I just installed Microsoft's SyncToy.

Wow, what a great start.  I can't wait to see features being added.  Here are ideas I would like to see:

  • An Addins/plugin architecture (so that we can build our own addons).
  • An automatic update (scheduler style).  Or real time (FileSystemWatcher)
  • The ability to sync between to sites that are not connected !  For example, synchronize 2 Gig of files between home and work via a single (or more) USB sticks of various capacity.  Even if takes 5 days to complete, once completed, no worries.

For the last point, that would be great to synchronize different applications and settings between various locations.  I'm already using plaxo to synchronize my contacts in outlook and SyncIt for my favorites.

Pat

Print | posted on Monday, August 29, 2005 10:45 AM |

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# re: Microsoft's new SyncToy

Synctoy will indeed synchronize two (or in my case 4) computers by carrying a portable USB hard drive (I use Iomega mini 40 G) or a USB flash drive. Only problem I have encountered was with the change to Standard Time from DST the file time stamps were changed and the program tried to re-sync over 5000 files! I worked around this by setting all 4 computers to Hawaii time which does not change with DST.
11/2/2005 3:14 PM | Dr. Bob
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# "exclude subfolders" won´t work here

hi,
if i uncheck some subfolder to exclude for the sync process, nothing happens.
even when i uncheck all subfolders, synctoy updates every folder.
thats strange.
does anybody know how to fix it?
rassnik
2/16/2006 8:50 AM | rassnik
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