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Article #429Re: File synchronising across drives or directories
From: Sido
Date: Wed, 01 Sep 2004 14:01
Date: Wed, 01 Sep 2004 14:01
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Hey Phred, I haven't used SyncBack but I have been using SmartSync Pro (http://www.smsync.com) for quite a while and am very happy with it. Highly recommended. HTH Sido. ppnerkDELETETHIS@yahoo.com (Phred) wrote in news:2p6daoFhjfa3U1@uni- berlin.de: > G'day mates, > > Just stumbled across a program called SyncBack being promoted in the > latest Tudogs newsletter to hit these shores, and that reminded me > that I still haven't managed to find a good, simple, file > synchronisation program like the old Australian Two Disks of a couple > of decades ago. (It was actually meant for working with A: and B:, > but you could fool it into handling directories on C: to some extent > by judicious use of the current directory and the SUBST command -- all > said with that pervasive proviso "IIRC". 8-) > > Has anyone tried this SyncBack thing? > http://www.2brightsparks.com/syncback/syncback-hub.html > > As common these days, it comes in two flavours: free and pro. > (Or at least that appears to be the intention but the pro version is > still in development AFAICS on the site.) > > The free version has the decency to provide a "no install" option, > which is encouraging in these times of bloated rude software. > > I'd be pleased to hear of any user experience with the product (now at > version 3.2 by the look of it). > > Thanks for your time. > > Cheers, Phred. >
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X-Google-Thread: 112049,8d064854eb1b25da X-Google-Thread: 108c83,8d064854eb1b25da X-Google-Attributes: gid112049,gid108c83,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!g2news1.google.com!news2.google.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!not-for-mail From: Sido <someone@somewhere.com> Newsgroups: alt.comp.freeware,aus.computers Subject: Re: File synchronising across drives or directories Date: 1 Sep 2004 14:01:42 GMT Lines: 39 Message-ID: <2pm325Flpu1gU1@uni-berlin.de> References: <2p6daoFhjfa3U1@uni-berlin.de> X-Trace: news.uni-berlin.de LQtXtD06quJoqdBqi/dFLw2zxo/PEBLwefwvREMybg7qYEGv6j User-Agent: Xnews/06.08.25