Home 2012 Synchronization: yuck!
Hi. I am disappointed with Home 2012 Synchronization. I added a pair of folders to synchronize and away it went, without warning! Scary! I have 30,000 photographs on a local hard drive and I keep a mirror of this on an NAS drive. Home 2012 started working away and I had no idea what it was doing. There are no settings. No way of indicating which side should be the master and which side the copy. If the copy side was missing a file, would it have deleted it on the master side? Who knows. Does it only sync deltas as of setting up the sync or does it sync all? This all needs to be documented and options presented to the user.
Peter
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Wow, that is a serious bug. Very serious actually because replacing that file is a natural next step after an accidental delete.
I have run into a couple of minor ones this afternoon: won't let me select a sync folder - tells me it is already in use (which is certainly isn't, not even as a subfolder of something that is), and locks ups when selecting sync folders (Windows tells me program has stopped working and needs to blow it away). Sync also hung up twice on me when I tried to delete a sync entry in the list of syncs.
I also don't like the way it keeps wanting to guide me to buy online backup storage at acronis.com.
Hmmm... dud product.
Peter
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Did some reading and found Allway Sync. It is free for personal use with a limitation on the number of files sync'd. Has a lot of nice features. Worked first time. Nicely sync'd up 45,000 files. I've got it set to propagate additions and modifications made to the master side but never to delete from the mirror. Peter
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Peter,
Give a try to SyncBack if you care about backing up versions that are deleted upon sync and being able to specify retention rules for these versions.
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I, also, endorse SyncBack. It can also work across networks or sync to an online server.
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Got SyncBack installed and I like it! Better than AllSync.
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I use SyncBack Pro all the time and highly recommend it. I also use Beyond Compare and also highly recommend it as well.
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Beyond Compare is great. I use that too.
For faster searches than the Windows 7 built in search I use Everything at http://www.voidtools.com/ (free and great) and for keeping track of files on cd, dvd disks, usb sticks, usb drives and both of my computers, I use Cathy, which is also free, and fast at http://download.cnet.com/1770-20_4-0.html?searchtype=downloads&query=ca…
Sorry about the long url. You can just google for Cathy catalog disks.
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