How Do You Keep Files and Folders in Sync?
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It’s a routine task to copy or move a file from one location on your computer to another. When it comes to synchronizing files in one folder with another folder can be hard without the right software. When it’s another machine that you’re wanting to move or copy a folder to, you have to have that same software on the other machine. See where I’m going? It can get to be a huge hassle. Thankfully, Synkron can help. Synkron is a multi-platform Qt application designed for synchronizing two or more folders.
Apart from doing synchronizations, it provides many other additional features. The user interface of Synkron is divided into several sections: Synchronize, Multisync, SyncView, Scheduler, Restore, Blacklist and Filters. To switch between these sections, use the toolbar.
- Synchronize multiple folders.
- Tabs allow you to have more synchronizations running at once.
- Periodical synchronizations automatically sync your folders in selected intervals.
- Restore files, which were overwritten during the synchronization.
- Add files and folders to black list to make sure they won’t be synchronized in the future.
- Make schedules and backup using multisync.
It’s amazing how detailed this program is. As I pointed out, it’s fully open-source. With this much power, it’s almost overwhelming. I’ve been looking for a simple way to sync multiple folders and files across my network, on many different operating systems.
How many computers do you have at home, and how often do you back up? What happens if your backup is messed up? Redundancy is a good thing. You should be able to sync your folders and information together with ease, so that you always have access to it. If you’re looking for a good tool to do this, make sure you check out Synkron.
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10 Comments
Matt Smith Tech
October 25th, 2008
at 7:49am
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Kissa
October 24th, 2008
at 8:35pm
I used http://www.foldershare.com for a long time and for minor things still do. But I found http://www.sugarsync.com and love it. It is also a backup system that has a primary server that all computers sync to almost instantly. It’s still in beta though. I have all the same bookmarks on all of my 4 computers too.
Matt Smith
October 24th, 2008
at 8:46pm
The only files that I have to worry about syncing are the files on my flash drive. Most of the time, I usually just do it manually. I might give Synkron a shot, though. Sounds interesting.
Snick
October 24th, 2008
at 9:22pm
I found that SK was a bit too much work for what it’s really needed for, if that makes sense?
I found that using FolderShare (www.foldershare.com), was even better than this. Not only can you sync folders on a network, but across the web, or with friends that you allow into the folders to be sync’d.
Few other ones that were handy as well that I tried, iFolder & PowerFolder.
They too run on Mac/Linux/Win.
Ryan Kenneth Hamel (techhelper1)
October 24th, 2008
at 9:25pm
what about using rsync mac and linux and windows powertoy sync tool
Eric Konesky (BigE)
October 24th, 2008
at 10:06pm
Well it looks like a really cool app i havent gotten to try it out…it would be nice if there was a DEB installation file because even some debian-based linux users dont know to compile from the source or convert RPMs and i am lazy sometimes other then that i will probably try it to night and i might post another comment
Aryeh Goretsky
October 25th, 2008
at 12:35am
Hello,
I have had very good experiences using 2BrightSparks’ SyncBackSE to keep my notebook and desktop computers in sync with each other.
Regards,
Aryeh Goretsky
widde
October 25th, 2008
at 6:53am
I have some fun with Apples MobileME. It helps me a good deal to keep my Macs and Windows Machines in line.
Michael B. Johnson
October 26th, 2008
at 5:31pm
Windows Commander has a pretty good synchronization tool. [a.k.a. Total Commander.]
(www.ghisler.com)
Ninesvnsicks
October 28th, 2008
at 6:47pm
I don’t usually need to keep files in sync I have an OS drive with my operating systems and 2 other drives for games and music and they are backed up on my network drive. But if you have everything in one folder then this application does sound nice.