From: Andrew Webber (awebber_at_wwwebbers.com)
Date: Fri Jul 13 2001 - 21:52:22 EDT
On Wed, 11 Jul 2001 09:08:59 -1000, David Ross wrote:
>> What software do the experts here recommend for syncing
>> my Thinkpad with my desktop machine?
>
>I like Vice Versa at www.tgrmn.cjb.net - I think there are
>more sophisticated programs out there, but this one has
>all the options I need, works in all versions of Windows,
>is reasonably fast, and is free.
Thanks, I looked at their site and it looks good (one point though,
according to their site, the free version doesn't support Win2K).
On Wed, 11 Jul 2001 18:53:54 -0400, Tom A. Trottier wrote:
>You can use XCOPY to keep the files in sync.
>
>e.g.
>xcopy c:\data\*.* d:\data\ /d /e /h /y
>xcopy d:\data\*.* c:\data\ /d /e /h /y
>will keep all the files in sync with the latest version
>on both - assuming:
> you always execute this command before moving to the
> other machine.
> the "data" directory tree has all the files you want
> kept in sync.
>
>I've used this regularly to keep my c: drive data in sync
>with my network directory.
This looks like a good solution for getting new or updated files
onto both machines. What about deleted files?
andrew [awebber_at_wwwebbers.com]
...re-addicted to DC since 2001-06-10.
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