Of course, before running any kind of sync program, you want to make sure both computers’ time/date clocks are set to the same date and time. (Regularly syncing both to Internet Time should be good enough; I think FreeFileSync’s default is to ignore time differences of less than 2 seconds.). Manual sync option is default in all of these sync tools, but few provide option to schedule folder sync for a given time or after defined time periods. Go through the list of these best free software to sync folders and get to know How to sync folders.
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There are plenty of reasons why one user wants to use a sync (acronym for synchronization) software utility. For example, an user may want to get a copy of files, which can be pictures, images, audio, music, videos, documents and etc. from source location and duplicate to another place, or there is a need to keep files in two storage locations exactly in sync and always the same. In some cases, sync files across different hard disks provide easy mean to backup or RAID alternative.
To easily synchronize file and avoid the hassle of manually copying and managing files in many different folders and drives, a synchronization application software or utility is needed. SyncToy is a free PowerToy that provides an easy to use, automatic, highly customizable program that helps users to do the heavy lifting involved with the copying, moving, and synchronization of different directories, all in graphical user interface (GUI).
SyncToy sync utility works by requiring users to create “folder pair” (set of two folders) that represents the two folders (“left” and “right” folders) to be compared and synchronized. These folders can be on the local drive, on an external device such as a USB flash drive, portable hard disk and digital camera, on Flash memory card such as CF, SD, MMC, Memory Stick and xD via card reader, on mapped network drive, or on a network share from another computer. Best of all, SyncToy can manage multiple sets of folders at the same time, each can be configured to act in different rules or actions.
Features of SyncToy 1.4
One major minus on SyncToy is it won’t watch the folder designated to sync and synchronize automatically whenever there is any change detected. The best alternative is to schedule SyncToy to run automatically using Task Scheduler. In Windows, most users will probably notice that drive letter assignment of external drives, especially USB Flash Key or digital camera will change. SyncToy can handle the ‘jumping’ and changed drive letters problem by looping through all existing drive letter assignments and attempts to locate the correct synchronized folders, which contains SyncToy[ID].bin file. If the original synced folders are located, the new drive letter will be associated with the folder pair and the folder pair will be executed.
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For users who want more examples and usage guides to visualize and learn how and what’s the best practice to use SyncToy, download the
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Update: SyncToy v2.0 beta
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