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Help Needed -- Trying to Remember the Name of a Directory Sync Utility
December 31, 2016
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Posted on 12/31/2016 6:38:53 PM PST by Still Thinking
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To: Still Thinking
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12/31/2016 7:22:01 PM PST
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TomGuy
To: Still Thinking
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posted on
12/31/2016 7:25:40 PM PST
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SunTzuWu
To: pluvmantelo; time4good; day10; B4Ranch; fastrock; smokingfrog; E. Pluribus Unum; TomGuy; ...
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.
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12/31/2016 7:50:35 PM PST
by
Still Thinking
(Freedom is NOT a loophole!)
To: time4good
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.
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12/31/2016 7:52:34 PM PST
by
Still Thinking
(Freedom is NOT a loophole!)
To: Still Thinking
To: Still Thinking
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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12/31/2016 8:47:04 PM PST
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fastrock
(It is never right to do wrong, even if sanctioned by law. - Abe Lincoln)
To: Mr Radical
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01/01/2017 2:44:18 AM PST
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Mr Radical
(In times of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act)
To: Still Thinking
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.
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01/01/2017 7:44:21 AM PST
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FrogMom
To: Still Thinking
Rsync is the best tool for syncing directories locally or remotely. Not sure if there is a windows version.
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01/01/2017 8:45:44 AM PST
by
zeugma
(I'm going to get fat from all this schadenfreude)
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01/01/2017 10:45:48 AM PST
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DocRock
(And now is the time to fight! Peter Muhlenberg)
To: Still Thinking; Abby4116; afraidfortherepublic; aft_lizard; AF_Blue; amigatec; AppyPappy; ...
Looks like you got it figured out (Zip Copy) before I had a chance to ping the list. :-)
Directory Sync Utilities ... PING!
You can find all the Windows Ping list threads with FR search: just search on keyword "windowspinglist".
Thanks to Still Thinking for the ping!!
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01/03/2017 4:46:48 AM PST
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dayglored
("Listen. Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government.")
To: Still Thinking
I use: Synchronicity
great and light weight.
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01/03/2017 5:28:49 AM PST
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killermosquito
(Buffalo, Detroit (and eventually France) is what you get when liberalism runs its course.)
To: killermosquito
Bump for later, thank you veddy mooch.
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posted on
01/03/2017 10:41:37 AM PST
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Brandybux
(Oportet ministros manus lavare antequam latrinam relinquent.)
To: Still Thinking
Do you have the boot drive(s) from any of these previous computers available? If so, slave one on to your new one and then browse the directory structure (PRogram Files) for the name.
Or just get an old one booted up...if possible.
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01/04/2017 11:22:35 AM PST
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Bloody Sam Roberts
(The future doesn't belong to the fainthearted. It belongs to the brave. - - Ronaldus Magnus Reagan)
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