Posted on 12/31/2016 6:38:53 PM PST by Still Thinking
For years I used a folder sync utility, I think shareware, but have changed computers a couple times, so no longer have it. I've looked at all the usual shareware sites (download.cnet.com, tucows, softpedia, etc.) and can't seem to find this one. Googled, etc.
The things that I remember that might ring a bell for someone are the compares could be saved as "jobs" and there was a list of recent jobs, so you could redo the same compare/synch again later. Also, if you did a compare on a directory with subdirectories, the comparison display would highlight in different colors to indicate files on left but not right, right but not left, newer on one side, etc., which is typical, but you could expand and collapse the tree view, and the highlighting would inherit to the directory level. So you could see a tree, and if there were differences only within a couple subdirectories, those would highlight, and you could drill in.
I've tried a few of the ones I've found while looking, but I don't like any of them as well, and none of them seem to have that feature, so I'm really trying to remember what this one was called.
Anyone know the one I'm talking about?
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Thanks, everyone!
Zip Copy! Managed to boot a machine I haven’t touched in years and it was still on there. Still couldn’t find it online, so I sneaker netted it over from that machine (and just barely — it was a laptop where only half the screen worked)
I had been using ExamDiff for directory sync, which I’ve used for a long time for diffing files, but when you compare directories, it doesn’t collapse a deeply nested tree and still show you where the differences are, or I don’t know how to do it. It’s just a flat list of 8 bazillion different files with no context.
Anyway, you all have given me a lot of nice options on utilities to check out. I’ll do that and see if I like any of those better.
No, chrome means the borders and other fringy parts of the UI. Imagine if Word was 80% borders and toolbars and so on, and the document windows was only 20%. That’s chrome.
I like SyncToy, it’s actually written my Microsoft though they state they will not support it. OTOH there are two versions, so in a sense they continue to support.
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What aggravates me is Windows won’t let me use wildcards to find/rename multiple files, I had to go find a 3rd party utility for that.
Rsync is the best tool for syncing directories locally or remotely. Not sure if there is a windows version.
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Directory Sync Utilities ... PING!
Thanks to Still Thinking for the ping!!
I use: Synchronicity
great and light weight.
Bump for later, thank you veddy mooch.
Or just get an old one booted up...if possible.
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