Terry’s Computer Tips newsletters May 17th
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* Problems with Google Screensaver
A reader writes because the Google Photo Screensaver isn’t accessing all his photos…
* The Lighter Side of Technology
This week’s computer technology cartoon at Terry’s Computer Tips.
* Problem Installing Internet Explorer 8
Internet Explorer 8 is great, but what if you can’t install it…
* Synchronizing Two Hard Drives
The reader wants his office PC and home PC to work with up-to-date versions of the same files…
* My Security Software Recommendations
My recommendations for anti-virus, anti-spyware, firewall, and anti-spam software…
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Here is a way to synchronizing Two Hard Drives
This is possible if JJ is the only person accessing the files. If not, as you say, a file could be changed at same time and it is not easy to sync to changes to the file.
Here is how I do it.
- Install MS SyncToy on work PC (free download from MS, requires .Net)
- At work, create a Sync pair between the work hard drive and the external hard drive.
- Run SyncToy before leaving work. Only changed files are copied to the external hard drive.
- At home, if possible work from the external hard drive.
- If it is not possible to work from the external hard drive, install SyncToy on the home PC and create sync pair. Run SyncToy sync before starting and after finishing work.
- When returning to work, run SyncToy sync before being work.
- Repeat as necessary
This is a little bit tedious but does work as long as only JJ accesses the files. Working from the external hard drive when at home simplifies the process a lot (only need to run SyncToy sync at work).
SyncToy is the only free sync tools that I have found that syncs deletions.
JJ needs a cloud-based file synchronization / backup service.
I use SugarSync to automatically synchronize my data files between multiple computers.
Other possibilities include IDrive, Syncplicity, Windows Live Mesh (Beta), and Dropbox (Beta).