Help Needed -- Trying to Remember the Name of a Directory Sync Utility

December 31, 2016 | Self

[TomGuy]

Two I use frequently are:

Pure Sync and OzSync

https://www.jumpingbytes.com/

http://ozsync.software.informer.com/

[SunTzuWu]

Bookmark.

[Still Thinking]

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.

[Still Thinking]

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.

[spel_grammer_an_punct_polise]

Snapfiles shareware/freeware, etc, will open in a new windows.

[fastrock]

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.

[Mr Radical]

bookmark

[FrogMom]

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.

[zeugma]

Rsync is the best tool for syncing directories locally or remotely. Not sure if there is a windows version.

[DocRock]

Bookmark

[dayglored]

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!!

[killermosquito]

I use: Synchronicity

great and light weight.

[Brandybux]

Bump for later, thank you veddy mooch.

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

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.