ot: sync drives help please....

ushere wrote on 9/1/2013, 9:07 PM
ok, after looking around it seems there's a plethora of sync'ing programs, from m$'s synctoy through to expensive 3rd party solutions... all of which seem to offer good value / funcionality...

however, i have a situation('s) where the FILES i want to sync are in DIFFERENT folders on different drives, eg. a file might be in d:/video clips/rural/horses.m2t on one drive, and on another in f:/stock/outback/horses.m2t - same file but different folders...

it seems all the sync progs i've looked at expect the same structure on both drives? sort of folder THEN file based.

is there any FILE based prog that'll simply look for the same / missing files ignoring directory structure?

or do they do this anyway and i'm just over thinking the problem? (not unusual;-()

Comments

Steve Mann wrote on 9/1/2013, 11:27 PM
Your best solution would be to sync the individual folders to a third drive. When I am finished with a project, I use SyncBack to sync the work folders from the various PC's that were involved with the project to a single external drive that I move from PC to PC.
ushere wrote on 9/2/2013, 12:07 AM
hi steve....

that's what i normally do - my projects / files are all stored in the same structure across ALL MY drives, however, i often give clients / friends copies of various files, but on a number of occasions they've 'rearranged' the folders to suit their needs / preferences so when i've come back to 'update' them at a later stage their structure no longer matches....

i know, i know, tell them not to, but unfortunately that's easier said than done.

i was thinking of going back to amiga days and directory opus, which iirc would 'match' file names across drives...

rs170a wrote on 9/2/2013, 4:07 AM
Leslie, Directory Opus is still alive and kicking :)
edit: I had no idea they were from Australia.

Mike
ushere wrote on 9/2/2013, 8:08 AM
wow, neither did i!?

just as well i don't have to dig out my old amiga 2000 with bt2 on it ;-)

spring has sprung down here - as i sit with my 30.6 waiting for bambi to turn up for another bout of distruction....
gpsmikey wrote on 9/2/2013, 10:35 AM
Venison for dinner you say ?? :-)

Another vote for Syncback (I have the Pro version) from 2BrightSparks - I don't think it can handle files from two different paths although it may. They have a fairly good support forum and may be able to answer that question there
http://www.2brightsparks.com/bb/viewforum.php?f=15

mikey
ushere wrote on 9/2/2013, 6:20 PM
one hopes so ;-)

that's gents, will look into syncback and opus.

i'm begining to think it's time i stopped thinking about making life easier for my clients and concentrated on making it simpler for myself - do as you're told or else....