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Five Best File Syncing Tools
lifehacker.com — If you work and play on multiple computers in the course of a week, keeping your important files in sync can be difficult. The day may come when you've got access to all of your files and data straight from the cloud, but until that day, a solid file syncing application is just what the doctor ordered.
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- drex8, on 07/17/2008, -0/+3This page on Lifehacker http://lifehacker.com/398602/best-file-syncing-too ... where the Hive-Five requests recommendations for the best file sycing tools from its readers, has more info and other sync softwares mentioned. An interesting read for anybody interested to find out their own best syncing solution based on their needs, instead of the five recommended by Lifehacker.
Some of the ones I seen mentioned over there, other than these 5 products:
1) Allway Sync http://allwaysync.com/index.html
2) GoodSync http://www.goodsync.com/
3) SugarSync http://www.sugarsync.com/
4) Jungle Disk http://www.jungledisk.com/index.aspx Can be used both as backup and syncing solution
5) Rsync and Grsync (GUI for rsync)
http://samba.anu.edu.au/rsync/
http://www.opbyte.it/grsync/
6) Super Flexible File Synchronizer http://www.superflexible.com/
7) Unison http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~bcpierce/unison/
8) Total Commander: It synchronizes directories
http://www.ghisler.com/
9) Free Commander: Free version of Total Commander
http://www.freecommander.com/
10) Beyond Compare http://www.scootersoftware.com/
And many others. And some of these, like Allway Sync, and GoodSync are worth take a look.
You can also check this another (recently old) article from LifeHacker about free ways to synchronize folders between different computers: http://lifehacker.com/372175/free-ways-to-synchron ...- drex8, on 07/17/2008, -0/+1P.S.: How did the comment system added all these extra line spaces. I re-edited the comment, but they still show up. Bah!
- ElBeh, on 07/17/2008, -0/+1Microsoft Groove is pretty good; it came with the MS Office 2007 Suite.
- Portelly, on 07/17/2008, -0/+1DropBox Rules
- wozkol, on 07/18/2008, -0/+0I'm looking for a tool do synchronize my linux files on my dual boot Vista. Any sugestions? (wondering Linux DropBox client)
- ikkekietje, on 07/18/2008, -0/+1They are working on it, I don't think it's out yet.
- ikkekietje, on 07/18/2008, -0/+1DropBox it is!!!!!!!
- jeroendemiranda, on 08/10/2008, -0/+1useful overview, selecting one or two of these tools
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