Reliable sync software?

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I'm looking at a fixed hard drive, a portable hard drive and my iPod and trying to get on top of updating them all without accidentally deleting strays & misfits...

What do you all use? I'm getting tired of erasing drive (old/backup) contents and just copying drive (new) contents across and it taking a little bit longer each time.

What's free that I can TRUST to automate this a bit?

(p.s. no, I absolutely do NOT trust iTunes with this. Don't try to convert me now, it wont happen).

ta!

― fandango (fandango), Friday, 21 July 2006 16:34 (nineteen years ago)

SYNK

― a name means a lot just by itself (lfam), Saturday, 22 July 2006 00:56 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.decimus.net/synk/

it can do automated NFS which is helpful

― a name means a lot just by itself (lfam), Saturday, 22 July 2006 00:57 (nineteen years ago)

ah... I forgot that detail. I need Windows gear please.

(I've owned a mac recently and well... there are other threads for that)

― fandango (fandango), Saturday, 22 July 2006 01:06 (nineteen years ago)

oh, in that case you may find this helpful:

http://www.efaucets.com/images/insinkerator/777ss.jpg

― a name means a lot just by itself (lfam), Saturday, 22 July 2006 01:12 (nineteen years ago)

yeah, i know, ripping on microsoft - easy and old

couldn't resist

― a name means a lot just by itself (lfam), Saturday, 22 July 2006 01:13 (nineteen years ago)

Whatever that is I'm sure it's more helpful than the OS X "Finder" ;-)

― fandango (fandango), Saturday, 22 July 2006 01:23 (nineteen years ago)

it's a garbage disposal

― a name means a lot just by itself (lfam), Saturday, 22 July 2006 02:56 (nineteen years ago)

get it?

― a name means a lot just by itself (lfam), Saturday, 22 July 2006 02:56 (nineteen years ago)

I don'[t know about th eIpod but I use ViceVersa to sync folders and sub folders of different drives.

http://www.tgrmn.com/

― Savin All My Love 4 u (Savin 4ll my (heart) 4u), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 02:24 (nineteen years ago)

anapod explorer comes highly recommended

― electric sound of jim [and why not] (electricsound), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 02:26 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.redchairsoftware.com/anapod/

― electric sound of jim [and why not] (electricsound), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 02:27 (nineteen years ago)

oh its not free anynmore. it used to be. I think i have an old installer somewhere for the free version.

― Savin All My Love 4 u (Savin 4ll my (heart) 4u), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 02:29 (nineteen years ago)

Microsoft SyncToy is really easy to use for straightforward file-syncing across two drives. It might not be ideal for your purposes though as it won't keep your iTunes library etc updated.

― ewmy (ewmy), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 10:46 (nineteen years ago)

thanks! will check these out.

"straightforward file-syncing across two drives" is exactly what I'm after :) The software that came with my drive just looks... dodgy.

I shouldn't have mentioned the iPod, I have no problem getting anything on/off that and I don't use iTunes so nothing required there really.

― fandango (fandango), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 12:17 (nineteen years ago)

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